Should we have a 5-15 minute delay to reduce the risk of landgrabs due to mistakes

Implementing a popup dialogue requiring the seller to agree to sell their land to Joe Avatar when Joe Avatar clicks on the land parcel to buy it sounds like a great idea for private sales. It would be a bit of a problem for your run-of-the-mill land traders who would be stuck clicking on dialogue box buttons all day long. Maybe make such a sale confirmation dialogue box a default option that could be bypassed so that land dealers could get on with their second lives rather than being reduced to the level of a rat in a Skinner Box?

I agree a bypass option should be included. I also think that if an email prompt should be send on a land offer so people can be poked to log in and accept or decline it.

I agree a bypass option should be included. I also think that if an email prompt should be send on a land offer so people can be poked to log in and accept or decline it.

You're missing the major point. People are losing land to landbots because they either do not know they exist, or do not realize how fast they can act. You can have your buyer standing right next to you and be the only 2 people in the sim surrounded by empty sims, with your buyer's finger waiting to click 'buy' as soon as you click 'sell', and the landbot will still take it. If you've never seen it happen, you can't imagine how fast it is. The landbot can complete the purchase faster than you can get your finger off the mouse from clicking sell. Even if there was only a 30 second delay before the land went into the search listing, it would stop most of these landbot swoops from happening. Asking for more confirmations from the seller isn't going to help if the seller doesn't realize how fast the bots can act and believes that the only person with a chance of buying is their intended seller.

I voted for 6 hours.

I also like the option for the seller to receive a message/pop box that ask to "accept" or "decline", like when we receive inventory offers.

Can anyone help me to create such a poll please?

Seven people volunteered, but you had them all on "ignore".

Seven people volunteered, but you had them all on "ignore".

Then why dont people read twice what they typed and wait five minutes before they click on the sell button? That requires no change and could take effect immediately. Why are people in such a hurry to click on the sell button when it's their money on the line?

All a built in delay says to me is that we need to have our hands holded. Last I checked we're all (supposedly) over the age of 18. I don't need my hand held when I am selling land, I've never had a problem.

... you just take whatever time seems necessary to you going over your land sale dialog until you're sure everything's right BEFORE you send it off. So no, I don't think a built-in delay would be helpful.

As has been mentioned - quite a few newbies selling land in person to a third party also present in an otherwise empty sim often think it safe not to set the explicit sell to person (at least the first time), probably because of the extra effort needed to type the name and search for someone standing right next to them! The delay would reduce the risk here.

Also, due to lags, bugs etc. that dialog is not always reliable, and there are occasions when what has gone up for sale was NOT what was confirmed in that dialog. A short delay would allow you to check that the sale set is what you intended.

Matthew

Yeah

Then when the land price resets itself and people are too chickenshit to back you up, you might JUST have a chance to claim back the 100$ you are down.

(For those who saw my post about this I was told "but I would be abusing my powers" by the estate owner)

I have to say, Argos, that I think the solution to -that- is to make selling to a single individual the default and selling to everyone an option that requires separate confirmation. I don't really understand why people are misunderstanding what they are supposed to do, but that they are doing so chronically suggests that the interface is faulty.

You just don't get it. When there is nobody else around other than the seller and intended buyer, the seller sees no reason to go through the extra steps required to put the name in. People do understand the process for selling land, checking the numbers they've put in, and reserving the land for a specific person. What they don't understand is the speed of the landbots. Even if selling to an individual was the default, it will still be easier to click anyone instead of looking up the persons name. If the buyer is standing next to the seller, and there's nobody else around, there's no reason for the seller to believe that anyone else would have a chance to get the property.

im on earth in 2007, where a contract can be agreed at the touch of a button.
i am guessing you live in the 1940s and still own a quill then