✨ Feature Requests

Hello! Please, add function for block IM from objects optional. I and many other SL residents receive daily spam of political, provocative, offensive and extremist content. This has been going on for over 2 years now, every day. Unfortunately, numerous reports to LL during all this time do not help. This spam is sent by a group of people using a scripted object that they rezz to the ground in the sandbox. This script send a IM message from this object to the nearby chat, using a list of avatars. The object's name changes randomly each time it is placed on the ground. After sending spam, the object is automatically deleted. Spam objects on the ground place fake avatars (bots), the number of which already exceeds several hundred, so banning them is useless. This problem with spam can be solved by adding a blocking IM from objects optional. For example, adding check box "Disable Object IM" to the preferences menu. Or add function to debug settings "DisableObjectIM (true/false)". Thank you!

Second Life’s search and traffic systems are in need of a revamp. New users I’ve invited consistently say “popular” places, ranked high by traffic, are ghost towns with bots or AFK avatars in skyboxes, and my own observations tend to make me agree. This misleads everyone, makes SL feel empty, and hurts creators and the grid’s growth. Unwanted content clogs search results, and discovery of active places is slow and frustrating, especially for new residents. ## Key Problems Weak Search Filters : Limited to rating, name, category, or traffic. Traffic is easily gamed by bots, pushing empty venues to the top. Bot Abuse : Parcels with no real activity contaminate search via bot-inflated traffic, misleading users and contributing to "dead grid" sentiment. No User Control : No way to blacklist unwanted search terms (extreme NSFW content even when searching for adult listings) or spammy keyword listings. Poor Visibility : New or active places (packed events) don’t show up until traffic updates the next day, while high-traffic venues from past events appear busy but are empty. Keyword Dependency : Searches require a keyword, blocking broad category browsing (for example all shopping listings), making it difficult to find listings if your English keyword does not match, say a JP land description, or the owner did not keyword the land description well. ## Proposed Solutions Enhanced Search Filters : - Sort by “current active users” (real-time avatar count, excluding scripted agents). - Blacklist specific search terms to filter unwanted content. - Blacklist individual parcels, listings, or owners, similar to Marketplace creator bans, to curate results. - "Newest/Oldest" sorting filter, perhaps use land claimed dates to let users search for the oldest or newest listings, helping new places get visibility, and letting new users know what places have been around for a long time! User Rating System : - Add parcel ratings for paid accounts (Premium, 3+ months) to ensure credibility. Remove ratings if accounts are banned. - Allow sorting by user ratings to help highlight genuine venues. Traffic System Overhaul : - Cap free account traffic at 10% (0.1 points/min vs. 1 point/min). - Use diminishing returns for long stays (1 point/min for first 60 min, 0.5 for next 60, 0.25 beyond). - Limit traffic generation to 16 hours/day per account to prevent 24/7 bot farming. (people have to sleep, this also reduces the weight adult "AFK" places get in search.) - Average traffic over a week, updating daily to avoid significant one-day event spikes, paired with “current users” filter for real-time discovery. ## Additional Thoughts Why Paid/3-Month Ratings? Limiting ratings to aged, paid accounts reduces fake reviews from bot farmers. Banning accounts removes their ratings, minimizing harm from aged bot farms when enforcement is applied. Free Account Cap Risks : Capping free accounts traffic contributions may frustrate new users supporting venues. An in-world tutorial (e.g., a button next to traffic in “About Land”) could explain Premium upgrades for full contribution. Enforcement Gaps : Traffic manipulation and undeclared scripted agents violate TOS to the best of my knowledge, but enforcement seems rare. A dedicated abuse report category could prompt faster parcel audits. Community Tools : Tools like BonnieBots show demand for real activity tracking. Baking similar analytics into SL’s systems could build trust and engagement, especially for new users unaware of third-party services. ## Closing Notes A fairer, more user friendly system will help keep users engaged, benefiting all of SL. Newcomers need clear, built-in tools, not third-party workarounds to find active places. These proposed changes let residents curate their experience and discover vibrant content easily. Thanks for reading and feel free to weigh in on this! (Note: Posted in User Interface as search and traffic are user-facing systems requiring UI updates if any of this is implemented.) (PS. If someone from Linden Lab sees this -please- advertise SL on varied social media and websites, any time I mention SL most people have never heard of it, and even as an active user I haven't seen any advertisements in ages.)

The Marketplace has the option to choose a level of maturity of the items being searched for. I would like that same option on the Events Calendar page here https://secondlife.com/my/community/events/index.php ? Whenever I bring up that page it's mostly adult events. I just close the page I'm not looking through all that to find a place to listen to some music or dance or get a cuppa. Thank you for considering.

