Event Posting Rules - What is OK to Post on the Calendar

You may currently post up to 5 events per day (including event edits). In addition, your friends will now be able to post events on a parcel that you own. However, you must set that parcel to show up in Find Places as a Meeting Place. If your parcel is not set up as a Meeting Place, the parcel will not be available to your friends, but will continue to be subject to other availability rules.

To further clarify, you may post an event on a parcel if:
- You personally own the parcel and it is at least 512 square meters in size.
- The parcel is owned by a group that you are a member of, and it is at least 512 square meters.
- The parcel is in a private island that you are on the access list of, and it is at least 512 square meters.
- The parcel belongs to Governor Linden and is set to show in Find Places as a Meeting Place.
- The parcel belongs to a friend, it is set to show in Find Places as a Meeting Place, and it is at least 512 square meters.

An event is defined as a special group activity that is led by a host on land owned either by the host or by a group the host belongs to. Examples include discussions, group meetings, hosted dances, classes, tours, and competitions.

An event is framed by a beginning and an end time. Thus '24hr Sales' and 'Non-Stop Casinos' are not events.

The 'Commercial' category was created for the purpose of grand openings, demonstrations, product launches etc. Each of these types of events should have a clear beginning and end time attached. Otherwise, they belong in the Second Life Classifieds, not the Events calendar. Posting events that are simply advertisements will not be acceptable.

The use of alts to post more than 5 events per day will not be permitted either.

The event descriptions need to conform to PG guidelines, consistent with the overall Second Life website policy - so no overt sex descriptions; sex for money, sex chat, simulated sex, strong violence, or anything else broadly offensive.

Mature events must be listed as Mature, and held in M-rated sims.

Respect the work of others -- respect copyrights and trademarks! Event hosts are responsible for making sure that all applicable rights and permissions are in order. See Digital Millennium Copyright Act for more information about Copyrights and Second Life.

These sound really good Jesse!! Thank you!

Two quick questions:

1. Any chance you will change the land size area for Private Islands soon? Mainly because on some islands, there is space that is dense and "owned" by several, but as "one owned piece of land" it may not equal 512. We've run into this in Neualtenburg, and we can't possibly be the only private sim that has had this issue.

2. As far as enforcing these rules. I assume you all are going to stay on top of it as much as you are able. Should we know of any special way to report abuse of the events calendar? On those occasions when you all are not able to catch them?

Thank you again! I think this is a great step for helping the events calendar be a useful tool!

Ok so if they go to edit land and the sim ower puts say my name on the Access list I can post events?

Question: It used to be that 512m2 plots COULD hold events? Is this no longer the case?

If they still can can you edit it to say something like..

* You personally own the parcel and it is 512 square meters in size or over.

?

Thanks

Yeah, it should be 512m or larger... or are you saying you don't want basic account holders holding events?

The difference between greater than and greater than or equal to is quite important in scripting.

It's important here too. Could we get a response from a Linden staffperson?

the rules should read:

To further clarify, you may post an event on a parcel if:
- You personally own the parcel and it is at least 512 square meters in size.
- The parcel is owned by a group that you are a member of, and it is at least 512 square meters.
- The parcel is in a private island that you are on the access list of, and it is at least 512 square meters.
- The parcel belongs to Governor Linden and is set to show in Find Places as a Meeting Place.
- The parcel belongs to a friend, it is set to show in Find Places as a Meeting Place, and it is at least 512 square meters.

apologies for the confusion here. I will change the text accordingly

Not to be the stick in the mud,

but will these rules actually be enforced?
Is event listings finally going to be policed?
Because, as far as I know, there have always been rules in place - the problem has been enforcement.

When humankind flung their ever questing minds to the far reaches of not only all logically possible universes but even those outside such quaint boundaries, they found a world where mere restatement of rules was the enforcement.

The highly reprobate people on that planet could usually be found inside a cluster of mawkish yet dutiful rule restaters.

yes, restating the rules helps a bit as well as adding clarity and leaving less gray area to exploit. Enforcement is difficult but for the time being I have people submitting listings that are the most blatant abuses of the calendar. I am deleting these listings (after making sure they are in fact clear violations of the rules)and sending an email to the posters reminding them of the rules.

In most cases, the people spamming the calendar are not bad or malicious, they are usually just oblivious or unaware they are doing anything wrong.

what's the difference between oblivious and unaware?

o·bliv·i·ous
adj.

1. Lacking all memory; forgetful.
2. Lacking conscious awareness; unmindful.

un·a·ware
adj.

Not aware or cognizant.

synonyms?
YOU MAKE THE CALL

Wow I need someone to teach me english can you help jesse

All joking aside as the say I understand you thoughts...........

