There are several sets of rules for users of Second Life. The Terms of Service (TOS) and Community Standards (CS) which combined form your explicit service-contract with Linden Lab, and assorted implicit ones, like following any additional conditions the owner of whatever land-parcel that you are currently on may have chosen to impose.

Well, the Linden Lab have updated the Community Standards for the first time in, well, perhaps forever. While the Lab has said that it has updated them in the past, the document has remained unaltered since at least 2005. What's new, however, isn't necessarily as interesting as what's missing.

Continue reading Second Life community standards updated

Second Life community standards updated originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

At any time that a Second Life user feels that someone in their vicinity (or objects in their vicinity) violates Linden Lab's Terms of Service, or the Second Life Community Standards, that user can file an abuse report, which is then forwarded to Linden Lab's abuse team for processing via a request tracker.

Each report, we are told, is examined and action taken where appropriate. Every account has a record which is to be assessed to determine ongoing abuse. An established resource and record of actions apparently exists to determine consistency of judgment.

But that can't be the whole story.

Continue reading Peering Inside: Massively abusive

Peering Inside: Massively abusive originally appeared on Massively on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.