SL "Superheroes"

I give them an LM to a church...... renamed to sound like an obnoxious sex club

Unfortunately, while in real life actions have consequences, and a wrongdoer can expect to have something bad happen to them if the victim resists, or if the law enforcement authorities catch them, in SL there is NOTHING that an individual can do to a griefer that has any lasting consequence. The only individuals capable of meting out any form of lasting "justice" are Linden Lab employees, who have turned their backs on the anarchy they have created.

In Real Life, if you pull a weapon on me and try to mug me, I can pull out a gun and shoot you dead, in self defense. And I can be justified in doing so, in many parts of the world. In Second Life, that just gets me labeled as a griefer too, and it's actually more likely that my own avatar will suffer from being suspended or banned, than that the original griefer, who is almost certainly using an account that he considers as disposable as a mugger's Saturday Night Special handgun, and could care less if he loses that account. He'll be back in 5 min with a new, unverified alt, while you lose everything.

1. Buy a massively powerful computer.
2. Get a T1 line
3. Equip your avatar on every attachment point with massively laggy scripts.
4. Lag any greifer into submission.

Look up in the sky! It's as newbie" it's a griefer" No it's LAAAAAAAG MAN!!!! *crashes into a building and takes the sim down*

Maybe make all those scripts be dormant until you use one of the following comand lines

LAG ON!

LAGZAM!

LAG - MAN SMASH!

Its Lagatasical time!

Eat Lag, greifer freak!

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeres Laggy!

I have a folder of landmarks that I keep for "undesireables" - especially those new to SL often cannot resist pressing teleport when you give them a LM. I give a particular LM to someone depending on how they are acting...

1) If they are a noobish griefer who won't stop, I give a LM to Rausch saying you can shoot anyone there...what I don't say is they will be pwned there!! MWHAHAHA....ahem.

2) People who are engaging in inappropriate sexual activity for the area I give a LM to the most popular sex sim in SL which might either send them into ecstacy, lag them out or have people laugh at their freebie penises =)

Sometimes people can be talked out of griefing....as people have said sometimes they are bored. Some of my great friends were once griefers a long time ago but were "turned" and are now great builders and scripters who have not griefed for >1 year.

Finally, for those aspiring Superheros....by all means dress up and wear a Superhero tag. But don't actually fight them (as people have said you will be breaking ToS most likely).

Best thing to do is to (a) protect yourself by sitting (either on a prim or using a sit-shield) and then use the legitimate techniques like AR and calling Lindens to sort out the problem (I've done this and maybe I'm getting known by Lindens, but they tend to come in person these days when I call them) and encourage everyone there to mass AR the offender. And perhaps sit there and subtly irritate the griefer by not being angry or scared by them and showing that you are secure in yourself and not threatened by them....usually annoys them no end. In the end they will either be removed by authorities or get bored and go away.

You can form a band of people who act in this way if you like...but beware of zealots who turn into vigilantes who actually become griefers themselves.

What does that mean? How do you "lock down" a location or group?

Absolutely right - fighting them using the same weapons they use gets you nothing anyway. Their weapons have only temporary effect, but by sharing information with your peers and working with the Lindens, you can do something to them that they can't do to you - you can have them removed from Second Life permanently given enough time.



Great suggestion on this, Leo, and I can attest to the fact that this works, and works well. The griefers sometimes whip themselves into such a frenzy trying to get a rise out of you that they throw caution to the wind and start doing stupid things that can get them kick-banned by the Lindens on the spot. Your gambit: file abuse report after abuse report, each time they try something new. The more calm you are, the more you ignore them, the harder they try. They're like lemmings rushing headlong off a cliff.

Most griefers are about as sharp as a sack of doorknobs (or they wouldn't be griefers), and they fall for this nearly every time.

You and a friend or two might generate twenty abuse reports on a persistent griefer within a five minute period, all of them legitimate. When abuse reports pile up this fast, believe me, the Lindens do notice.

This gives me another idea for a super hero! (though I still like Lag Man)

Target Man!

Target man is a furry, gorean, BDSM harness wearing, rainbow decorated, non confrontational liberal in a Linden Lab Rules! Tshirt with a bulls-eye on the back.

Target man walks the Second Earth - looking for trouble. Well actually Looking for trouble to find him! Intollerant Greifers wont be able to resist attacking such an obvious target!

Once Target Man is greifed, he just takes it , picking himself up and rearainging his prims - He files his well recorded and documented AR. Happy it was him that was greifed and not some hapless citizen.

this ones kinda disturbing

specially if he has a "Super Alt Dog" to hump the greifer's leg

That's actually not to far off of what sometimes happens. Since the ToS prohibits people from taking nearly any aggressive action, some people do go out and make targets of themselves to save other people from having to be harrassed. It does take a great deal of self control not to shoot back.