Digg Virtual Objects From Within SL?
Well, I was all ready to anoint Babbage as my favorite Linden, but I can’t get his gadget to work. This post on the official Linden blog describes a HUD that lets you Digg objects inside the virtual world of Second Life, if I’m understanding it correctly. It uses the scanner function of the Linden Scripting Language to automatically highlight nearbby object, which you can then give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to. My copy, though, didn’t highlight anything. Has anyone else gotten this to work? If so, I’d love to hear from you, as this kind of thing is just the kind of functionality I think SL needs more of. If you want to try it out for yourself, you can pick up a copy at Babbage’s plot »in Ambleside«. Sounds very cool, so I’m hoping I’ve just done something wrong. [UPDATE: It works! Almost.]
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No good will come from this if the intent is, in fact, to post items to the Digg website and vote on them. The Digg community, on the whole, loves Second Life about as much as Valleywag does. If people start populating digg with SLURLs that require the SL client in order to view, the fallout will be horrendous on an epic scale.
As an active member of both communities, I beg people to ‘just say no’.
Yes, the Digg people really loathe SL and only vote for articles like Ulrika’s trash of SL.
On the other hand, if Digg were overwhelmed with stories/URLs from another community, well, it might just change the face of the community. Who said these communities on the Internet for God’s sake are set in stone and have to be as fixed and rigid as Imperial Russia?
What I’m wondering about, however, is the genre confusion. I thought Digg was a thing where you see a story, and if you dig that story, you Digg it and it posts and more people read it or whatever.
I didn’t realize you could Digg like products on shopping sites. That changes it significantly.
So digging an object (does he mean site as in place?) seems like something that could rapidly bore the crap out of most people. ‘My cat” and “My sex chair” and “My boyfriend’s new car” etc.
Still, it’s fun and should be tried. What I’d rather have isn’t this thing hooked up to Digg, but hooked up to some other hive=mind site maybe that LL or some SL-related third-party makes, so it’s kind of like BlogHud, where you fly around and rate or comment on stuff and leave it’s trails, and then people could watch the trails form.
I’ll wait for the inevitable “thumbs up/thumbs down” mass coordinated alt army drama. It’s neg-rate bombing on people’s stuff instead of people!
Possibly from outside of SL while yet more constant scanners drag the region performance down :p