[sldev] CAPTCHA to validate land sales.

[Taran Rampersad]

The interface does NOT stop land from being shown immediately once set 
for sale. That is pointedly NOT there, so I fail to see how the response 
deals with the request.

Harold Brown wrote:
> The interface already has a "think about what you are doing screen"
> The interface already has a "You must select to sell to anyone or a 
> specific AV"
> The Land Search already has a throttle on the amount of data you can 
> get in a period of time. (Do a land search and try rapidly changing 
> pages back and forth)
> There is already a delay before the land set for sale is visible on 
> the "For Sale" list (I've helped people verify their land settings 
> before and it took a couple minutes for the plot to show up to verify 
> on the land sale screen)
> Most everything you want is already there... people just do not use them.
> On 10/4/07, *Matthew Dowd* <matthew.dowd at hotmail.co.uk 
> <mailto:matthew.dowd at hotmail.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Well, my suggestion (and others have made it too) would be a five
>     minute moratorium after land is set for sale during which time
>     *only* those present on the sim when the land was set for sale can
>     buy.
>
>     It provides a breathing space for second thoughts, mistake
>     correction, correction of mispriced land due to software
>     glitches/lag etc. before a bot can run in and purchase the land.
>
>     It supports the typical scenario of "buyer was present and no-one
>     else was so I thought it was safe to set to sale to anyone and
>     that setting for sale to a specific person was just an additional
>     sequence of unnecessary steps..."
>
>     It *is* theoretically possible that someone could get around this
>     by running enough bots - either as many bots as mainland sims, or
>     at least a large enough number that there is a good statistical
>     probability of being in a sim when land is set for sale...
>
>     Matthew
>
>
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>         So what complaint do we really have?
>         1. The interface is so confusing it causes people to make
>         mistakes in selling land
>         2. Land Bots can find and buy land faster then a human
>
>
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