[#SVC-456] Meta-Issue: Improved Anti-Griefer Tools

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Meta-Issue: Improved Anti-Griefer Tools

Created: 23/Jul/07 03:24 PM Updated: 14/Nov/09 01:49 PM

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Component/s:

Scripts, Simulation

Affects Version/s:

None

Fix Version/s:

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Issue Links:

Duplicate

This issue is original of duplicate:

~~VWR-13913~~ Excessive, unlimited, uncapped scripted dialogs crash viewer, used for greifing

Parent/Child

This issue parent of:

~~SVC-2674~~ Anti-Griefing task: Tune the grey goo fence

Relates

This issue Relates to:

SVC-2900 Banned users can create and manipulate objects on the parcel they are banned from.

SVC-1145 llInstantMessage() doesn't obey mute settings

MISC-313 Person chooser does not show banned or disabled accounts on estate and abuse tools

~~SVC-251~~ Death teleport fails when teleporting to a home point you no longer have access to

~~VWR-3313~~ Need Permissions on the viewer for various permissions

~~SVC-125~~ llSitTarget allows evasion of being detected by llSensor

SVC-215 llRequestAgentKey (llName2Key)

SVC-2819 New Feature -> Dialog -> Group Information -> Members & Roles -> Abilities -> Send IMs

SVC-422 A solution to scams, money theft - etc. New parcels Flag "Block Transactions"

SVC-58 New LSL Super-Sensors

WEB-240 Capabilities for Estate Owners/Managers (http://cap.secondlife.com/...)

SVC-244 LSL functions for estate tools.

SVC-99 3D Permission Zones (Privacy Zones)

SVC-450 Anti-griefing parcel options

MISC-258 Open Source the sim code - faster!

SVC-2825 New Feature -> Dialog -> Group Information -> Ban List

SVC-79 Estate owners/managers should be able to enter their "full" sims

SVC-584 Abuse reports should be allowed to be filled about group deeded objects

SVC-4181 Create a content ratings system to prevent offensive content rezzing in sims with the wrong rating

SVC-452 easy estate ban list management

SVC-451 parcel/estate banlist filtering/auto-pruning

SVC-508 Estate override for parcel settings

SVC-513 Age verification to include uniqueness verification

SVC-199 list llGetAvatarGroups(key id)

VWR-2075 World - Region/Estate - Teleport Home One User and Kick User From Estate should list users On Estate instead of calling cards

SVC-1029 Allow Estate Manager tools to restrict unattended sim crossing objects

SVC-1167 Script function to return objects

SVC-410 new Parcel Flag - Prevent Physical Objects

MISC-420 Allow Ban by IP Address

SVC-1462 Privacy Mode (Make yourself invisible to scripts)

~~MISC-713~~ Add "Return All Objects" as an estate-wide feature for a specified resident

~~SVC-2292~~ Anti-replication: Objects rezzed with llRezObject() can't use llRezObject()

~~SVC-2742~~ Ban User's hardware hash from Estates

MISC-398 Meta-Issue: Meta-Issue Organization

SVC-1012 Meta Issue: Negative Exploits

This issue is related to by:

VWR-6964 Muting object (or object owner) does not mute dialogs

VWR-12541 prim spammer cuases you to crash when you try to file an abuse report

~~VWR-10540~~ Griefer's rotating XXL Megaprims slow down client incredibly

~~VWR-2388~~ Object Chat/IMs are untraceable

~~VWR-3561~~ Blue Dialogs can overload the viewer.

~~VWR-9112~~ 1.21 Region/Estate menu Return Objects by user name fails to work.

~~SVC-2674~~ Anti-Griefing task: Tune the grey goo fence

SVC-869 Fighting Spam, Scams & Phishing: Add a "Give & Sell Permissions" Parcel Option.

SVC-2864 Ability to Add Whole Groups to Land Access (and Banning) Lists

VWR-6179 Mass Muteing

VWR-14614 Expired Residents Populate Ban List

VWR-14810 Overhaul the Mute function: Make it worth using!

SVC-3461 Non-Estate Managers Need Ability to See 'Top Offenders' and/or Their Scripts Performance in Order to Optomize

VWR-11492 Mute button for llDialog popup

SVC-3661 Adding a constant to scan for particle-emitting and sound-emitting scripts

VWR-12059 Advanced Mute

VWR-12802 Mute More Features

VWR-6580 mute just isnt enough!!!

SVC-4221 Some ideas to help sim owners control sim access.

