Talk:Describe Chatter

Profile > 2nd Life Precedent

Ah. News to newbie me. The LL client already has established precedent here. LL has already provided a poor translation into English at Profile > 2nd Life as a precedent defining what conventional is here. I think we could/ should tweak the script to match that precedent. I'll try that next. -- Ppaatt Lynagh 08:31, 3 November 2007 (PDT)

Date Of Birth

DATA_BORN is the Second Life identifier for this.

I think our old phrase "date-of-birth" is the correct English to represent that source code, not our new coinage "date-of-creation". It is the second birth that we are discussing, I think. -- Ppaatt Lynagh 29 October 2007

I notice alongside the drearily conventional phrase "date-of-birth" we also had the drearily conventional phrase "legal name" representing DATA_NAME, together with "online" and "not online" representing DATA_ONLINE. The history of English phrases we use to represent DATA_PAYINFO I do not yet understand. -- Ppaatt Lynagh 06:09, 2 November 2007 (PDT)

By the discussion above, I have now rolled the article back to the drearily conventional phrase "date-of-birth", as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOB, away from the new coinage "date-of-creation". Maybe DOB is by now our consensus least-awful design choice here. -- Ppaatt Lynagh 06:09, 2 November 2007 (PDT)

Has No Money

Sounds like we're confused over whether we talk of second money denoted in L$, which any avatar may have, and the real money that comes from a registered credit card, denoted in Euros or US$ or whatever.

I see the history says:

Your account can be credited money without having payment info; payment info can be removed from the account after using it.

This comment explains the new code vs. the old code that was:

// Convert to string from PAYMENT_INFO

string toPayInfoEcho(string data)
{
    integer payInfo = (integer) data;
    if (payInfo == 0)
    {
        return "Has no money";
    }
    else if (payInfo & PAYMENT_INFO_USED)
    {
        return "Has spent money";
    }
    else if (payInfo & PAYMENT_INFO_ON_FILE)
    {
        return "Has money";
    }
    else
    {
        return data;
    }

I don't yet understand this change.

For me, the new code isn't as easy to read at a glance as the old code. I see the sample results have not changed. I suspect that me rerunning the code might produce different sample results. --Ppaatt Lynagh

Payment info indicates the status of your account with regards to you being able to pay tier or buy $Lindens. If you have payment info on file then they have a CC number or Paypal. If they have made a charge to it then they also set the USED flag. Your account can have a positive US$ balance without having payment info on file or used, so saying "Has (no) money" is not a fact, the person may also be broke in real life but have payment info on file. -- Strife Onizuka 13:11, 3 November 2007 (PDT)