Allow Business Accounts to Share Access Responsibly
under review
Deathrowdesigns Resident
As a long-time business owner in Second Life, managing operations efficiently is crucial. Recently, enforcement of the TOS on account sharing led to the deletion of our entire marketplace with over 2000 listings, severely disrupting our business. Deathrowdesigns (DRD) serves over 10,000 customers and manages more than 3,000 items, making single-person management infeasible.
I propose creating a system for obtaining written consent to share business accounts among trusted individuals, specifically for business operations. This would help businesses like ours continue to thrive without compromising account security. Additionally, it would ensure compliance with the TOS while providing a practical solution for businesses that need to share account responsibilities.
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apumia Resident
Currently I have a situation with my account. can't login for two days now. I made a ticket about it and it is under investigation. So I agree with this feature request. If I could handle my works with another account that could save my losses I am having right now. Hope it will be a very soon feature to use for small owners like me.
Roman Godde
I fully support this.
Kyrah Abattoir
I'd prefer LL to favor small single-person businesses...
BJoyful Resident
Kyrah Abattoir I think a huge powerful Store has many fans to support this Feature Request so that will be a boon from little businesses also ♥
ThundrCoder Resident
The most voted issue, please do something about it.
Lex Macabre
Please review this in detail as we desperately need it!
MadMacit Resident
Totally agree.
You cannot run a business with thousands of items and hundreds of thousands customers as a single man show.
You need a team, and you need to share accounts to manage a large inventory and the customers!
Folkloric Resident
Late to this, but would be great -- We absolutely support this idea.
Tapple Gao
a way to "buy/use items on behalf of another" would also be great for setting up a noob or lazy person's avatar:
- noob sets up a team
- noob invites a private shopper to team
- private shopper buys all the parts of an avatar for the team: body, head, hair, shoes, clothes, ao
- private shopper leaves team
- noob has a ready-to-use avatar
jaragleef Resident
Tapple Gao, making it easy for noobs to do this is a great way to get scammers exploiting noobs even worse than happens now. This is needed for businesses, but should be limited, restricted, and not easily avaliable to noobs.
Green Cloud
My suggestion would also be to identify the creator's profile (after a thorough review by Linden Lab) and, in the account profile of the Merchant/Creator who is consistently developing and seeking innovations for the community and meets certain requirements, label them as a merchant. One way to do this might be to mark it under the "Account" section in the profile, where it currently shows "resident" – instead, identify them as a Developer, someone who is actively working daily for the community.
Gwyneth Llewelyn
Green Cloud I love your idea, but it has two issues TBD...
- What criteria should LL use to do that 'thorough review'?
- Under which circumstances would such a special status be revoked, and would there be an appeal? (To whom?)
Green Cloud
Gwyneth Llewelyn Thank you, Gwyneth! Excellent points raised. Here are my suggestions:
- Criteria for thorough review:
Proven track record of active, ongoing contributions to the community (e.g., original content creation, consistent customer support, continuous technological innovation).
Clean history of compliance with Linden Lab guidelines and policies (no serious or frequent violations).
Periodic activity and engagement evaluations (e.g., quarterly or semi-annually).
- Circumstances for revocation of special status:
Special status could be revoked in cases of serious violations of LL policies (e.g., fraud, repeated copyright infringements, unethical behavior).
Appeals should be directed to a dedicated Linden Lab team responsible for managing these special accounts, and reviewed by an impartial panel to ensure fairness and transparency.
I believe clearly defined criteria and transparent procedures would greatly benefit the entire community.
sallyG1rl Resident
Why haven't they done this already? Only makes sense if you want to encourage developers to market designs and grow a business. ESPECIALLY when you get real coin for every sale, upload, etc.
REALLY makes sense for nonprofits and actual RL firms too. There was a time major companies tried to enter SL with their brand.
Gwyneth Llewelyn
sallyG1rl Resident it's one of those "historic" things — the whole grid setup revolves around the concept of one avatar, one login, one human being. "Breaking" the rules needs to do a major restructuring of the underlying database, affecting (literally)
billions
of items stored there. I can understand LL's excessive caution when applying such a drastic change.RL companies
and
organisations do
have a "personal", individual assigned to the Estate, and acts as the single point of contact with LL regarding that Estate — exactly like any other SL resident. The only
difference is how the invoicing is made (to send a legal invoice, LL requires payment in advance of at least 6 months).Load More
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