Janine "Iris Ophelia" Hawkins' ongoing review of gaming and virtual world style
Inventory loss has been the bane of avid Second Life users for years now. Although there have been periods where it was more or a problem than usual, it's never not been there, lurking in the backs of our virtual closets and waiting to devour one, just one shoe from our favorite pair. It's not a simple issue, either. There are a multitude of ways it can happen, and addressing every one of them is something that Linden Lab has undoubtedly been struggling with for as long as Second Life's existed.
If you've lost an item out of your inventory in the past year there's not much you can do to retrieve it at this point, but you can still help LL by providing a little information about that loss. They've recently put a call out for victims of inventory loss to fill in a simple survey. Expect to answer questions about how many items you've lost in the last 12 months, when the majority of those losses occurred, what viewer you use most and, of course, what happened immediately before the loss -- trying to rez something on a no-rez parcel, for example, is a pretty common way to lose an item.
You can fill in the survey for yourself here, and with any luck the information gleaned will help limit future losses.
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