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Bot-avatar Pesters Second Life Users (For Science!)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yeah-sure-it-is dept.

holy_calamity writes "A bot-controlled avatar that tracks down lone avatars in Second Life and purposely invades their personal space has been created by UK researchers. The idea was to see if users value their virtual personal space. Bots avatars are not encouraged by Linden Labs — although this one is being deployed by academics, presumably spam-avatars (spavatars?) won't be far behind."

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  1. More Second Life spam? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why does Slashdot give so much coverage to Linden Labs? Are they being paid or what?

    I mean I don't know a single person that plays Second Life.