Wednesday, April 16, 2008

My Naked Newbie Problem

OMG it is raining Ruths.

I have no idea what is happening at my house, but I have an issue that needs to be sorted out. Months ago, I set the landing spot for my property to be on my front porch right in front of the doors - so handy for visiting guests! But for the past two weeks though it hasn't been guests appearing there. I have had naked avatar after naked avatar rez there stay for a few seconds or a few minutes then disappear.

What strikes me as super odd is that the naked noobs are several weeks old but all still look like newly born avatars - Ruths. Even the ones with male names. In fact, the most common rez day for them seems to be March 20, 2008.

My fiance' Jerremy put up a scanner that keeps track of all visitors on the property so we can make a note of the names. It is never the same avatar twice and they seem to rain down in bunches. We'll get five in a row and then nothing for an hour or so and then another three in quick succession. My neighbors have even im'd me worried messages about the crowd of naked noobs in front of my house.

My estate owner had no solution. The support chat line service person at Linden Labs had no solution either - he simply suggested that we start filing grievance reports whenever we can catch a name so they can do some deeper investigation. Are we being griefed? Who knows.

There is no pattern to the names and they never respond to im's. Why is there suddenly this strange "worm hole" on my property now? If anyone has an idea or potential solution (knowing that because we live on a private island we are not allowed to restrict access except to specific avatars) please let me know.

Is this the SL equivalent of door-to-door religious missionaries? Are they escaping from somewhere - like my neighbor Satan's basement? Who has time to make 50+ alts (and counting!) for the sole purpose of landing naked at my house? Can someone possibly be having that difficult of a time entertaining themselves? It is the Lindens doing something to inflate the number of new subscribers?

OMG! Are the Lindens griefing me for refusing to stop using SLisms? If it is, all I can say is that the new branding crackdown has gone way too far. :-P
Posted by Tymmerie Thorne at 2:17 PM
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  1. These are most likely "bot" rather than alts, the automated avatars usually run by some third party and rented out to others. Most often they appear to be camping and fill up regular camping spots, but are often owned by the person in charge of the property. Sometimes not. Sometimes they just hover over camping spots and swoop down when there is an instant of emptiness. Since they are controlled by software rather than an actual person the less sophisticated ones say nothing or very little. There are some HIGHLY programed ones however that look and act like regular folks. Only through tricky conversation can you figure out there is really "no one there". WHY they are at your spot assuming it wasn't a camping spot and that you have lived there awhile, I have no clue. It could be a form of griefing certainly. Sorry. Does NOT sound like fun in the least.
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  2. Hmm, Nicolas and I had a similar problem at our home too. It only happened the one night but we had a group of about 5 "noobs" descend on the property, look around, and then off they went. In a separate incident I had one hover outside the bedroom door declaring he was the "POLICIA!" and after simply telling him to leave he promptly did. Bizarre-o.
    Hopefully you can find a solution for your new found fans ;)
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  3. They are bots. You can do one of two things:

    1) If you use Banlink on your land, add their names to the list so that others will not have the same issues that trust your sim.

    2) Add their names to your estate/land banlist and after awhile it should ease.

    I bet the names are either ciccio1,2,3 or are they they the Adamczyk bots?

    Last suggestion, if you are a sim owner,contact LL Concierge level support. GTeam will look into it and you may find that one day they just disappear.

    GOOD LUCK
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  4. I'm taking it as an indication of the End of Days. Apparently He's bypassing locusts and going straight for a plague of Ruths.
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  5. Sorry my love. I was worried this day would come. Those are my groupies. You see I am the alt av of a well know SLRocker ™. I knew it was only a matter of time before they found me. They have already thrown their clothes to me on stage. Now they are offering all they have left…. I just hope they don’t read this blog and see that we are engaged. I lost my last fiancée that way :-( She was carried off by a horde of crazed Ruthetts, never to be seen again.
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  6. I have been having this problem aswell. For me though the same people come back to my house over and over again. They have also now taken to going to my store. This happened to me months ago aswell but eventually they stopped (that was all Adamczyk the last time) I'm just hoping for the same this time again. This time there is no link in the names though some have proper highercase structure, some don't. Some are real names and some aren't. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with the plague of ruths, I was starting to think I'd lost my already barely there mind.
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  7. I just laughed way too hard over what Jerremy said. Of course, it is 6 in the morning.

    Those crouching naked ruths are often seen at infohubs. I'm pretty sure they're some kind of bot, although what purpose they serve, I don't know. Long ago when I was living in an infohub, I watched one log in and log out about 20 times in less than 5 minutes. Craziest thing. I wish I had some advice for you, but think of what a conversation piece it'll be for the party. lol
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  8. Samara, Dahlia, Kalli and Sunshine -- OMG you guys - I am so happy to know I am not alone. I am going to contact our estate owner and see if he can get concierge service to help out. If nothing else, Jerremy and I can start feeding him lists of names to add to the estate ban list.

    That all have very distinct names - no pattern. I will look into the Adamczyk bots (I have never heard of this) and ciccio1,2,3 bots (that is not one of the names either).

    Winter - ROFL over the end of days comment. God is on SL? Maybe we could ask him to fix the face light problem.

    Alicia - you and Jerremy think alike (scary, huh?). He also said they would be entertainment at the party.
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  9. You could move your landing spot to a secluded area on your land or even better a simple platform in the sky that cant be seen from the ground.

    I havent seen this problem before but there are similar SL bot mysteries out there.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorra_debs/1573884682/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorra_debs/1573890120/in/photostream/
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  10. Hi - you're blog is hyperreal! I like it. Next week I'm going to be showing a class of students in a philosophy class on a tour of SL.

    They're mostly interested in technology, transhumanism, posthumanism, sex, and basically anything that is just really far out.

    Do you know any good landmarks?

    My Avatar is Acumensch Laurasia. Maybe I'll see you in world!
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  11. Oh Tymmerie, I am glad you, nor Jeremy, did not recognize me in my different avatars.;))
    In fact, that must be quiet annoying to have so many visitors at your place..not to mention how they are dressed (or non-dressed).
    I hope you can sort it out before the blogger party, or was that just a trial? I promise, I will wear my clothes by then.;))
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  12. Looker! I did not recognize you without your clothes on! :-P LOL!!
    They will just be the entertainment at the party I think, Looker!! Maybe they heard about the Belgian chocolates and that is what they are looking for!

    Dorra - I wish I could move my landing spot but I will be hosting the blogger party so it needs to be in a nice place.

    Acumensch - I can't think of any good landmarks offhand. But look for me online!
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  13. Maybe it's a shipping error... I'm sure there are many lonely guys out there praying for naked girls to rain from the sky; perhaps their prayers are being answered but in the wrong place?
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  14. Hmm, are weapons allowed on your sim? If so, get a nice orbiting gun and train your targeting ;-D
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