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There is no need to support bots at all so no need for a default timeout. The seller must manually confirm the proposed sale is accepted.
MIA land owners can just miss possible sales because they don't feel like keeping up with their account(s)/land. The sooner automated bots of any kind that masquerade as a legitimate account are made a TOS violation the better. If LL wants to support bots they need to make a special account type for bots and give parcel owners the power to deny any interaction of any kind on any object in the parcel or the parcel itself. @Ann
If you're versed on the technical matters you will realize that bots are not an issue of support nor policy and cannot be eliminated. The SL client is already open-sourced and primitive bots existed even before that. Whether we like them or not, they're here to stay, and they will be able to do anything that doesn't require human intelligence and discernment to perform. In the absence of actions that require human intelligence there is no automated way to distinguish human from a bot, hence the idea of special account types and policies would never work. In an MMO I was in a lot of work was done to combat the onslaught of bots but what happened was bots became more and more difficult to spot, more difficult to catch, and there were increasing numbers of humans that were being tagged wrongly as bots. It takes a human to catch a bot, and even that is not foolproof. Bots cannot be eliminated but we can prevent the damage they cause. This is why a bunch of us at SL Universe forums crafted this proposal. @Ann (addendum)
The timeout is not a bot support specification. It is a specification for big landowners and land-dealers to spare them from having too many confirm windows to click for land that's deliberately listed as being purchasable by "anyone." Additional item on input from Tess Whitcroft. Does not directly address the main problem but it does add some more security and more flexibility in Land Sales
7. A checkbox and timer setting that will allow the seller to cause the sale to time out. That is, if the land does not sell by a specified time, the sale gets canceled. Above item #7 is not for the confirm dialog but the basic sell dialog.
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6. (modification to #2) The timeout begins running upon posting of the sale offer rather than upon purchase attempt. This way long-standing sale offers (typical of big real estate brokers) are considered confirmed sales to anyone.