It is no secret that most of the traffic and active userbase that Second Life experiences (and has historically experienced) is here for some form of NSFW content. Second Life has a long history of being an online digital space for kink and erotic RP, and much of the market is dominated by this fact. I, to be frank, think the fact the TOS still allows underage users after all this time to be delusional and dangerous and is in denial of the common demographic of Second Life, and is therefore negligently allowing minors to enter harm's way. No right minded parent would ever knowingly allow their child to sign up for Second Life, as the sexual nature of SL is not hard to find in a quick lookup online, and is impossible to avoid entirely even if relegated to only general sims. And if a minor is on Second Life, then to me that indicates they are not having their internet access actively monitored by a parent, and is exactly the demographic of person we need to be protecting . They are the most at risk from actual sexual predators and grooming online. "but won't kids just lie and sign up anyway?" yes! they will. And it's why we need to raise the age limit so we can meaningfully enforce their removal from second life. Without that, a linden can just shrug their shoulders and tell them to go to a general sim, without any meaningful followup or enforcement. This enforcement of not allowing underage users is typical of other NSFW online communities, and I'm baffled as to why we are just knowingly allowing minors onto a platform no child or teen has any business of being on. "but how will you even enforce it? i don't want to have to legally confirm my age" that is an entirely different topic altogether. this post is not about the ongoing internet-wide conversation about the methods of how to ensure strict online spaces for adults. this is about changing the baseline TOS. not having a way to confirm an age does not mean we have to just forgo a minimum age requirement baring minors altogether.

I've never liked "For Sale" or "For Rent" sky art displayed on the World Map. I think it's an ugly, cheap-looking eyesore and stupidly hides the actual land beneath it from actual view of potential customers on the World Map, which seems like a counter-productive thing for land owners to do. The World Map already has a "Land For Sale" filter built into the World Map, so there's no actual need for "For Sale" sky art signs to be rezzed inworld like they are. So "For Sale" sky art should be discouraged and stopped. However, no such "For Rent" filter currently exists in the World Map. I think it's time for a "Land For Rent" filter to be added to to the World Map.  Rental payment boxes owned by CasperVend (which is owned by Linden Lab now) rezzed into rentable parcels could potentially be linked into the World Map filter options. Land owners who wish to advertise their land for rent, but who chose not to use CasperVend payment boxes, could benefit from a new Land Settings option which then displays their land as "Land For Rent" in the proposed World Map filter option.

Right now some mainland areas have maybe 1 or 2 protected waters in front of them allowing them to be protected but un-sailable, it seems there's many areas like this and it seems to not make sense, maybe connecting some more water near these areas would add more value to these. Some people are unaware that some protected water is really not sailable in their area and if they are new to SL they may not realize this. I understand it costs money to do this but it's just a thought.

So i understand That This subject has been brought up more then 10 times and i feel its being ignored or shut down or not understanding the importance to it from linden labs. I also understand that it REQS you to go in the DATA base, and be tested etc. But! the fact that yal + the group limits But wont take the importance to this matter due it being lack of experience or Not running a club or Corporation or role play Community etc. We Really really! REALLYYYYY need more then 10 Role Limits in the Groups.Am a 2007 player and there is NO way! in Gods green earth this has not been brought up to Linden labs attention in the past and requested. So before u shut this Down Again....... please am asking of you to please tell us in deep detail Why Linden labs keeps shutting this down over n over n over n over. We just want 20 Roles a extra 10 Role limit =20 roles and were Set and yal will never see this pop up again from anyone. and yes... that means me to XD.

Let's invent a label - something simple, like "GenAI was used in whole or part in this object's manufacture" and then /require/ creators/vendors to label all of their relevant sales items with it. Let this label also be a tag or flag as part of an object's or sales vendor's properties, so that Residents don't have to struggle to know if an object is GenAI-"containing." Let this also be a tag or flag on the MP and in any other searchable interface where it makes sense to exist, so that Residents may include or exclude GenAI items in their search results. GenAI is not going anywhere. The ethics of its use are a separate matter. But Residents have a right to be informed of the tool's use in the creation of their purchased items, just as we have a right to know whether a food IRL has been genetically modified. Let Residents be advised of the use of GenAI to create purchasable goods, and thereby purchase according to their own preference. Please disregard, and accept my apology, if this issue has already been discussed/addressed. Thank you.

When rez permissions on land are restricted to a group, you currently have to set that group as active for you to be able to rez objects there. This poses an issue in that you may be in more than one such group and frequently move between two (or more!) areas with such permissions, as you have to remember to switch active groups every time. I currently have a HUD to deal with this on my behalf, but I'd like to be able to drop that and free up script memory whilst not having to remember to change groups. I propose rez permissions only require you be be in the required group, not to have it active. This is a similar request to https://feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requests/p/feature-request-automatic-group-switch-based-on-land-parcel , but instead I seek to do away with switching active groups altogether.

adding multiple partner boxes for poly families