[sldev] llGiveInventory comedy

[Tateru Nino]

Perhaps the thing to do is to generate an UNMUTE event if you IM someone
on your Mute list or pay them.

Laurent Laborde wrote:
> 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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