Feb 14

Linden Labs Tackles Ad Farm Problem

Category: Ad Farms, Land Issues, Linden Land by Stone Culdesac

In a post on the Second Life Blog by Jack Linden, Linden Labs has said using content, particularly advertising, to deliberately and negatively affect another resident’s view on the mainland to sell a parcel for an unreasonable price, will be deemed unacceptable and dealt with as a violation of our community standards. They said to report it as you would any other Terms of Service or Community Standards violations, so that the governance team can take the appropriate action.

It will obviously be difficult for us to define exactly where example A is an abuse issue as compared to example B where it is not - but the intention is to be as consistent as we possibly can and to remove the content as it is reported to us. Also, please keep in mind that this post only applies to Mainland; it does not impact private estates or islands where the owner is able to manage their land themselves.

So to recap:

Advertising on small parcels is fine, we are not outlawing the use of small parcels for this purpose.

However..

Using content, particularly advertising, to deliberately and negatively affect another resident’s view so as to sell a parcel for an unreasonable price, will be deemed unacceptable and dealt with as a violation of our community standards. Source: Mainland and the Ad Farm Problem

So go get started!

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1 Comment so far

  1. Blogland Oh February 14th, 2008 8:06 am

    I apologise if this sounds pesimistic. However, how will we know this isn’t another load of BS you feed just to boost morale.

    It would be nice if you had an evidence book, I once had land on mainland. I had to give it up. Once my neighbours, and MHA blocked me in, I even complained to the lindens I asked a linden why nothing was being done. He said file the report again.

    How will you ensure this will not happen again only with others?

    In all honesty, I’m beginning to lose hope in Linden Labs, I aspire to teaching and learning in tech environments with the usage of 3d objects.

    However it’s now 2008 and you only just have embraced a problem people have been protesting about for years.

    ’so as to sell a parcel for an unreasonable price, will be deemed unacceptable and dealt with as a violation of our community standard’ - You’re feeling the monopoly crunch now? Let’s face it that’s the real reason for the post.

    Make Torley Linden King!

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