Lets stop newbies from being recommended places they can't go
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Extrude Ragu
## Background
There are many destinations on the destination guide that will immediately eject or ban a new user because their account age is not sufficiently old enough.
Being recommended a place to visit, only to immediately be kicked out is a terrible user experience, and leads to the user thinking they have nowhere they can visit. This is espescially important with regard to new users as first impressions really matter.
I recommend if you have ten minutes to watch this video by Micky D who tried Second Life in 2021 to get a feeling for what this experience is like:-
## Lets fix it!
We need to stop recommending users places they can't visit. Having the appropriate metadata for the destination guide to make recommendations is important.
- Firstly, make minimum account age a property of parcels, that is configurable via a parcel setting. This way, the destination guide can check the minimum account age against the user account browsing the destination guide before making recommendations.
- Once implemented, forbid destination guide parcels from using scripted age enforcement, they must instead use the new parcel setting.
- Update the destination guide, to check if the parcel has a minimum age setting, and avoid recommending destinations to users they can't visit.
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Spidey Linden
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Kyle Linden
Hello Extrude,
Is this actually still an issue or something that was previously reported in Jira? We believe we regularly curate the list of Destinations in the DG to avoid this experience for new residents.
Please let us know what regions may be causing this problem.
Thanks!
Rheia Silvercloud
I am in thorough agreement with the horrible beginning user experience. Even as a veteran of Second Life for almost 2 decades, I find it distressing and daunting to travel Mainland roads, see a gorgeous build, but be unable to do anything but park and look from across the road so to speak. So many places are locked off that any user, new or elsewise, gets the feeling of in general not being very welcome.
Having this kind of experience early on is an almost-sure way to discourage both exploration, admiration for beautiful / well laid out builds, and eventually to a user who gives up entirely on exploration. When everything is locked behind an age gate, a payment-in-use gate, or a scripted "cannot wear avatar / item / etc. made by X user for ZZZ reason.", the entire world, ban lines notwithstanding, feels duller and hostile and unwelcoming, and that's a terrible thing for a virtual world built on the joy and wonder of the art and experience.
Toothless Draegonne
Upvoted, also make this setting something applicable region wide, so EMs can block new accounts via the region/estate panel with one click, but with the same conditions as the OP.