call it stupid. or just call it a late night rant amongst friends. but after a few rounds at the ol think box we have found a very easy way to if not completely eliminate at least prevent a majority of griefers from attacking us. ;)
we already have to pay to upload sounds. and textures. and even animations. and griefers tend to do this on their main accounts and then copy the asset uuid to patch into their scripts. but what if......... and please bare in mind this is silly but it might just work..... what if LL slapped a nice little charge on scripts. be it a 10L per script charge. or a method of forcing residents to age and payment verify before given the ability to create scripts. the latter would force all the stupid script kiddies off the grid as they couldnt show proof of their age and surely these 14-15 year old punks dont have credit cards. Plus the added benifit that LL would have RL contact information on these clowns that waste region resources with stupid prims and particles. Griefing is another form of internet terrorism in some cases lol. the per script charge way would also link alts to main accounts as the main would be sending 10 or 20L at a time to their alts so they could create scripts. alt abuse causes you to lose both accounts. this would show these people that just cause they use an alt doesnt mean they have the right to grief others. i know that alot of people will say that charging residents for the right to script is wrong... ye but if you look at it that way.. charging me to have a texture is wrong too. LL charges for textures and sounds and animations cause they take up space on LL servers. scripts do too. so why not charge for them? i personally would not mind paying for the right to create scripted content. and this would benifit the community as well cause you would then have the feeling of security that when you go shopping for an item you know that the person that made it has legit information with LL and they arent jsut some conartist selling you some fake scripted something. sorry for taking up your time guys and gals... keep up the good work with the viewer work. just thought i would get the opinion of others that are legit creators in this virtual world we all share. mal _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
