100L Spam
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Journey Bunny
It's getting absolutely ridiculous. And SL is a small world :( We'll be wrecked if this platform grows anymore.
Couple mitigating strategies, since I know you know this is a problem, but the problem persists:
IF
* Account less than X days old
* Account sends messages to more than G large public groups of size S in M minutes
* Account asks for #L, example 100L or 150 "linden dollars" or "100 lindens"
THEN
Account is banned for 2 days, increment per event.
You can, I expect, do a bit of data crunching to determine the best values for X, G, S, M and a pattern for #.
This would solve quite a lot of it, making it just vanish. For patterns that don't fit this (eg, established accounts getting hacked and used to spam for Lindens), you want the actual AR process so that someone doesn't lose their Second Life just bc it got hacked once.
For bonus points, rather than a pattern of number + L you could do a bit of actual nlp, testing "is this message asking for money." But even just a broad pattern search, in combination with the previous factors, would be spectacular.
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Iza Blossom
It would be easier to just adjust permissions in a group. If LL gave us the ability for everyone in a group to READ group chat but not WRITE group chat would be best. Then if a group owner wanted some residents the ability to WRITE to the group chat it could be defined in a role. Then group related things could still be posted by group mods for everyone to read but no one could spam for other businesses or that they need 100 L can anyone help :P
Spidey Linden
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Darien Caldwell
Just mute them and you never have to worry about them again.
Mister Acacia
Other alternatives for groups you own or manage:
1) Remove chat abilities for the Everyone role, make a Chatters role and add users to it when they ask.
2) Charge L$1 to join the group, possibly refundable after some period.
3) Use a group inviter that users must click.
Caelan Whimsy
Mister Acacia Charging to join a group is the simplest fix. Spam bots look for the easiest groups to join and they certainly won't pay when other groups are free. And L$1 is not a high barrier for anyone who genuinely wants to be part of the group.
Rey Brandi
Alternative could also be;
Adding a group tag by group owner/admin that says beg YES or NO should if NO enable AI code that auto detects asking for any amount and "NOT ALLOW that chat message to go through at all" if it is detected as asking for money. Any account that uses alternative chat text to ask for it to by pass AI should be immediately "BANNED" for a day/+ with a warning. Then for consecutive breaking of this rule should add more days to their next bans resulting in complete disabling of their spamming account for a longer period or until they contact LL and sort that out along with them confirming their identity and confirming that they have now understood the terms and that should be recorded legally with them being notified of it so that it stands legally. If they continue to do it then delete account.