June 16th, 2009 by Kabalyero
Today Linden Labs released the latest version of their viewer for Second Life and, that#8217;s not all, they also launched their newest continent, Zindra. Zindra is an Adult rated continent accessible to those residents who age verified their Second Life accounts. If your account is not Age Verified as an adult then you won#8217;t be […]pa/p
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December 7th, 2007 by Kabalyero
Sometimes I just don’t know if the people running Second Life are naive or stupid. Why? Just take this entry from the Age Verification FAQ.
What if I’m under 18?
If you are under 18, do NOT lie about your age or attempt to gain unauthorized access to our system. Instead, access Teen Second Life at http://teen.secondlife.com/. Take our word for it -– you’ll like TSL much, much better. Only Residents between the ages of 13 and 17 are allowed to access Teen Second Life, and there are incredible opportunities there to interact, learn, and be creative, without any adults to get in your way.
Do they absolutely think that a mere warning or by saying “do NOT lie about your age” will stop minors from signing up with Second Life’s main grid? Seriously? When did saying NO to a teenager actually stopped a teenager from doing something? Are these people from this time period or did they come from the past transported through time using some kind of time portal?
You know what Linden Labs if you are truly and sincerely serious about Age Verification or from limiting access to the main grid to adults only then you should place the Age Verification thing during sign-up and not after. What you are really doing is, you are protecting youselves by placing the responsibility and accountability to your residents. Residents don’t own anything in Second Life and you have clearly indicated that by removing it from Second Life’s tag line and since you are the sole owner of everything that is Second Life then it is your responsibility to protect your residents and not the other way around.
This same topic was posted by HBA in his blog Backpacking Burro and I felt compelled to comment and post a blog about it.
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December 6th, 2007 by Kabalyero
When I first signed up with Second Life, it was clearly stated that it is for people 18 years of age and above. Those who are below 18 years of age are not allowed in Second Life but that doesn’t mean they can’t enjoy Second Life, that is why Teen Second Life was created.
Reading Second Life’s blog, they posted about the release of a new candidate viewer (1.18.6 RC0) and the implementation of age verification in it.
I really don’t get the logic of it. If Second Life (the main grid) is for adults only then why add an in-world age verification system. Age verification should be done, initially, at sign-up and not after signing up.
Thus this mean that Linden Labs admits the presence of minors in the main grid and they have failed to limit access to adults only?
I’m not saying that an in-world age verification system is a bad thing. In fact, it’s a good thing because there are indeed minors in the main grid and I’ve met some of them who admitted to me that they are minors but that should be the job of Linden Labs and not the estate or land owners since the sign-up process is still controlled and conducted by Linden Labs.
Implementing an in-world age verification system can also mean that minors are in fact, if not already, welcome in the main grid. Now what’s the purpose of having a Teen Second Life?
Instead of features like this why don’t they focus on important things like viewer stability and scalability. Linden Labs is wasting manpower and resources for something that should have been part of the sign up process for the main grid of Second Life.
Again, it is assumed that everyone in the main grid are adults and if there’s going to be an age verification system it should be placed at the sign up process and not after you signed up and besides, they admitted that it’s not full proof so why waste people’s time with this thing.
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