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Dealing with Griefers Part 2:
Hear No Evil
Second Life is a wild and wonderful place, but this sometimes means it is a noisy place too. In the physical world, you can sit with a group of friends in a crowded café, and sight lines, directional sound, physical proximity and differences in vocal quality all help you to tune out the surrounding "noise" and concentrate on the conversation at your table alone. In the virtual world, however, we don't have these cues to guide us. Everyone's chat appears as text on your screen and trying to pick out the messages you want to see from those you don't can sometimes be a hassle.
When griefers are around, trying to taunt you with their words, having to look right at their chat in order to see what your friends are saying can be a real annoyance... So don't look at it!
Second Life, provides us with even more powerful means of ignoring unwanted chatter than does the physical world. If someone is verbally hassling, insulting or pestering you, using language you find inappropriate, making unwanted solicitations, whining, shouting or in any other way attempting to grief you with chat, don't talk back -- just hit "Mute".
As we learned in the last lesson, if you allow a griefer to engage you in a verbal battle, you encourage the griefer's inappropriate behaviour. If, however, you completely ignore whatever the griefer is saying, you discourage the inappropriate behaviour and the griefer will eventually give up. Second Life's Mute feature allows you to do this easily.
Doesn't matter if the griefer is right in your face. Doesn't matter if the griefer is shouting. Doesn't matter how obscene the griefer's words are. If you Mute the griefer, the griefer's language is completely removed from your Second Life.
There are plenty of ways to Mute a griefer in Second Life:
1. If you have the griefer in your sights, right-click on his avatar and select Mute from the pie menu.
2. If the griefer herself is not easily clickable, open your Chat History, click on the arrow at the top to pull down the list of recent chatters, select the griefer's name, and hit the Mute button.
3. You can also pull down your View menu to open your Mute List and select Mute resident...
This will open the Person Chooser to allow you to select a resident from your inventory (if you have his calling card) or type his name (or part of it) in the Person Chooser and hit Find. Select the griefer from the list of names that match your query and hit Select to add him to your Mute List.
4. You will also find that handy Mute button on the bottom right corner of a person's Profile.
Muting is much easier and more effective than allowing yourself to be drawn into a fight!
But what about those times when the source of annoying chatter isn't an avatar directly but a scripted object which she left behind? In this case, the griefer has already flown off to cause problems for someone else and you're stuck with her legacy. Or are you?
Not at all!
Objects can be Muted in much the same fashion as Avatars.
1. If you can see the offending object, right-click on it, select More, and then select Mute.
2. If the object itself is not easily clickable, open your Chat History, click on the arrow at the top to pull down the list of recent chatters, select the object's name, and hit the Mute button.
3. You can also pull down your View menu to open your Mute List and select Mute object by name...
This will open the Mute object by name window which allows you to mute an object by typing its name in the text input area. You must type the object's name exactly for this feature to work. Then hit Okay to add the object to your Mute List.
Learning to use Second Life's Mute feature can provide you with a much calmer, quieter and more peaceful virtual life, but an avatar intent on causing trouble can find other means to do so. What do you do, for instance, if you're peacefully standing around in Second Life, chatting with friends or admiring the view, trying to build or lining up a scene for a snapshot, and someone starts shoving you around? Answer: Sit your ground.
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Special thanks to Sally Savard and Jamie Jonas
for their appearances in the Hear No Evil tutorial.
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