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Aug 14, 2001, 2:12am

Today was my first time on the administration time of an inworld event. A TV show for ABN, a rather complex undertaking requiring
synchronization of various people and events.

http://www.awnews.com/article.php?s=196 for more info on the show, that's not what I'm here to talk about.

The show went off without a hitch on it's own, but the crowd had quite a few bad apples. Unfortunately, even with a Peacekeeper
present, little was able to be done about them. Even though they were placing obscene xsign.rwx objects with some sexually explicit
wav files in the studio, nothing was able to be done. For much of the show, two of us spent our time bump warping them across
alphaworld into a bump warp trap we'd built for this type of situation, into void, stuff like that.

The PK was able to give us the luxury of giving them a stern talking to in whisper, though one made us swear not to report him to
AWC or the PKs for his actions before he'd stop and leave (Wheres the logic? A PK was RIGHT THERE)

From this experience, we learned never to trust in people's common sense or decency under any circumstances and never to host a
non-audience participation event in Alphaworld. 90% of the comments by visitors during the show were from the few bad apples.

"How am I supposed to laugh at a nerd host?"
"At least put on a good midi"
"SOMEONE WARPED ME"
"I'm going to delete this place"
"I'm a hacker"
"I WANNA HOST! I'LL BE BETTER AT IT"

However, I'd like to thank the two or three people that had the decency to keep their mouths shut until afterwards and have respect
for what we were doing, and applauded our efforts afterwards.

Alphaworld is currently USELESS for events because of the bad apples that just look to party crash. I don't know what can be done
about it, but somthing certainly should be. Thanks for reading.

Aug 14, 2001, 3:03am

No kidding. Here's a far fetched idea - an organization for public world
that grants rights to event holders to take care of these trouble makers.
Of course abusing your temporary rights would get you in big trouble O_O



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Aug 14, 2001, 4:30am

Like Citizen Revokation. Zero Tolerance Policy. One screw-up and you're
out. The event coordinators would reserve the right to deem who they may
eject from the world for disrupting an event. They would be limited to being
able to use ejects for up to 30 minutes.

How do you enforse an idea such as this? The Event Coordinator would be
limited to only being able to eject disruptive people at the event. Pretty
much the only way someone would get an event coordinator in trouble would be
if they could prove they were not at the event. That should answer for any
abuse. Heck, the ejects would be limited to 30 minutes, so not much abuse
could be had.

SW Chris

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Aug 14, 2001, 11:11am

Well, that's why I plan all my events in AWTeen, where I come with ED, PS,
and bots galore to eject, warp, and do tons of other things. All the
technology AW can give us won't stop stupidity and nuisance though. My
secret was always: type fast and just ignore. Unless the person is being a
nuisance to other people around you besides yourself, it's ejectionable, but
even that causes more harm then good because in the midst of hosting an
event, you now have telegrams from the person not to rat on him, friends
asking why you ejected him, and "DIE ****ER DIE!!!" *rolls eyes* That's what
you get when ActiveWorlds is run by a bunch of Juno babies.

The best alternative is always to halt all production and waste a few hours
bashin the stupidity in your audience. Good for the goodies, embarassing for
the baddies. :) hehehe.

Nornny

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Aug 14, 2001, 11:52am

Wing, if you'd like, you could use the Techno Event Center in the world
Techno to host an event next time. The world is only a PS16, but any
citizen is free to use the northern section of the world for a speech,
event, announcement, etc. More information can be found at Techno's Web
site, located at http://techno.stuff-x.com/.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://aw.stuff-x.com/
PGP Key ID: 0xAC0E7073 (for non-commercial use)

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Aug 14, 2001, 12:02pm

Awwwww....Wing....please don't give up:(
What you guys did was fun!
I think it's a great idea and ABNtv's idea of doing it in a custom world
really should be considered more:)
Heck, ya'll could make a more realistic tv set (although what you built in
AW Prime is fantastic!)
Thank you again for letting me be a part of it and for the beauuuuuutiful
award!
Huggggggggs:)
Bit:)

Aug 14, 2001, 12:51pm

Ohhh! I missed it :-|

Anyways, I've hosted some events in the past, but never ever ejected anyone. It's way better to solve it in other ways. Troublemakers
ar avatars who love the "cat & mouse" game. If there's nobody chasing them, the game will turn out to be rather boring... Always handle
the first troublemaker in a clever way, or else s/he will tg all her/his friends and the trouble really occours. I wouldn't ignore the
person totally (anyone attending and asking for attention deserves to get noticed, it's only polite, unless it's already stated that
nop comments from the audience will be heard). Instead you could make some fun of it all, welcoming the person, applauding the
comments, or make fun of them. 'Thank you for contributing to the show', telling the audience to applaude the person who on such short
notice accepted to help 'keeping the audience warm', etc. If the programme allows you to improvise a little, call the person to stage
as a spontanous' guest to the show making a fool of him/her up there (present him as a typical example of the avatars who can not think
itself but is operated by aliens)?...

Well, don't take all this too seriously, but it *is* impossible to plan any longer event in AW, and expect to be able to follow a
detailed script minute to minute. There will always occour things that 'ruins' the plan, but hey - this *is* the challenge for all
hosts:). And the audience will expect unforseen things to happen, too, nobody would blame the host for that, beeing technical server
stuff or troublemakers. Allways include 10 mins during the planned programme to handle such stuff. If everything works fine it
shouldn't be any problem to fill 10 mins at the end of the show, or to close a little earlier.

Well... take it or leave it:) I'll try to attend your next show, wearing a MrTourist avatar, hoping for attention, lol...:)

Bille

[View Quote] > Today was my first time on the administration time of an inworld event. A TV show for ABN, a rather complex undertaking requiring
> synchronization of various people and events.
>
> http://www.awnews.com/article.php?s=196 for more info on the show, that's not what I'm here to talk about.
>
> The show went off without a hitch on it's own, but the crowd had quite a few bad apples. Unfortunately, even with a Peacekeeper
> present, little was able to be done about them. Even though they were placing obscene xsign.rwx objects with some sexually explicit
> wav files in the studio, nothing was able to be done. For much of the show, two of us spent our time bump warping them across
> alphaworld into a bump warp trap we'd built for this type of situation, into void, stuff like that.
>
> The PK was able to give us the luxury of giving them a stern talking to in whisper, though one made us swear not to report him to
> AWC or the PKs for his actions before he'd stop and leave (Wheres the logic? A PK was RIGHT THERE)
>
> From this experience, we learned never to trust in people's common sense or decency under any circumstances and never to host a
> non-audience participation event in Alphaworld. 90% of the comments by visitors during the show were from the few bad apples.
>
> "How am I supposed to laugh at a nerd host?"
> "At least put on a good midi"
> "SOMEONE WARPED ME"
> "I'm going to delete this place"
> "I'm a hacker"
> "I WANNA HOST! I'LL BE BETTER AT IT"
>
> However, I'd like to thank the two or three people that had the decency to keep their mouths shut until afterwards and have respect
> for what we were doing, and applauded our efforts afterwards.
>
> Alphaworld is currently USELESS for events because of the bad apples that just look to party crash. I don't know what can be done
> about it, but somthing certainly should be. Thanks for reading.

Aug 14, 2001, 4:31pm

Hard to ignore them when ABN is taping and they are trying to get into the
shot. :)

SW Chris

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