[IxDA Discuss] Forced Registration and Dummy Information

[Trip O'Dell]

I can heartily second that. I was a producer at a children's gaming  
website, and the information we got from users usually pretty  
entertaining - This is particularly true for sites with loyalty  
points/virtual currency systems like Neopets where users will  
maintain several accounts as "banks" or for "goldfarming" - where  
they game the system to maximize the return for their "in-world"  
activities.  Multinational corporations and crime syndicates have  
nothing on children when it comes to creating shell companies and  
business fronts - at least in virtual worlds.

Trip


On May 4, 2007, at 10:26 AM, Michael Micheletti wrote:

> Children, on the other hand, when registering for sites like  
> Neopets that
> have age restrictions, lie like sailors. They're 87 years old, drive a
> Ferrari, live on an island in the Carribean, and make four million  
> dollars a
> year. The registration concludes and the site says "Welcome,  
> Vladimir!" and
> they all laugh. Creating bogus accounts is like a sport to them.  
> They're
> smart, they know the tricks, and they travel in packs. Or so it  
> seems at our
> house anyway.