How will the search filtering affect classified ads?
(Ken): The search filtering is in concept similar to any other search filtering that you might see out there, with the caveat that we are trying to be very careful as to which words we put on the list. In formulating it, we’ve spent many hours in the search tool, trying to determine how words are used in Second Life as search tags, by merchants and landowners. So, although search filtering is never 100% clean and efficient, we’ve tried very hard to make sure that words that have common dual meanings are not going to get caught up in these filters. Q: I’d like to know if skins will be considered as adult content and will the Teen grid rules have to be applied? A: (Ken): So, what do we mean when we say ‘photorealistic’ nudity will probably be adult? By photorealistic, we mean that to your average, reasonable person, it looks real, like a photograph. In other words, it’s probably a photograph. We’re not talking about avatars, we’re not talking about skins. That said, if you’re selling ski
