As I sit here eating my Scooby Doo mini Vanilla Wafers it occurs to me that the big rooms full of avatars are not the only indicators that bots are being used to bump up traffic, as we covered here, I see many of the popular places sims with single avatars under water, some are under the land, obviously hiding, while others could just be under water, editing their avatars, changing clothes, etc, but some are always there, here, spread all over. Look around the next time you are at some of the popular places, if you use your camera, you can usually spot them even far away as they will flash like a little star occasionally. While this isn’t as big of a deal as a whole room full of bots, it’s still in the same vein and is PROBABLY to boost traffic numbers. (I posted a few pics below.)

I just came across this blog post by Timeless Prototype that discussed a friend of his getting 100 avatars in a simulator using sl polymorphism proxy, could this be the way places like B&B Skins are able to fill up a room with bots? Or, I should say, as she mentioned in this post at New World Notes, someone filling up a room for her? I’m not 100% sure, as this says imaginary friends and that Imaginary Friends are fake avatarpackets created by the proxy between the connection to Secondlife. I will ask Timeless when I run into him again and see if he thinks this could be used for that.

Here are some examples I am talking about above, single avatars here and there under water, even found a couple and a group on one visit. It is possible that these were just editing their appearance or something, but, being a skeptical person, I doubt it.

I found this little group under water on Money Island.

Popularity: 5%