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That happens very rarely in Second Life. Being a jerk in Second Life has an annoyance radius of about 100 meters. The world is the size of Los Angeles or Greater London. This gives the system considerable resistance to annoyances. Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Unlike the 2D web, there's not much ability to annoy large numbers of people. There's no way to broadcast spam. There are no "retweets".

If you hold an event on your own land, you can block people, or require they be in a your group just to get in. You can prevent objects owned by others from entering. You can kick people out and send them to their home location. You can even use weapons they can't use on your property to apply large physical forces to their avatar and kick them up a few thousand meters. That's usually considered overkill. Property owners have more than enough tools to deal with problems. This is why Second Life needs only a tiny "governance" unit.

I have a virtual motorcycle shop in an adult area of Second Life and I'm not seeing annoyances like that. All the action is in nightclubs and people's own houses, just like real life.




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