"Auction price bug?" comment by Torley Linden

In a threadd titled "Auction price bug?" Torely Linden kindly wrote:


04-13-2006, 11:50 PM #2
Torley Linden
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Posts: 12,683 Heyo [name removed to protect the innocent], thanks to Ryan Linden, I found out what happened here: those auctions went up for 48 hours but were not bid on. Usually they come up with a "bid now" link. The auction is does not start until that link is clicked and a first bid made.

All should be good now, if you see more like this please holler! "

Wasn't he essentially told to go ahead and bid on them, and how to do it. So he does it, others do it, and then they get banned. How's that a scandal / exploit by a player? On yahoo, you type in the name of the person you want in the url to find them. Isn't that simply customary practice on the internet? And here, an official "Linden" explained how to do it. There's no.. oh, don't do that; that's against the rules; that's an "exploit" in the system.

Later,

MarcWoebegone Au

Huh? How did you get that from anything Torley said?

I agree, she also said:
She is refering to the auction page, you need to bid first on a sim that is in that list before the auction "starts."

Plus you're one of the people that bid on them, so if you want to defend yourself, talk to the Lindens. They will help you more than we could.