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Oct 15, 1998, 9:03pm

I wish that Novices didn't have access to the 'RATING' under general
options until they registered, they should be allowed the lowest rating
only.

Reasons.. Some 8,9 or 10 year old simply clicks on X, not what I call a
good protection system!..When registering a payment method is needed
which means an adult is involved and as such is allowing his child to
use the AW software.

Also.. World Owners could ban novices in non private worlds by simply
raising the 'Rating'...which gives the novices yet another reason to
register and world owners the option to ban them.

Comments..

Klassi

Oct 15, 1998, 9:16pm

AlphaWorld is PG - are you suggesting we ban tourists from AW too? And
after PG is R, and I don't think one can rate AlphaWorld R very well :)

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Oct 15, 1998, 10:38pm

No offense klassi, i see what you mean about it being easy, but i have never
seen an X - rated world, if there is any they are probably private.

Raptor
REINSTATE PROTAGONIST!!!!!!
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Oct 15, 1998, 11:42pm

Dthknight,

Need you really ask... Ok so tourists can only enter non X rated worlds, that
would give world owners the option to ban them when they wanted simply by
changing the worlds rating. Why have a rating system in place if a 10 year
old can simply select X at will.

Klassi

[View Quote] > AlphaWorld is PG - are you suggesting we ban tourists from AW too? And
> after PG is R, and I don't think one can rate AlphaWorld R very well :)
>
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Oct 15, 1998, 11:55pm

No offense taken Mike,

The whole point is to give world owners the option to have the control over
tourists entering their worlds, at the moment it is a select 40 odd private
group or everybody. As most world owners know tourists can do and say what they
like and it is virtually impossible to keep track of them, ok so a PK my get an
IP address but many are pool addresses. Personally I have nothing against
tourists having been one myself :-) but at times I would like the option to
just have invited friends in my world, at the moment as it slowly takes shape I
am not that bothered. So summing up I don't want to close my world, I would
rather control it and the X Rating which isn't really used for much seems an
ideal way.

Klassi



[View Quote] > No offense klassi, i see what you mean about it being easy, but i have never
> seen an X - rated world, if there is any they are probably private.
>
> Raptor
> REINSTATE PROTAGONIST!!!!!!
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Oct 16, 1998, 5:29am

The X means that X rated activity's are going on in that world. Not that
tourists aren't allowed. A better way would be a checkbox for a worldowner:
"Allow tourists (y/n)" or something alike. The rating system is not meant as
an absolute protection, just to help people who don't want to get in a world
above a certain rating. However, I don't think that a "you can't enter this
world, no tourists allowed" sounds very friendly to tourists.

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Oct 16, 1998, 9:00am

[View Quote] How about a bot programmed to eject tourists (after yelling their name in bold).
LOL LOL LOL

<hey, I AM just kidding>

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Oct 16, 1998, 9:03am

[View Quote] Oops! Wouldn't putting an X rating on your world *attract* the sort of people
you want to avoid?

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Oct 16, 1998, 7:02pm

tourists Can be public speakers :-) they get their "name" in bold! hehe... can't
access tjhe special avatars though. Do they have ejection rights?

grover

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Oct 16, 1998, 8:10pm

X rating my world, hmmm.. Well they wouldn't know it was X rated, so I doubt it
would attract people looking for X rated stuff/chat etc. I bet most select the X
rating anyway :-))..

Klassi

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Oct 16, 1998, 8:15pm

Yep I know, that was my point to make it so tourists cannot enter X rated world
as certain tourists can be 9 or 10 years old, so it would be a small world crowd
control method as well as a 'Child' protection from adult material check....Most
know that 10 year olds often teach their parents how to operate computers, even
worse when they are 13/14 pretending to be 18/19 and chatting up/to people of
that same age..

Klassi

[View Quote] > The X means that X rated activity's are going on in that world. Not that
> tourists aren't allowed. A better way would be a checkbox for a worldowner:
> "Allow tourists (y/n)" or something alike. The rating system is not meant as
> an absolute protection, just to help people who don't want to get in a world
> above a certain rating. However, I don't think that a "you can't enter this
> world, no tourists allowed" sounds very friendly to tourists.
>
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Oct 17, 1998, 10:50am

Registered users can be 9 or 10 years old also.

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Oct 17, 1998, 12:23pm

what i was trying to get to was that if a tourist asks if he can get his name in bold,
you Can say yes!! hehe

grover

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Oct 17, 1998, 5:26pm

Agreed they can be 9 or 10 years old BUT who registered for them, normally an
adult who by doing so is now obligated to censor and regulate their childs usage
of AW.

Klassi

[View Quote] > Registered users can be 9 or 10 years old also.
>
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Oct 19, 1998, 7:49pm

I like it!! Good idea!
~Lightwave
>How about a bot programmed to eject tourists (after yelling their name in
bold).
>LOL LOL LOL
>
><hey, I AM just kidding>
>
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Oct 19, 1998, 10:13pm

[View Quote] Oh great, now look what I've gone and done! :-o

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Dec 17, 1998, 6:18am

[View Quote] Oops, sorry for being unclear Grover; the *bot* has PS capabilities (I assume
this is the world owner's bot).

Ejection: most people hate it when it happens to them.

Being greeted by name when all you want to do is lurk quietly for awhile: a fair
number of people dislike this as well, especially if done in *bold*.

So I was just making a nasty comment :-/ but in jest ;-D

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