Posts Relating To: copybotting

Second Life and Poor User Centered Design

Yes­ter­day I wrote a post about how copy­bot­ting can essen­tially be seen as the con­sequence of bad design, I spoke about how the design of Second Life is such that some people are will­ing to take great risks in-order to com­pensate for design related prob­lems. I think it’s safe to say that much of those …

December 16, 2009 – 2:43 pm | By Aaron | Posted in Thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Copybotting as ‘intentional human error’

I’ve been read­ing quite a lot of blog posts on the topic of copy­bot­ting recently. For those who don’t know, copy­bot­ting is the blanket term used to cover Second Life pir­acy. Its name comes from the pro­cess where an auto­mated avatar (bot) sys­tem­at­ic­ally inspects and then rep­lic­ates an in-world item — although it now tends …

December 15, 2009 – 2:00 pm | By Aaron | Posted in Thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)