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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Linden Labs today announced they are creating a Department of Public Works, the LDPW, to create and fix content on Linden Land to improve the experience of all residents who live or visit the mainland. They are going to staff it with 10 builders, scripters and artists who have been referred to them and have time to actually do the work. They did not mention who or how they were referred to start with, but did say that they will look into how they could invite others to apply. They also did not mention if the workers were going to get reimbursed for their work or not.

What will we work on? Good question; basically, we will consider anything and everything that we feel will make the mainland more attractive, fun, engaging and interesting for new or existing residents. Initially, we’re looking at extending the city area which is very popular, so that will involve some new built up areas to the west of Barcola (joined via bridges to preserve existing water views). We’ll also be looking at new park areas, Linden folly builds, beautifying existing Linden land, better gathering places and seeding new mainland with themed builds. Some of the content may find its way into the Library in your inventories.

In addition, there will be other work ongoing as part of this program that will include repairing terrain, and yes - finally completing the missing coastline on the southern continent. Source: The Linden Department of Public Works

I went and visited Barcola for the first time, I’ll admit, I don’t think I’ve been on the mainland to often, at least I haven’t been seeking it out, other than looking at the roads on the map, and whatever sims I’ve visited that are on the mainland. Jack Linden answered some comments in this comment on the blog post and said that they were looking into doing something about the ad farms and they probably won’t be working on the roads yet, as they would prefer to use some form of none prim road and not impose of those residents already living there if they didn’t have to.

This is the area they will start building onto.

Barcola already has a little city park.
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