Comments on: Oi, clients. http://tentacolor.com/2006/11/21/oi-clients/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:14:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kieres http://tentacolor.com/2006/11/21/oi-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Kieres Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:13:00 +0000 http://tentacolor.com/?p=21#comment-20 In my first life, I help people put together contracts for construction projects and construction-related services (among other things). After reading about your experiences it sounds like there's a need for that sort of thing in SL. Maybe we can come up with something. <br /><br />One of the first issues that comes to mind is that SL contracts would probably be hard to enforce in-world. I don't see the Lindens rushing to put together a system to adjudicate residents' disputes (maybe while we're at it we need to come up with some kind of dispute resolution system). We could set a contract up to be enforced in the conventional RL ways, but I'm not sure that would make the contract realistically more enforceable for most people. But even if we don't have a way to enforce the contract in the same ways that we would in RL, there would at least still be a documented record of the agreement so that (if we wrote the contract well) a party with a complaint could at least feel justified in publically saying she or he was wronged. In my first life, I help people put together contracts for construction projects and construction-related services (among other things). After reading about your experiences it sounds like there’s a need for that sort of thing in SL. Maybe we can come up with something.

One of the first issues that comes to mind is that SL contracts would probably be hard to enforce in-world. I don’t see the Lindens rushing to put together a system to adjudicate residents’ disputes (maybe while we’re at it we need to come up with some kind of dispute resolution system). We could set a contract up to be enforced in the conventional RL ways, but I’m not sure that would make the contract realistically more enforceable for most people. But even if we don’t have a way to enforce the contract in the same ways that we would in RL, there would at least still be a documented record of the agreement so that (if we wrote the contract well) a party with a complaint could at least feel justified in publically saying she or he was wronged.

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