Description of Community Standards:
We are allowed to create and share content in Second Life and the Second Life also provided communities for us to interact with each other. However, if everyone does what they want to do in Second Life, it will cause confusion. So it is necessary to have some community standards to constrain users’ behavior in order to help promote respect, peace and an enjoyable experience for all users. Community Standards are some rules that users should compliance with. These standard rules may result in restrictions on your access to the service, including account termination.
Community Standards – Linden Lab: https://www.lindenlab.com/legal/community-standards
Here are the main standards of Second Life:
Intolerance
Second Life encourages social interaction between users in different countries. It is prohibited to use derogatory or derogatory language or images based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexual orientation. It also prohibits marginalization, degrading or defaming the behavior of users or groups.
Harassment
Harassment can take many forms. Communication or performance in a manner that is offensive, intimidating, threatening, or causing annoyance or alerting is not allowed.
Assault
Any violent behavior against a user’s avatar, including intimidation or bullying, such as repeated shooting or promotion, is intolerable. It is also not allowed to create or use scripts that individually or permanently locate users and prevent users from enjoying the service.
Disclosure
Sharing personal information about other users directly or indirectly without their consent – including but not limited to gender, religion, age, marital status, race, sexual orientation, alternative account name (including account status, such as whether it is suspended , suspend or activate), and beyond the real world location provided in the user profile is not allowed. In addition to reporting abuse or any policy violations to Linden Lab, remote monitoring, posting or sharing of conversations is prohibited without the consent of the participants.
Disturbing the Peace/Global Attacks
Everyone wants to have an enjoyable experience in Second Life, so you are not allowed to do some actions that may cause slow server performance or may inhibit another user’s ability to enjoy the Service. For example, disrupting events or user conversations such as through the use of repetitive sounds causing echo effects, or unmuting your mic when it should be muted, spamming such as the repeated posting of advertising or self-promotional content, posting interpersonal disputes or personal negative commentary publicly when such communications should occur through private channels of communication and so on.
Report abuse
Second Life strongly recommends that users report violations of community guidelines or any other policies. Second Life reviews all such abuse reports and will strictly maintain the identity of journalists.
Demonstration of how to avoid violating standards
Given that the community designated General then it is important to advertise or make available content that is considered sexually explicit. In addition, sexually-oriented objects are not sold in this community. For this reason, the user should desist from being involved in sexual activities in the community.
Demonstrating adherence to the community standards
In demonstrating the adherence to the community standards of Music_Exilir of Life community I have attached the picture below to show I did not engage in any sexual activities.
Demonstration of reporting abuse
There was no abuse in the community. The only activity that had been encountered is when a child was requesting for funding.
What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of the Community Standards?
The strengths of the community standards is that it accommodates everyone. Therefore, a user will not have to be worried about sexual content in the community. However, on the other hand, it denies revenue generation in that some of the basic things such as a bed cannot be sold because of sexual connotations tied to it.
What criteria have you based your judgement on?
The criteria used has been based on the community standards of Music_Exilir of Life community.
How are Community Standards relevant in MUVEs?
Community Standards are relevant because they assist in the maintenance of law and order. In addition, it prevents violations in the communities.
What is the importance of each component part?
Facilitate efficiency in the manner in which the community runs.
How do those components complement each other?
The components perform different functions that complement each other.
How can Community Standards work effectively and efficiently in MUVEs?
Community Standards can work effectively if the users adhere to them.
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