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Recently, Jezebel Bailey was affected by a landbot which swooped in before she had a chance to react. She came to realize that many residents have fallen victim to such circumstances, with the largest reported case almost costing Lucreza Ah $2,000 USD. That was an almost because the community stepped in where [w:Linden Lab] failed to.

Astounded, as many of us were the first time we heard of it, she corresponded with Linden Lab after making her problem public. She got the standard responses many of us heard before, and she spoke with me a bit - when I was researching my ebook, I was accused of accusing (!) and unceremoniously dumped to Lewis PR which then... referred me to the Second Life website, effectively avoiding the hard questions. Jezebel spoke with others.

Jezebel decided to go a step further. She decided to start a petition about the issue (hint: Click that link to see the petition).

She's written up a petition - another open letter, if you will - and you can find it here. It calls on Linden Lab to address the situation which they have avoided addressing for so long - instead adding sculpties and Voice to Second Life when many people simply want a working environment where they cannot be so easily victimized.

At a town hall meeting (May 3rd, 2007), Chaos Mohr was responded to thus:

[12:28] Jeska Linden shouts: Chaos Mohr: What is being done to address land database issues which result in things such as parcels being paid for and not transferring, parcels being sold to multiple people etc? This seems to be a major technical issue which keeps cropping up and hasn’t been fixed yet.
[12:28] Cory Linden shouts: These are likely symtpoms of the broader stresses on the central db and transactions..
[12:29] Cory Linden shouts: as I mentioned int he blog post, we are attacking these problems in two ways, to first identity weak spots in the current system and to build a better transaction system as well.

These flaws mentioned indicate possible problems elsewhere, problems which may well be called 'User Error'. Some of us have seen land show the wrong information when right clicked and selecting 'About'; instead it sometimes shows the information for an adjacent parcel. All manner of problems could exist, but the first step is getting Linden Lab to acknowledge that there is a problem with:

(1) The interface.
(2) The transaction system.
(3) The search system, which allows bots to search for land parcels so fast that you can't afford to make a mistake.

One of the things which I have pressed for is a lag time before land parcels appear in search - myself and others have suggested that for almost a year. But even if that solution is not viable, another solution must be found - especially if Linden Lab wants credibility from the community when it comes to Bragg vs. Linden Lab and the perceived value of land to Linden Lab.

Help support the community by letting Linden Lab know in no uncertain terms that these problems are no longer acceptable:

Make Some Noise

Or get an island and forget that and the ad farms which Linden Lab permits.