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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