[sldev] llGiveInventory comedy

[Laurent Laborde]

I have this problem every week and it caps my IM :(
And you're lucky he explained the problem.
some time i just get :
- kerunix
- kerunix ?
- Hello ?
- online ?
- kerunix
- hi !
- kerunix ? IM me
- Are you online ?
- kerunix
- ...

On 7/14/07, Jason Giglio <gigstaggart at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tateru Nino wrote:
> > That's an easy one. Someone is interacting with something of yours that
> > is using llGiveInventory() (a notecard giver or vendor or whatever)
> > while they are in BUSY mode.
>
> That's not as bad as one guy who tried to buy something from one of my
> vendors when he had me muted for some reason.
>
> That caused a lot of "human induced spam".
>
> I got the following offline IMs, all at once when I checked them:
>
> (Note that <thing> was a 99L object)
>
> [15:06] him: i
> [15:07] him: was buying <thing> at armory island...but nothing received
> [15:07] him: can you help me please
>
> [15:09] him: hello
>
> [15:10] him: gigs
>
> [16:59] him: hello
> [16:59] him: hey
>
> [17:00] him: i bout <thing> you gpt the money but i got nothin no object
>
> [17:02] him: Date: 2007-06-13 15:05:36  Type: Payment  Desc: <thing>
> Region: Armory Island  Destination: Gigs Taggart
> [17:02] him: i didnt receive nothin
> [17:03] him: im gonna call linden lab if you do nothin
>
> [17:06] him: hello
> [17:07] him: what kind of merchant are you
>
> [17:31] him: es tu la
> [17:31] him: parle tu francais
> [17:31] him: ou anglais
> [17:33] him: ineed to get what i paid for it
>
> Once I got on, and he was IMing me, and he couldn't see what I was
> saying in reply apparently, I figured out he had me muted.  I had to ask
> someone else to IM him for me to get him straightened out.
>
>
> Lessons from this comedic incident?
>
> A) I think it's too easy to accidentally mute someone.  Right click,
> move down a little and mash the button 3 times and you've muted someone
> or an object.  I know I've accidentally muted things before.
>
> B) If there is some way mute can be overridden when they have recently
> paid the object giving the inventory, might help alleviate this problem.
>   Maybe remove object/person from mute list when you pay them.
>
> -Jason
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