Linden Lab Official:Someone in Second Life is abusing me verbally through Voice.

Is someone harassing you through Voice in Second Life? Yelling inappropriate things or trying to interrupt you constantly or some other such nonsense? The great thing about Voice in Second Life is that you can do something you can't in your "first life": You can mute them.

There are two ways to mute Voice chat inworld:

Using the Active Speakers window

1. Click the button with the little white word balloons next to the Talk button at the bottom of the Second Life window. The Active Speakers window opens.
2. Select the name of the avatar you want to mute and click the Mute button.

Note: If you IM with; Pay L$ to; or Give inventory to someone you've muted, they'll be unmuted, and chat history will inform you what's happened.

Using the Communicate window

1. Click the Communicate button at the bottom of the Second Life window. The Communicate window opens.
2. Click the Near Me tab at the bottom of the Communicate window.
3. Click the << button to open the active speakers list.
4. Select the name of the avatar you want to mute and select the Mute: Voice checkbox at the bottom of the active speakers list.

What about Abuse Reports?

You can still file an Abuse Report on the Resident giving you problems, but it's harder to provide concrete evidence. There are no IM or chat transcripts you can provide if someone is yelling things at you over Voice. For common-sense reasons, we can't accept recordings of Voice chat made by other programs or by you holding a tape recorder up to your speakers. File an Abuse Report if you'd like, but if the Resident is being nasty over Voice, muting them is the quickest solution; there's no way for them to unmute themselves. If someone is being a jerk to you in other ways that you can document concretely, filing an Abuse Report is certainly the way to go.