[sldev] RE: Re: Re: Patch to Address Debit Permission Spoofing

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you will never get people to RTFM. so your options on customer support are
to : 1. provide it, or 2. not provide it. pretty simple really.



On 5/25/07, Kamilion <kamilion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hm. I run a single-database networked vendor that carries many
> products from many people.
> Already, 50% of the people that get my vendor IM me to ask 'why is
> this asking for debit permissions' when it's clearly stated in:
>
> A: The documentation notecard that comes with it, at the very top, in
> all caps, and repeated 3 times
> B: When the vendor starts up, greets the new vendor owner, explains
> itself, and asks for permissions
>
> And after all that, AND handing out the script module that actually
> handles the money mod/copy/transfer, most of them tell me directly
> that they don't trust my vendor with debit permissions.
>
> Plus, my vendor also emails my logs email account on my domain on
> initial start up, which also records if the user accepted permissions
> or not -- a full 75% of the new users of the vendor system do not
> accept permissions... So in order to alter that, I had to adjust the
> vendor to act as a catalog-only system when permissions haven't been
> granted, and now I'm in the middle of writing a gift-certificate
> system so the vendor is still a viable sales tool.
> In order to attract anyone even using the system, I had to allow 10%
> of every sale to stay with the vendor's owner (which means 90% of the
> item cost is sent to the item's creator) just to stay afloat.
>
>
> I support the red-colored dialog patch, but the autodeny kind of
> scares me a little bit.
> Still, I think it's a good idea, and has it's merits.
>
> The main problem would be the classic "user = eye dee ten tee" (user =
> 1d10t) problem.
> I'd estimate that close to 70% of the SL userbase either arn't
> informed enough, or just don't care (more likely) enough to bother
> with learning how/why/when to use these features/protections.
>
> All this might do is slow down the problem, but that can be more than
> enough in itself, much like LL's new age verification system. It can't
> stop the problem, but it can mitigate it, and every little bit is
> something.
>
> At the very least, changing the debit permissions dialog to red would
> have a very good impact, except for the people like my friends who
> just rapidly click yes on every dialog because they can't be arsed to
> read it.
>
> -- Kamilion Schnook
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