On 14/01/2011 7:13 AM, Altair Sythos Memo wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:17:27 -0500 > Erin Mallory<angel_of_crim...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> This is slightly off topic but as the ramifications of what will >> happen when the old profiles are taken down is starting to get out >> there, merchants and content creators are starting to panic about >> what these new profiles mean for them. There is a a ton of content >> that is going to be broken by this, much of it content that >> businesses rely on heavily. a more full list can be found in web-3509 >> but a number of rewards systems, venders, and security devices found >> within hundreds if not thousands of SL stores are built heavily >> around the old profile pages and cannot be easily updated or replaced >> before the old profiles will likely be taken down... Even if >> businesses begin to switch over, that involves changing out sometimes >> hundreds of venders, everything associated with the venders (like >> gift cards etc), and during all of that the ability to make new >> content is affected. Many SL businesses are teetering on the edge of >> bankrupcy already, including many where this is the SOLE or largest >> percentage of income to those that simply are incapable of getting an >> income any other way. So I'm pleading with the lindens and devs on >> this list to PLEASE start putting some thought to how to mitigate >> this... > i'm sorry but don't understand how web interface to show profile data > can involve business..... scripts still work in both directions > (groups, key2name, the new istr about display names), and web interface > is just a re-design of the "old" profile in sidebar (upper piece > SL-photo +SL desc, just under RL photo +info, on a sie groups and > picks), is just a interface design... you can stil ask for friendship, > open an IM, offer a teleport, invite to a group (and bot can still > invite to groups), so how shops, security systems and other can be > involded by web profiles? > Some businesses used the presence of picks to their locations in a user's profile as a method of gaming the search system, and set up scripts that would scrape the previous version web-profiles for data about whether a particular person had those picks on their profile and autopay them trivial amounts for it if they kept the picks for a long enough period.
Since my understanding is that picks don't affect search-results any-longer, however, I don't see that as a huge problem. Some businesses still keep the practice up, however, believing that it still works. -- Tateru Nino http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/ _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
