Update on Age Verification
As you may be aware, immediately after submitting the details found in that language study book and verifying “my” age that way, I contacted Linden Lab to let them know that their system was accepting bad data, giving rise to false positives entering the system. I dutifully entered a support ticket, expecting them to investigate, see me openly tell them I am age-verifeid with bad data, and cancel my status as age-verified.
Linden Lab has closed the support ticket, and I am still officially noted as age-verified.
So there you have it. LL is properly informed, through their formal channels for such information, that there is bad data in the age verification system. I raised a ticket to highlight this, and they closed the ticket, and did not remove my status as age-verified. This means they are either unable or unwilling to remove false positives from the age verification database, even when properly notified of such false positives.
Consider that the official reason for this system is to prevent minors from accessing adult content. In my opinion, this demonstrates that the system is not able to fulfil the stated mission.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:48 am
Well I believe that the onus is on you, you knowingly lied to the age verification system and this will not hold up for you in a court of law (if you where 16, say)..
*Some* level of trust in this sytem is required — sure it’s not foolproof, but then very little is.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Yes, I guess it is true that I knowingly lied to the system. But by immediately contacting LL afterwards to report the false positive, I believe I am exonerated. I was simply testing the system for them, and I would gleefully return back to unverified status if only the system would let me.
But think about it. People are going to try to game this system, and lie to it. Especially those who should be blocked by it. A person who would normally be allowed through has no reason to lie. A person who should be blocked has every reason to lie. And if it can’t stop dishonest people, it isn’t working any better than a “I am over 18″ click-through button.