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Grid "unification" proposal
Second Life Insider
Apr 18th 2007 2:13AM Q. How do we protect kids from adult content?
A. Within the Teen Grid's borders alone there are both Main-Grid created, and Teen-Grid created mature content. It is virtually impossible to protect Teens from viewing mature content. Linden Lab would of course restrict Teens from venturing to the Mature sims.
Q. Given the curious mix of PG and mature sims butting up it's impossible
A. It is possible for Linden Lab to not send the Mature-simulator info to clients logged in with Teen-tagged accounts, thus eliminating the possibility of Teens getting into Mature sims.
Q. This proposal would make it possible for families to share SL together, which they currently can't (there are people who see this as good, those who see it as bad).
A. Is this not Second Life? Life is all about family - Without family, life would not be life at all. It’s the fundamental basis of human society. It would only be ethically and morally right to unite families and stop the segregation.
Q. In RL we mix teens and adults in many situations and circumstances - families, shopping etc. Teens can, and do, find adult content if they look at all hard. Why does SL maintain this artificial division?
A. Covered in the first question - One can only do so much to try to protect Teens from Mature content. If one is determined, one can do almost anything.
Grid "unification" proposal
Second Life Insider
Apr 15th 2007 10:52PM A friend of mine directed me to this page; Here's the original proposal:
Unification Proposal - Unite Teens with Adults
I, Alex Harbinger, propose that Teens be allowed to venture to the Main Grid’s PG simulators, yet the Teens will still retain the Teen Grid for themselves.
Connecting the two Grids (Teen Grid and Main Grid) would allow for a more diverse community, which in turn would prove the underlying essence of ‘Second Life’ as it really is - A Second Life, adults with Teenagers. There should be no age discrimination, no segregation.
Teens should be allowed to venture to the Main Grid’s PG sims. This may raise some problems however, such as: Legal and financial issues of exposing Teens to potential mature situations, the time and effort needed in allowing Teens onto MG-PG sims, adults disliking communications with Teens, and a magnitude of problems and issues that would arise.
By retaining the original Teen Grid, Linden Lab would evade any possible legal problems, and still keep their theme of a place ‘only for Teens’. This would also allow for teens that wish to stay separate from adults, separate.
It may be needed that Teens on MG would have a tag in their profile alerting others that they are, indeed, teenagers. In order to counter-balance the problems that may come with this, teenager abuse reports against adults should take top priority, or teens should have their own ‘support team’ (Ex – The current ‘Teen Grid Support’ team becomes ‘Teen Support’, working with all Teen reports, regardless of Grid.
Adults would benefit from having Teens on the MG-PG sims in a magnitude of ways, including a more diverse community, being able to communicate not only across continents, but also across age groups. Adults would also be able to teach Teens how to mature, and in turn, Teens would be able to show off their creativity. Adults would still keep the Mature sims to themselves, so that any adults who don’t want to see teens all the time can stay within the majority mature sims.
Linden Lab would benefit from this not only by being able to call their platform ‘Second Life’ and actually meaning it, but also by possibly allowing only Teens with payment info on file to be allowed on MG-PG sims, increasing both Teen-security, and allowing Linden Lab to retain more information on their customers, and increasing the chance of overall profits. This could potentially also increase the amount of customers Linden Lab has as more Teens would want to play, and adults that believe in a more diverse environment.
Furthermore, many Teens bring up the subject of ‘economic meltdown’ if Teens ever became able to buy MG items. Many residents on the Teen Grid have complained, “we aren’t good enough!” or “there’s no way we can stand up to adults! They spend 30 hours a day on SL!”. Adults may spend more hours in a day per day on SL, but that does not mean they are all better then Teens, nor that Teen-created items will become obsolete. Many residents of the Main Grid encourage Teens to create, and are interested in Teen creativity.
A recent study showed that Teen-created objects sold better on the Main Grid then on the Teen Grid, not only in volume, but also in profits while the items were at an elevated price. The amount of L$ gained far succeeded that on the MG than on the TG with an EXTREME minimal amount of participation on the [seller]’s part (No advertising on MG; Lots of advertising on TG). If Teens sold their items on the MG, there would be no lack of L$-flow.
Teens are strong enough, by far. We are not useless!
I say Linden Lab, let my people go. Unite parents with their children, teens with adults. Give us a chance. Make Second Life what it was meant to be!
[For more information, visit [http://www.alexharbinger.com] - Updates will be posted as they come]
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