[#SVC-2575] Add a Beacon for chatty objects

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Add a Beacon for chatty objects

Created: 26/Jun/08 05:33 PM Updated: 05/Sep/08 10:44 AM

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SVC-456 Meta-Issue: Improved Anti-Griefer Tools

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There is a major lack of tools for identifying and finding objects that send out chat messages. These are often used by griefers to flood the chat over large areas. When one of these is placed in a sandbox you often see even experienced players spending a lot of time hunting them down. Searching for the object by name is usually ineffective because the object changes names with each message.

A clean, simple solution would be to add a beacon for chatty objects. That would make it quick and simple to find and identify such objects to mute the owners, file abuse reports, or return the objects to the owner.

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Ezian Ecksol added a comment - 27/Jun/08 12:32 AM

Start in these cases a script that reports the name of the owner and the position of the chatty object(s), so one can mute the owner. Not really necessary to implement a beacon.

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Cotytto Bonetto added a comment - 27/Jun/08 11:38 AM

Sorry, Ezian, but by that argument we should remove about half the user interface and replace it with various scripted objects.

It isn't just about "I muted it for me, problem solved." If that were the case we wouldn't need to find it. It is more important to report it so the abuse team can not only deal with this particular problem but also see patterns of behavior by particular individuals and take furher action if needed. This sometimes includes more than simply the owner of the object. It is sometimes helpful to see the creator as well. The best way to file such a report is to click on the actual object to automatically enter the data in the report.

One case I ran into on Sandbox Island just yesterday involved such a chatty object, buried in a huge pile of scripted objects. Even though I was the first to get the owner's name and exact location of the object, I never found it. It was impossible to get to through all the scripted junk. If I had had a beacon for chatty objects I would have found it in seconds.

Many of the users of sandboxes are new people who don't have access to advanced defense scripts. The more experienced users are using the workaround of rezzing big red arrows pointing to the object (once they find it) and giving the name of the person who needs to be muted. This is, at best, a really poor patch that simply illustrates that better tools are needed to deal with this. It seems to me the quickest and most effective would be a beacon.