An event is defined as a special group activity that is led by a host on land owned either by the host or by a group the host belongs to. Examples include discussions, group meetings, hosted dances, classes, tours, and competitions.


so everyone can see the rules allowing it

slingo is a group activity run on owned land, and is a competition. Since games (at least in Cycnia) do not run 24/7 then the Gaming Plaza's slingo is an event.

I have noticed that enforcement is minimal.
I see postings for yard sales all the time for the same places over and over. I also see *advertisements* for shops and malls renting vendor spaces that have nothing to do with the type of events as described by the Lindens. How can we expect fairness when people have found a way to circumvent the rules?

I'll soon be posting events for the first time for a subsection of the club I work for. The events will be adult in nature. I'm not entirely clear what is okay to post and what isn't.

Is it possible to get more detailed guidelines on what the limits are for event posting? I don't want to offend anyone or break the rules with my event posts, but would still like the content of the event to be clear from the description.

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Does anyone monitor the events - say if there is 500L each best in but the posting says 2000L? I see this alot - is this a scam? Or can you add up every cent you think you may be giving away that evening and make it look like more to lure people in? Has anyone else run into this?

Yes its to grab your attention. But i think they include the raffle going off. Which everyone shares in, so you are not walking out with the extra 1k. i know the only club that does this. The one where you dance in a mall. lol.

Why is there a thread consisting of event announcement after event announcement in this forum where event announcements are not supposed to be posted?

Because people can`t say they didnt see it........Thats just common sence

Are the Linden's looking into removeing the spam or Yard Sales from the event listings? Just the other day i was looking through events and the 1st 10 events was 1place doing an all day yard sale.
Please Help!!!

Would be a good idea. As far as I understand they are against the rules. But they still make the event listing unusable.

My suggestion: Either forbid yard sale listing totally or make an extra category for them and remove them from all other categories. Putting something about misuse into ToS would be nice, too.

Listing an event like the Avatar Chess game in Games/Contests is like writing it on the ground of the ocean - nobody will see it. This category is taken over totally by spammers.

This is especially very bad when people cannot find things they know part of the event name and search does not work correctly like now.

Lets see, I post a yard sale event as often as I can hmmm, why I wonder? I have a free public yard sale that offers 16 other people (320 prims) a way to start marketing their builds for free ( a very nice way to see if your workmanship has any quality, not to mention an intregal part of many peoples sl experience). Since we rotate and reset the public yard sale there are always new people setting up with new & different stuff. Is it a new event you bet it is, do we have and post start and end times , oh yeah, and are we present , come see us and say hi . Btw, lets kill all the slingo games that advertize as events, tringo games, games alltogether, oh yeah weddings too just because its someone new , who cares. ..hell lets just shut down everything "WE" don't like. yeah, yeah , dats da ticket (starting to feel a little upset with the color **insert color of choice**.

PS just saw multiple listings of the same classes better scratch those cause "we don't need no education, we don't need no thought control. Hey Teacher, leave them kids alone.... cause all we are is just.... well you know the rest

I understand the little blurb of text that you have to agree to to enter the event posting page.. But I was wondering if there was a resource of words that aren't allowed? I'm getting the yellow warning for my event descriptions.. and I can't figure out why...

AN EXAMPLE THAT GETS A YELLOW WARNING MESSAGE & WON'T BE POSTED:

Leather & Lace

NC-17 is hosting back-to-back events tonight, Feb. 15, from 3 to 9 PM SL time. We want you to come dressed in your finest to watch the finest. Erotic Dancers and Escorts perform on our stages. Whether you enjoy the tight comfort of a second leathery skin, the soft caress of delicate lace or merely enjoy a lovely feast for your senses… You’ll not want to miss out.

We’re handing out CASH prizes to the best dressed. Other, non-monetary, prizes will be awarded throughout the night as well; you’ll just have to come check us to see exactly what those prizes may be.

NC-17 is a little experiment attempting to combine the pleasures of the virtual flesh with the more titillating stimulation that comes from the tickling of the more intellectual organ. We're an odd combination of Club / Art Gallery / Brothel, attempting to create a one of a kind atmosphere in SL. One where people come for thought provoking conversation, eye candy of all sorts, and most importantly, a good time.


AN EXAMPLE THAT GETS THE OK AND IS ABLE TO BE POSTED:

Leather & Lace Event @ NC-17

Feb. 15th - 3-6 & 3-9 PM

Come dressed in your finest to watch the finest...

Adult Entertainment ( Dancers & Escorts)

NC-17 = Club / Art Gallery / Brothel

I do not know if this is the right place for a 'suggestion' if its not, feel free to delete my post

Under event listing, there is really no 'catagory' for TV / MOVIES and i think that would be cool....

For making events like, EAST COAST LOST WATCHERS so we can gather and talk about the show as we watch it on tv....

What catagory would you suggest for such a event?