Ghetto grid: Katharine Berry slams Lab's negligence
Famous Teen Second Life user Katharine Berry has spoken out on conditions in Linden Lab's Teen Grid. While, of course, there are rules about content and conduct, they're neither well-followed, says Berry, nor well-enforced.
'Of course, these rules are completely ignored ... Once upon a time, in 2005, Linden Lab would keep track of these things. Today, in 2008, they do not,' asserts Berry, citing an example in her experience where an unauthorized adult in Teen Second Life took more than a year to be removed.
Berry's particular gripe seems to be Linden Lab's lack of care, 'Linden Lab routinely screw up and put [main grid] classifieds in search (with the "mature" option set to "on", for that matter). People periodically accidentally (or intentionally) teleport to the main grid.'
The Second Life Teen grid is jammed away in an obscure corner of the main (adult) grid and shares databases to a large degree. Barriers exist to keep the adult areas hidden from the teens and vice versa, but many users on both sides have experienced the permeability of those barriers.
Comparatively speaking, Teen Second Life seems to be small and has only a small number of active users, and users of it seem to feel that the service is somewhat ghettoized by Linden Lab -- a largely ignored populace and aspect of the broader Second Life service. If you think Linden Lab is fairly uninvolved in main grid affairs, then the Teen grid seems to fall at the bottom of the Lab's attention-ladder, according to many teen grid users.
Berry herself, is perhaps one of Teen Second Life's most well-known users, multiply lauded for software, a lightweight client and web-services built to work with the Second Life service.
