{"id":527,"date":"2011-02-16T18:13:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T18:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2011-02-16T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T18:28:10","slug":"slave-is-an-adult-keyword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Slave is an adult keyword"},"content":{"rendered":"

The maturity rating nonsense goes on with Linden Lab steadfastly refusing to let us have a sensible dialogue about these issues. Last night I had an issue whereby the parcels on my sim were only showing under adult search, so I contacted Live Chat, who weren’t seeing the problem. Live chat was back to a good sense of support, the guy was extremely polite and went through the steps, I cleared cache as advised and my parcels were moderate again. However they weren’t moderate when I used the website search, I had to add the add filter to see them, although this later rectified itself.<\/p>\n

However my classifieds were still being incorrectly flagged as adult, and Linden Lab have so far offered no help whatsoever here, so it’s down to residents to try and help each other, but if you try and do that on the Jira or the blogrum, Linden Lab may well remove your helpful advice, this is quite frankly absurd.<\/p>\n

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Jira WEB-3646<\/a> is an example of helping a fellow resident. I pointed out that the problematic words in the listing were “Slave<\/em>” and “Slaves<\/em>“. Having pointed this out, the resident was able to adjust their listing so that it wasn’t incorrectly flagged as adult. The use of the terms here was completely PG, a Master\/Slave system has been a PG way of describing computing and other setups for eons. The word itself isn’t adult, and the product certainly wasn’t adult.<\/p>\n

However into the fray comes Brooke Linden, to delete my comment because I had the temerity to point out exactly where the problem lay:<\/p>\n

“Looks like this had a satisfactory resolution. I had to modify a comment, since we don’t allow posting keywords in JIRA or on Linden Lab managed forums.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

If the words were adult words, I’d have seen Brooke’s point, if the product was adult, I’d have seen Brooke’s point too, but the words aren’t adult and nor is the product. This is where Linden Lab are being extremely silly because it’s merchants who have to work their way around the borked maturity ratings filter and when a solution is found, Linden Lab censor it, presumably because they think someone who has an adult rated product will deliberately circumvent their maturity ratings filter to list their adult product to general audiences. However if someone is doing that, then they are in the wrong, the filter is currently punishing people for using PG language in a PG context, those trying to circumvent the filter to list an item that uses language in an adult context, are going to work out how to do it anyway.<\/p>\n

The filter has been badly implement and is a bad solution, it’s making merchants have to do work they shouldn’t need to do. Context is the key, oh but that can’t be policed, so punish people with general listings anyway and don’t allow advice and solutions to PG context being posted anywhere, make the next person with the same problem have to work it out all over again, wasting their time which could be better spent creating items or having fun inworld, instead Linden Lab want them to have to waste time figuring it all out.<\/p>\n

I’ve actually created a new classified advert this week to try and figure out why my adverts are adult, I’m paying extra to figure out a bug, I’m sure at this point that Linden Lab would be able to sell me a bridge.<\/p>\n

This maturity ratings mess trundles on, with very little help from Linden Lab, the people who implemented it, it’s time for this nonsense to stop. Linden Lab need to stop going out of their way to inconvenience their customers and they should be allowing sensible dialogue about these issues on their servers, not trying to bury it under the carpet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The maturity rating nonsense goes on with Linden Lab steadfastly refusing to let us have a sensible dialogue about these issues. Last night I had an issue whereby the parcels on my sim were only showing under adult search, so I contacted Live Chat, who weren’t seeing the problem. Live chat was back to a … <\/p>\n

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