The Second Life Marketplace maturity rating bugs are reaching comical levels right now, well comical for me as none of my items have moved rating, probably not comical for the merchants who are scratching their heads wondering what’s going on.
Reports have came in that “an”, “5”, “Six”, “AO” and “X” (uppercase) are considered too hot to handle for general audiences on SLM. There’s clearly a bug and it’s clearly teething problems but this has all got a bit silly very quickly, fortunately so silly that merchants seem to be seeing the funny side but one wonders how long their goodwill will last.
Brooke Linden, has been rather impressively communicating in the blogrums and reminds me somewhat of Pink … and look what happened to poor Pink in the end, I still don’t get why they’d let someone as talented as Pink go, whereas I often didn’t see eye to eye with Pink, the reason I didn’t see eye to eye was because she communicated, Brooke is certainly doing well in that department.However it’s the word filter that is going to drive people up the wall and really, LL need to accept defeat on this for the time being and roll it back. They should start with a bit of advice from George Carlin about words and then add a few clearly obvious words in there too, the filter as it stands is trying to be too clever by half, which either means it’s not a good filter, or it’s so clever it’s eating itself.
Whatever the reasons, LL should just back off a little bit and allow the dust to settle, many merchants haven’t caught up with the changeover from the old marketplace yet, this is just giving them more to do when really, they should be creating, not second guessing a flawed filtering process.
Filters will of course always be flawed and teething problems with new systems are not unexpected, but when they’re so clearly identified, you shouldn’t keep twisting. Hopefully the current goodwill feeling will carry people through without too many wounds.
I’m still trying to figure out why “Bits and Bobs” (in reference to Craig Altman’s team) got one of my house builds bumped from General to Mature (it comes with a lounge suite with sitting animations), whereas the rest contacting lounge suites & the same wording – both in “Features” and the main text – *didn’t*.
All I did was remove “Bits and Bobs” from the item re-rated as Mature – and presto-changeo, I could revert it to General.
As to Pink – sorry, I rarely take a dislike to a Linden. She, alongside Jack, became the exception that broke the rule.