Players who act up in the online game Second Life are banished to a place called The Cornfield. There is nothing in The Cornfield except for a tractor and a TV. I have no idea how long they are banished there, but I found it a hilarious solution to a problem of disrupting other player's games.

Clickable Culture

After breaking Second Life's rules, Yaffle was informed via email by Linden Lab that he was being sent to The Corn Field. "I thought it was a joke," Yaffle told me in-world. "I never even knew it existed before I went there, and by the looks of it, a lot of other people didn't either." Rumour and speculation about the prison has been running amok in the Second Life community since word of The Corn Field spread, but until recently the prison simulator hadn't been officially confirmed.

"Sometimes when someone is suspended for a short time they are sent to the cornfield," Linden Lab's Senior VP of Community and Support wrote on the official Second Life discussion forums yesterday, adding that building the cornfield didn't require any significant development work and reassuring the community that "Once someone is permanently banned they are no longer welcome in Second Life, anywhere, including the cornfield."

There are more pictures and descriptions of The Cornfield at Clickable Culture, including a description of what shows on the tv and how fast the tractor goes.

Tipped by: Boing Boing