We
are taking a closer look at personal safety, griefing, policing within Second
Life. Here is what you need to do should you be threatened by a griefer or your
personal safety becomes in jeopardy.
First
of all we answer the question ... What is a Griefer ?
A
Griefer is a person or a group of people causing other people grief by becoming
a nuisance ad causing drama. These types
can range from minor name calling and verbal abuse all the way up to SL and RL
illegal activity including credit card fraud, identity theft, DOS attacks or
Denial Of Service attacks.
Users
should remember that they must follow the Linden Labs Terms of Service (TOS)
these include ...
( For a full
breakdown of the TOS you can visit http://lindenlab.com/tos#tos6)
When
you begin your Second Life, you agree to abide by certain rules of conduct,
including any applicable community standards for the portion of the Service you
are using and other rules prohibiting illegal and other practices that Linden
Lab deems harmful.
You
will not post or transmit prohibited content, including any content that is
illegal, harassing or violates any person's rights.
You
agree that you will not post or transmit content or code that may be harmful,
impede other users' functionality, invade other users' privacy, or
surreptitiously or negatively impact any system or network.
INFRINGEMENT NOTIFICATIONS
Second Life operates an intellectual property complaint process for complaints that User
Content infringes another’s Intellectual Property Rights, the details of which
are described below and, with respect to Second Life, in our Intellectual
Property Policy.
They
also include Intolerance
The
use of derogatory or demeaning language or images in reference to another
Resident's race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or sexual orientation is never
allowed in Second Life. Harassment, Assault, Disturbing the Peace and Global
Attacks are included in these rules.
How
to Report a Griefer.
Residents should report violations of the Community
Standards using the Abuse Reporter tool located under the Help menu in the
in-world tool bar. LL reviews these abuse reports, and the identity of the
reporter is kept strictly confidential.
Alternatively
you can contact one of SL's educated / trained and experienced police groups
for patrols and guidance in how to combat griefers some of these groups include
The Green Lanterns.
What can SL police groups do to help you ?
An
experienced SL Police group can help to educate you on how to handle griefers
and can assist in patrolling your area and help to file abuse reports – these
groups are handy to have especially if you are off-line and unable to file an
abuse report yourself or if you cannot patrol your entire area / sim and need
assistance.
Help can be provided in the following
ways ....
Guidance
– Sim / Area guidance – how to setup your security settings to block new 1 day
old users and thus blocking griefers.
·
How
to add griefers to your area ban list.
·
How
to file a abuse report via linden labs.
·
Patrol
of the area and or sim to eliminate future griefing problems.
Using
negotiation skills in talking to the griefers to try and stop their activities
should be the first step before more higher policing tactics are used – like
banning or blocking the individual or group in quesiton.
Policing
Groups in SL
The
Green Lanterns of Second Life
(Based
on the comic book action heroes, these residents provide a community watch
service in Second Life and can be contacted should you need assistance.
You can contact the owner of the Green Lanterns –
Hal Jordan for more information.
Does the work that the Green Lanterns perform –
are they actually beneficial ?
Read
this report for more info about the Green Lanterns of Second Life
The
experienced police style groups of SL have special HUDS and objects available
to them that can help to protect and assist the residents of SL – for security
reasons the full abilities will not be explained within this report, but I can
mention that one of the abilities of the groups are to find small objects that
contain scripts that might be placed within an area or sim that may cause
problems, these can then be located and eliminated quickly.
As you
explore Second Life, be safe , aware and protect yourself. If you need
assistance be sure to seek help from The Green Lanterns of Second Life and any
other trustworthy groups against griefers.
Power in
numbers will help you have a grief free experience.
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