Make sharing account age optional
Extrude Ragu
Recently the desire to not share account age has been a hot topic on the SecondLife Community Forums.
I think it would be nice for residents if we had the ability to choose not to share our account age in our profiles. This could be an account setting somewhere on https://secondlife.com/my/ for example.
Most residents are happy to share all kinds of things about themselves, but are less happy when information about themselves is shared on their behalf without being given a choice.
I definitely understand why someone would want to hide their account age, and I also know why people might want to know someones account age - I still think it should be the residents choice whether or not to share this information.
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Journey Bunny
On the reverse-side, some areas offer newbie-friendly content and free items--but only for accounts
younger
than a certain age. Prevents RP groups from camping newbie sites and many other things.Extrude Ragu
On the technical side, to avoid breaking scripts, the simulator could simply return a constant something like 0/0/0000 if the resident has chose not to share their account age.
The ability could be restricted to accounts +30 days old, if security systems that rely on detecting newbies is a concern.
Coffee Pancake
Extrude Ragu I say break those scripts. SL has a long history of being hostile to new users and killing retention. This needs to end.
Mystere8 Resident
Extrude Ragu I agree with you on this point. I would even venture to say 60 days. There's no reason a new person should want to hide their born date unless they are an alt and have ill intentions.