Add a "Disable Sitting for Non-Group Members" Parcel Option to Protect Resident Privacy (Particularly in Linden Homes)
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COMPONENTS: Server / Land & Parcel Options
PROBLEM: Premium Linden Homes covenants permanently lock parcel public access to open. This creates a security loophole that griefers exploit to violate resident privacy.
Using camera-zoom from outside parcel borders, unauthorized avatars can click and "force-sit" on furniture inside a house. Because Linden Home security systems enforce a mandatory 15-second warning delay before ejection, malicious users have a massive window to execute this exploit.
Even if furniture scripts (like AVsitter) are strictly set to Group Only, the Second Life engine physically moves the intruder onto the object for a split second before the script can un-sit them. This micro-second interaction completely scrambles the animation layout, shifts camera angles, disrupts the current residents, and triggers script engine error crashes.
IMPACT: For many premium members, Second Life is a vital medium used to sustain and explore real-world, long-distance relationships. Our leased homes are personal sanctuaries. When anonymous users exploit camera mechanics to force their way into a private room and disrupt intimate furniture animations, it constitutes a severe violation of privacy that triggers real-world emotional distress and trauma. Leaving paying customers unable to protect their private spaces actively drives them to look for alternative platforms.
PROPOSED SOLUTION: Please add a toggle feature inside World > About Land > Options (similar to Object Entry or Run Scripts filters) that states: "Allow other Residents to: Sit on Objects" with checkboxes for [ ] Everyone and [ ] Group.
If the Everyone box is unchecked, the server should completely reject any click-to-sit raycast actions originating from an avatar who is not wearing the parcel's active group tag. This server-side check completely neutralizes the camera-clicking exploit. It keeps Linden Home regions physically accessible for mainland exploration while giving premium residents the baseline privacy protections required to feel safe in their homes.
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Thank you for taking the time to write up this request—especially the detailed Linden Home privacy/use-case around camera-click “force sit” and the limitations of scripted sit restrictions and security-orb delays.
We did find this is a duplicate of an older request from Second Life’s previous bug tracking system (the Jira archive):
BUG-226827
(“Parcel-Level Controls on ‘Sit’ and ‘Touch’”). That Jira item covers the same core need you’re describing: adding parcel-level permissions to prevent unwanted Sit
interactions (and optionally Touch) in a way that can’t be bypassed by camera clicking.Because this was previously raised, we’re marking your report as
Tracked
and linking it to BUG-226827
so your additional context (Linden Home covenant constraints, the brief server-side sit before scripts can react, and the privacy impact) is captured in the ongoing record. We don’t have an ETA to share, but keeping everything consolidated under the tracked item helps the team evaluate it with the full set of resident examples and impacts.