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My name is Little Lost Linden and I used to live inside the virtual world of Second Life. I moved out for a little while, and now, I have decided to go back…
On my new journey, I will re-enter the world of Second Life disguised as a small piece of toast in search of strange phenomena and paranormal activity.
The study of my travels will be reported here…in The Bot Zone. Please enjoy your stay.
Little Lost Linden
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Hi LLL,
Looking at your post at NWN , I was thinking if we could not find a away to determine if a region contains bots or not. I was thinking about the difference between the minimum and the maximum number of avatars detected. I would expect that if a region has only bots, then the difference between the min. and the max. should be low.
So I wonder if you could provide me data:
- 20 regions with a high precentage of bots (and the number of bots present if possible)
- 20 regions (with high traffic) that have no bots
I’m going to look for a correlation between min./max. visitors and the above data.
Thanks,
Louis
Note: I’m leaving on vacation for 2 weeks, but will start the analysis once I’m back (in August).
Hey Louis.
I would love to provide you with the data but the bots move around too quickly to pinpoint them (by the time I post about any, within a day or two, they move to new\different regions).
There are some exceptions like the notorious Sensations Bots that will never go away, but your best bet for region bot detection is Tyche who hangs out at SL Universe. Tyche posts weekly updates on regions.
Tyche has the ability and knowhow to add bot detection capability into a survey bot. Currently Tyche has not added this capability to the survey bot, but admits it should be easily possible, however, Tyche holds back the ability due to a moral dillema (perhaps you could convince Tyche to show you how to add the bot survey technology to your land survey bots?).
Here is the thread that Tyche can be contacted in:
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/virtual-business/8523-new-second-life-sims-past-35.html
Also, you might want to try PikkuBot, a bot hosting company that tracks their bots currently online:
http://www.pikkubot.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=statistic
They usually have over a thousand and they might be able to give you the region names. They love to hype their bot statistics.
I’m a little confused as to why you would need 20 regions with high traffic that aren’t bots? Don’t you get all that info from Metaverse Business? I show you as a contact there.
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/08/top-july-sites-second-life.html
Top 20 Regions (with high traffic – real traffic, without bots – save Ilha which has many bots):
1.A Lesbian Paradise: 32, NA, 64
2.Cidade do Medo: 36, 80, 61
3.Sexy Islands: 21, 75, 59
4.Midnight Reflections: 17, NA, 57 – NEW FROM JUNE
5.LISBON INTER PRISE: 2, 65, 49
6.Old Foxwood: 19, NA, 46 – NEW FROM JUNE
7.Hy Brazil: 26, 63, 46
8.Franks Place 2: 29, 60, 46
9.Ilha Brasil: 11, 88, 46 – NEW FROM JUNE
10.Sweethearts: 22, 63, 43
11.Black Horse Country: 8, NA, 43 – NEW FROM JUNE
12.Italia 4 Milano: 7, 98, 43
13.escort oasis: 27, 60, 41
14.Second China: 0, 45, 40 – NEW FROM JUNE
15.Brasil Sul: 11, 61, 40
16.tempura island: 19, 56, 40 – NEW FROM JUNE
17.Ibiza: 19, 61, 40
18.Gor-jus Events: 21, 57, 38
19.GOL 8: 7, 59, 38
20.Baia Del Leone: 19, 72, 37 – NEW FROM JUNE
Hello,
My name is Grace DeVoll and I am an assistant to the Public Relations representative for Stanford’s Humanities Departments. I recently wrote an article that might interest you for your readers, and wanted to share it with you. A service-learning class at Stanford recently helped Stanford’s archivists put together an exhibit in the front of the Green Library of Humanities and Social Sciences. Second Life users are now permitted to enter Stanford’s libraries within the virtual world, and can view the exhibit digitally, a surprisingly realistic rendering of its real life counterpart. If you are interested in reading this article or sharing it with your readers, please visit the Humanities at Stanford website!
http://www.humanexperience.stanford.edu/brionesarchive
Best,
Grace DeVoll
Stanford ’11