Electric Sheep Company's Searchbot Answers Go Here.

If its true Linden Labs decides to "handle" the coming of large scale bots, by favoring the bots and bot creators. As it apears they will...

Then there supposed protection of "banning" this or that bot from yoru land needs to be improved.

Since people are so loathe to Flag the Bots, then we should be able to Flag our land.

adding a "NO BOTS" flag that Bots can easily identify before they mine your data. A responsibly run bot will be set up to treat a Parcel with the "No Bots" flag on as if its banned.

Nice attempt to try to avoid my question. You work for Electric Sheep too?

I will ask it again:

A simple yes or no to this question is all I need to know: is your bot is scanning every object on the grid?

No.

The problem, Har, with your use of the phrase "on track" is that what you mean really is "back in line with my way of thinking". This spoils any opportunity for reasoned debate.

Is this an answer? Is this an Electric Sheep person who knows, who has just said that the searchbot doesn't scan all the items?

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I think Forsetti basically admitted it does scan all items on places its not banned. This is allowed by the TOS/CS, I guess.

Its not Meade's bot though- I do not think - and she was responding to someone who said it was.

No. Objects in private sims that the searchbot can't enter... or doesn't know about will not be scanned.

Also, (and this appears to be a server limitation, not a client limitation) prims smaller than 0.1 x 0.1 x 0.1 don't seem to get downloaded to the client unless the avatar is within 30m or so.

Likely the searchbot is moving along swiftly enough and in wide enough of a search pattern that many small objects will just be completely missed.

I have no doubt that their searchbot DOES scan everything that appears within range of its view however.

This answer is based upon an understanding of secondlife and bot theory... I am not affiliated with esc in any deliberate way.

Voice is optional... I'm just saying that if you got a bot on voice-chat you'd know immediately it wasn't human.

For the rest, LL is unlikely to be able or willing to offer options to deal with 'bots' that are any different than how we deal with 'people'. Any tool that could be used against bots... can be abused and used unfairly against humans as well.

Sadly, the natural outcome will be more people retreating to gated communities, some run by highly reputable people like Desmond Shang... others run by unknown NWM (newbies with money). They'll set up "by invitation only" areas so that the community can eject any identified anti-bot, anti-griefer, anti-minor, anti-ageplayer, anti-whatever as they like.

I don't think LL favors bots and their owners OVER normal residents... I think they intend to deal with them equally.

Seeing as how LL is just really unlikely to change their position on bots, some compromise is necessary for protection: Cost (private sims) or freedom (living under an estate manager).

If that isn't acceptable... I wish you luck finding a better solution or a better home.

Yes, it's an answer. No, I don't work for ESC.

I don't think it's possible to scan an isolated island that has restricted access. They are not, therefore, scanning the entire grid.


Yeah. That, too. I don't have any bots so when rudely asked for a yes/no on if my bots are scanning the entire grid, I will answer with a simple no.

TY for remembering the 'she' part, Colette.

Is this really true? I can think of a number of very useful uses for it if it is.

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Pretty much! It's a level of detail thing.... I can't say whether the client or the server is controlling this aspect though.

In looking though the new support pages I came across this:



Now I would argue that having your objects scanned by a bot without your permission and knowledge was also an intrusion of that "reasonable level of privacy" as much as having pictures or videos taken.