SVC-3514 llLoadUrl (and other LLMessageBox-generating functions) should be per-agent throttled, not delayed

SVC-4546 Please add a serverside script to remove deleted/permanently disabled accounts from all access/ban lists in SL after 62 days

SVC-4717 Increase number of Estate bans to 5,000 or make it unlimited

SVC-4823 block online status at server level

SVC-3381 Avatar script limits to reduce griefing.

VWR-16104 Multiple ignore for object windows

WEB-334 Enable Abuse Reporting from the Website, so Residents can Report Griefers who Keep Crashing them

~~SVC-1753~~ Limit the ability for left-click .> sit on objects to the owner only

~~VWR-8179~~ New Feature - Right Click > 'Report Abuse' from Pie Menu on the Avatar

~~SVC-3744~~ Communicating Objects Should Disclose Owner and Communication Mode In Unformatted Text

~~SVC-2575~~ Add a Beacon for chatty objects

SVC-241 Meta-issue: Improved In-world Privacy

VWR-776 flexible custom permissions for estate managers

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Put simply : we residents need better tools to deal with abuse in Second Life.

This means :

Land options/permissions
Estate options/permissions
LSL calls
Client options like true mute

With particular reference to the following problems :

Denial of Service attacks (sim crashing, etc)
Spam attacks (particle spam, chat spam, voice spam, IM spam, etc)
Trolling attacks (harassment of particular individuals or places)
Resource Abuse (using physical prims to cause sim lag, etc)
Weapons abuse (orbitting, push in safe zones, caging, etc)

Relevant news articles :

ACS Dreamland manager slams Linden Lab's response to griefing as inadequate, showing a lack of leadership and failure to give residents suitable tools, and dismisses attempts to ban griefers' accounts as a "worthless exercise" : http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2007/09/dreamland-slams.html (Sept 2007)
Wikipedia article lists griefing and denial of service attacks as a major content problem within Second Life : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life_criticism (Sept 2007)
Screenshot of a PN griefer in the process of writing "PN" on the world map by crashing many sims at once : http://img386.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pnworldmappo8.jpg

You are welcome to edit this article to include more links to news stories or images showing the griefing problem.

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WarKirby Magojiro added a comment - 25/Jul/07 10:14 AM

Linked to SVC-422. My simple and ingenious solution to almost all scams, and theft.

I accidentally made the link a duplicate, though. Still trying to work out how to change it to a relation _

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Ashcroft Burnham added a comment - 05/Aug/07 02:45 PM

This makes sense: this issue in particular: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-244 needs addressing.

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Autumnfox Vesperia added a comment - 30/Sep/07 12:10 PM

Add "Return All Objects" as an estate-wide feature for a specified resident.

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Janet Rossini added a comment - 21/Nov/07 08:28 PM

One very useful feature would be the ability to turn off dialog popups. A common form of griefing includes repeated popups that come so fast you can't operate the GUI.

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anthony reisman added a comment - 03/Jan/08 08:07 AM

Added components to the issue that I know are mentioned. Others may select more.

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Vivito Volare added a comment - 15/Feb/09 02:50 PM

Until this is better addressed, LL is going to have a difficult time bringing more business into what may feel is a "bad neighborhood." I would point to the constant vandalism of the Edwards Campaign headquarters as one embarrassing example.

You cannot stop griefers from creating throw away accounts, but a subscription based system would certainly make a major dent in it. Blizzard requires payment info to be on file, even for free trial accounts. They still have issues, but not nearly to the same degree.

A few other suggestions:

*for any tool created, provide LSL functionality that can call it
*Sim-wide deletion of objects for a given AV as an estate tool
*parcel or sim option: throttle object rez rate
*parcel option: panic button: stops all rezzing, scripts, and object entry in one click. Adding the ability to stop collisions for a period of time would be helpful too
*increase the length of time "Freeze" lasts, figuring that you want a resident to be able to freeze the offender, AR them with screenshot and complete description of the encounter, then eject them from the parcel in question.
*ejecting someone from a parcel should auto-ban them from that parcel, even temporarily
*Advanced mute: completely remove another AV from your SL experience, right down scripts, objects, and collisions (yes, I know, no small task, that)
*Throttle the number of dialogs that can be received from a single source
*Throttle the number of inventory offers an AV can receive, whether that is a global number, AV based, or in regards to any single source.

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Hypatia Callisto added a comment - 01/May/09 06:22 AM

Content Ratings system allows to bar unrated content from being rezzed, thus preventing a lot of griefer shenanigans - as a beneficial feature of allowing sim owners to choose the kind of content they allow to be rezzed into their sims. SVC-4181

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Adeon Writer added a comment - 07/Jun/09 06:14 PM

Accidently linked an issue as a duplicate here rather than related.