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Repeal limitation on number of verified accounts!

Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
Posts: 7,750
09-01-2006 16:34
I'll ask this again, as I have yet to hear a straight answer from Linden Labs.

WHY is the current limit of 2 accounts per payment method and 5 accounts per household still being selectively enforced? Especially when this policy is documented NOWHERE in the TOS or in the registration signup process any more? And especially when one can create as many UNVERIFIED accounts as one pleases, simply by refusing to provide credit card info or to pay Linden Labs for the account?

It makes no sense at all that I can create 100 untracable unverified alts, and not get charged a single penny, but if I create six or more verified alts and am willing to pay for each of them, I have to risk Linden Labs ordering me to pick which five I want to keep, and having the rest disabled permenantly. What possible purpose does that restriction serve, now that new accounts get no weekly stipend? Why penalize people for providing payment information and paying for their additional alts? I can lie and give pure garbage on the enrollment forms, and can rob Linden Labs of the signup fee for each alt, and most likely get away with that forever. But if I tell the truth and pay them money, they limit me. WHY?

I am a roleplayer. I like acting, and I like playing different roles for different occasions. I would HAPPILY pay $10 USD per alt to add another dozen or so of the characters that I would like to roleplay to the choices that I have in SL. WHY should Linden Labs refuse to allow me that option? If I give my payment ID for every one of them, then Linden Labs can track them all as a group. If I misuse one or more of my alts for griefing or for deceptive business practices, they can nail me easily.

The only alternative a roleplayer has now, if they want more than 5 roles that they can play, is to give completely false information in signup, and to refuse to give payment information. And then they risk losing all but 5 accounts if they ever get 'caught' doing that, and if some Linden decides to selectively enforce a rule that gets blatantly ignored on almost every griefer account that had ever existed.

REPEAL THAT LIMITATION. The vote for supporting the effort to do so is in my signature.
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
09-05-2006 10:41
Thanks, I'll forward this on to see what else we've got.
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