Back in the day Second Life used to list the 25 most recent offences in what was known as the Police Blotter. Later on it became the incident report. These reports looked like this:<\/p>\n
Date<\/strong>: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 Being as that offence took place in Ahern you can’t help but wonder whether the issue was using offensive language in IM, whereas in Ahern it’s traditional to be abusive in local chat. Some of the offences fall into the bizarre category, such as what appears to have been the St Patrick’s day massacre:<\/p>\n Date<\/strong>: Friday, March 17, 2006 We see examples of offences that were serious enough to be listed but had a touch of humour about them:<\/p>\n Date<\/strong>: Friday, June 30, 2006 Date<\/strong>: Saturday, July 8, 2006 Then we see examples of action being taken because of abusive behaviour in the forums, spamming event listings, nudity in profiles and using real world trademarks to sell goods in Second Life:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Date<\/strong>: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 Date<\/strong>: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 Date<\/strong>: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 Date<\/strong>: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 Date<\/strong>: Wednesday, August 2, 2006 Now whereas some of these reports are humouorous, others show action against offences that people complain about today. The Police blotter was evidence that Linden Lab could point to in order to exemplify that they did take action against people abusing the service.<\/p>\n The weird and the wonderful appeared there but you could also see that some actions weren’t acceptable. People definitely still complain about spamming of events, indeed some claim that the problem is that events are no longer policed and with no Police Blotter to check, it’s hard to argue with that. Events use their usefulness when they are full of spam as people can’t find the good events.<\/p>\n If you want to take a look at the old Police Blotter I suggest going to the wayback machine and starting here:<\/p>\n https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051223090920\/http:\/\/secondlife.com\/community\/blotter.php<\/a><\/p>\n Tyche Shepherd has a better way of searching incident reports on Grid Survey. There you can search incidents by region, description or violation. The incidents are between June 2007 and December 2010, so a bit later than the ones I listed from the wayback machine, but it is a much easier way of viewing incidents, you can find them at:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.gridsurvey.com\/blotter.php<\/a><\/p>\n
\nViolation<\/strong>: Community Standards: Indecency, Global Standards
\nRegion<\/strong>: Ahern
\nDescription<\/strong>: Offensive language in IM.
\nAction taken<\/strong>: Warning issued.<\/p>\n
\nViolation<\/strong>: Community Standards: Violations using Alternate Accounts
\nRegion<\/strong>: \u2014
\nDescription<\/strong>: Use of primary and alternate accounts for mafia “hits” on residents.
\nAction taken<\/strong>: Suspended 14 days.<\/p>\n
\nViolation<\/strong>: Second Life: Respect, Pets
\nRegion<\/strong>: Arabian Nights
\nDescription<\/strong>: Hedgehogs will be respected, dammit!
\nAction taken<\/strong>: Warning issued.<\/p>\n
\nViolation<\/strong>: Terms of Service: Adult Allowing Teen Access to MG
\nRegion<\/strong>: Hawaii
\nDescription<\/strong>: “My little brother did it.”
\nAction taken<\/strong>: Suspended 14 days.<\/p>\n
\nViolation<\/strong>: Event Listings Abuse: Spam
\nRegion<\/strong>: Dryas
\nDescription<\/strong>: Repeated spamming of the events.
\nAction taken<\/strong>: Suspended 3 days.<\/p>\n
\nViolation<\/strong>: Forum Informal Warning: Spamming, Trolling, Flaming
\nRegion<\/strong>: \u2014
\nDescription<\/strong>: Spamming Lindens to unlock a thread.
\nAction taken<\/strong>: Warning issued.<\/p>\n
\nViolation<\/strong>: Forum Banning – Misuse of Forums
\nRegion<\/strong>: \u2014
\nDescription<\/strong>: Continued egregious flaming and trolling of other Residents, numerous accumulated repeat violations of the forum Guidelines, including personal disputes and attacks.
\nAction taken<\/strong>: Suspended 14 days.<\/p>\n
\nViolation<\/strong>: Terms of Service: Trademark Violation
\nRegion<\/strong>: Extraordinaire
\nDescription<\/strong>: Using real-world trademarks on products sold in SL.
\nAction taken<\/strong>: Warning issued.<\/p>\n
\nViolation<\/strong>: Indecency: Global Standards: Profile
\nRegion<\/strong>: Ahern
\nDescription<\/strong>: Nudity in profile images.
\nAction taken<\/strong>: Warning issued.<\/p>\n