1. Creating Volunteer Online Police in Virtual Worlds
“Because behind every Avatar there is a real person!”
Jaque Davison
Davison Associates
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2. Overview Guidelines – Terms of service Crimes and enforcement tools
Organization
Training academy
Implementation

3. Guidelines - Terms of Service
Set by the owner
Shrink-wrap principle
Failing got follow is grounds to deny service
Too many users for the owner
Community talent
Real crimes require real police

4. Crimes Flaming Land disputes Vandalism Stalking Content violation
Account theft
Password cracking
Social engineering
Credit card fraud *

5. Enforcement Tools Muting Suspension of rights Ejection Banning
Object deletion
Special Bots
Manifesting as an Avatar
Multiple location presence
Teleporting
Chat capability
Object copy and move functions
Chat and incident logging

6. Special Tools

7. Organization

8. Academy

9. Training Sites

10. Academy Tracking

11. Patrolling

12. Ejection Technique Change the subject Use humor Capture chat
The user name
The user's IP address
The date and the time
The world where the infraction occurred
A transcript of the offending text taken from a chat log
Change the subject
Use humor
Capture chat
Warn in whisper
Warn in bold
Eject
Report

13. Implementation Step 1 Policy and procedures Step 2 Initial operations
Involve the community
Recruit
Step 3 sustainment
Set up the academy
Record keeping
Special operations

14. A Sign on the Wall

15. AWSource

16. TRADOC World

17. UCanFnsh

18. The briefing is over… Thank you
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