Add a "Disable Sitting for Non-Group Members" Parcel Option to Protect Resident Privacy (Particularly in Linden Homes)
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xPendableNPC Resident
COMPONENTS: Server / Land & Parcel Options
PROBLEM: Premium Linden Homes covenants permanently lock parcel public access to open. This creates a security loophole that griefers exploit to violate resident privacy.
Using camera-zoom from outside parcel borders, unauthorized avatars can click and "force-sit" on furniture inside a house. Because Linden Home security systems enforce a mandatory 15-second warning delay before ejection, malicious users have a massive window to execute this exploit.
Even if furniture scripts (like AVsitter) are strictly set to Group Only, the Second Life engine physically moves the intruder onto the object for a split second before the script can un-sit them. This micro-second interaction completely scrambles the animation layout, shifts camera angles, disrupts the current residents, and triggers script engine error crashes.
IMPACT: For many premium members, Second Life is a vital medium used to sustain and explore real-world, long-distance relationships. Our leased homes are personal sanctuaries. When anonymous users exploit camera mechanics to force their way into a private room and disrupt intimate furniture animations, it constitutes a severe violation of privacy that triggers real-world emotional distress and trauma. Leaving paying customers unable to protect their private spaces actively drives them to look for alternative platforms.
PROPOSED SOLUTION: Please add a toggle feature inside World > About Land > Options (similar to Object Entry or Run Scripts filters) that states: "Allow other Residents to: Sit on Objects" with checkboxes for [ ] Everyone and [ ] Group.
If the Everyone box is unchecked, the server should completely reject any click-to-sit raycast actions originating from an avatar who is not wearing the parcel's active group tag. This server-side check completely neutralizes the camera-clicking exploit. It keeps Linden Home regions physically accessible for mainland exploration while giving premium residents the baseline privacy protections required to feel safe in their homes.
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WeFlossDaily Resident
I don't think I've ever missed the absence of the laugh react button so much.
Kerra Rhiadra
This is already possible with scripts:
The script operates so quickly that nobody outside the group can actually sit.
Haridsam Resident
Excellent suggestion!
Extrude Ragu
Agree with the problem, but not the solution.
There is no need to involve groups in this. Just check if the agent is actually in the same parcel
squidpaladin Resident
Linden Homes can't be deeded to groups. If you don't want a semi-public house, a Linden Home is NOT for you. I'm failing to understand the problem, and the supposed "script engine error crashes".
Rowan Amore
squidpaladin Resident. They can be set to group which is all that would be needed. It would allow the use of objects/sit just as it allows members of the group to rez.
diamond Marchant
excellent idea!
Garnet Psaltery
People seem to find my home too boring to invade but I hate being startled by sudden appearances when I'm there so would welcome this option just in case.
Lucifera Morningstar
You could just take the example of an existing feature: the checkbox for allowing people outside the parcel to hear sound and see chat. Make a checkbox for "allow people outside the parcel to click-to-sit on furniture" that could be simply unchecked, instead of worrying about groups.
misstoriblack Resident
linden home cannot be deeded to a group ...
xPendableNPC Resident
misstoriblack Resident Even if you cannot 'deed' it to group, you can 'set' it to a group. This is done to allow people to place items on your parcel. It is what my wife and I use so that she can also decorate on my parcel.
misstoriblack Resident
xPendableNPC Resident then it's very simple ... it's a script problem. Not a Linden problem ...
xPendableNPC Resident
misstoriblack Resident Were it a script problem, I could deal with it. I am a scripter and I am proposing a hard coded solution.
misstoriblack Resident
xPendableNPC Resident Then the object should be deeded to a group OR alternatively the land must be deeded to a group. Otherwise it's an open door to all sort of weird behavior.
As a scripter you should understand the need for coherent and predictable behavior.
Holocluck Henly
Other Bellisseria residents would be immune, right? I don't recall our being able to deed Linden Homes land to a group. In general do you find this scenario to be low priority when people are attracted to join SL for a Linden Home?
I can see where this is worthwhile beyond Linden homes otherwise.
Logan Elf
Holocluck Henly Parcel settings affect all residents, regardless of whether they own a Linden Home or not. This proposal is about parcel settings, so deeding is irrelevant -- deeding is about transferring ownership of a parcel to a group, and with group ownership the permissions defined in the group take over. You just need to set the parcel's group for the current parcel "group" settings in the about land options to apply.
Holocluck Henly
Logan Elf Just checked my property there. Yeah it's set to group. I don't play musical homes, so it's been a while. Forgot whether it was just a question of adding access on the control panel.
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