Basic Questions and Answers for Volunteer Candidates
Revision as of 20:01, 28 February 2008 by Thaumata Strangelove (talk | contribs) (→Questions and Answers)
- This page will be a collaborative effort from Second Life Mentors to possibly help raise the bar on acceptance in the Second Life Volunteer Program. If enough input is gathered here this may become a good basic FAQ resource also.
Second Life Mentors: Please add basic questions and answers that you think a resident should already know, prior to acceptance into Second Life Volunteers.
Questions and Answers
- You are a member of a group. How do you leave that group?
- How do you use group chat?
- How do you edit your appearance? Also how can you completely change outfits at once?
- How do you find an Event in SL?
- How do you "rebake" or solve other "ruthing" or appearance problems?
- What is lag?
- Where can you set your "home" location in SL?
- When a "griefer" attacks, do you:
- (a) run screaming and yelling and shooting?
- (b) round up people and explain how to deal with it?
- (c) IM Torley Linden to see if he has a tutorial video on it?
- (d) what's a griefer?
- (e) calmly file an AR and get on with your day.
- Given the location name "SLVEC" alone, what tools might you use to find it?
- How do you search for the items you are wearing currently?
- What is a HUD?
- Where have you helped people before?
- What is the difference between a prim and an object?
- What SL or RL skills do you feel you can bring to the Mentor/Volunteer group?
- How do you disable particles?
- What is a Linden?
- What is "orbiting" and when is it OK to orbit people?
- How do you find help and answers in Second Life?
- WHY do you want to be a Mentor/Volunteer?
- What is a SLURL and how do you create one?
- Do you need to do anything if you see a child avatar on the grid?
- Do you know and understand the Big Six - Community Standards??
- Have you carefully read the TOS?
- Do you know the function and possibilities of F1?
- How can you fly higher than 250 metres?
- Clicking the danceball to stop dancing didn't work - how else can you stop any / all animations?
- How do you upgrade your account from basic to premium?
- What is the difference between No Copy and No Transfer on an item?
- Where can you do Orientation tutorials once you have left your first Orientation Island?
- If you have a basic account, can you own land? can you rent it?
- How do you clear your cache?
- What are Picks? How can you view another resident's picks and why would you want to?
- If you see something cool, how can you look to see who made it? Why would you want to?
- What is the Knowledge Base and where is it?
- What is the SL Wiki and where is it?
- What are the SL Forums and where are they?
- What are ten awesome things to do in SL that don't require money?
- What can a newbie do to educate themselves about cool places to see and reputable merchants to shop with? (ie, checking picks and searching for blogs)
- How can a newbie protect themselves from scams? (ie, don't say YES when an object asks for access to your lindens, beware of BIAB, etc.)
- Where can a resident go to take classes in SL, and how can they find them in events?
- What would you do if you felt another resident was harassing you?
- Do you know how to file an AR?
- What is JIRA?
- What is the difference between Mainland and Private Islands?
- Where do you go to get up to the minute information about grid outages, current known issues and other important things? (blog)