Event Rules Enforcement A Joke

While the Lindens touted that they would enforce the new event posting rules wihtout grey areas, I have found numerous examples of events being allowed to be listed and to stay listed without being cancelled.

If the rules are not going to be enforced, why impose them in the first place?

Below are events from 08-05-04 that have "passed" muster:

Description: An all day event!

Prices Lowered!

The D.M. Kuula Mall Is reopening after a breif period of remodeling. It is now an expansive walk-in mall, with much larger shops than before.



For right now, we are only opening the first two floors to businesses, customers, vendors, and advertisers.



Rates for vendors are L$15 a week per 2 meters of space along the wall.



Rates for ads are L$5 a week per 1 square meter of wall space.



Rates for businesses are:

L$75 a week for 100 square meter shop.

L$150 a week for 200 square meter shop.

L$250 a week for a two-story 300 square meter shop.



Prim fees apply only to businesses and are:

L$2.5 inside a 100 square meter shop.

L$2 inside a 200 square meter shop.

L$1.5 inside a 300 square meter shop.

(There is a minimum of ten prims.)



If you want to soon be part of one of the largest malls in SL, just I.M. Doug Mifflin or email at [email]dougdrums@operamail.com[/email]



Thanks!
Hosted By: Doug Mifflin
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2004 12:00AM
Time: 12:00AM - 3:00AM (180 minutes)
Category: Discussion
Cover Charge? No
Location: Kuula (139, 255)


Description: Competition
Hosted By: Jacob Callahan
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2004 12:00AM
Time: 12:00AM - 12:10AM (10 minutes)
Category: Contest
Cover Charge? Yes (L$ 5)
Location: Federal (169, 11

Linden Support Requested: Yes

Description: Koffee, chat or dance to Big Band music to get the sleep out of your eyes.
Hosted By: Eos Zander
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2004 4:00AM
Time: 4:00AM - 5:00AM (60 minutes)
Category: General Fun
Cover Charge? No
Location: Butsu (142, 91)

Linden Support Requested: Yes

Description: COME SKYDIVING AT THE KITZ MALL!
Hosted By: Frank Olsen
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2004 1:00PM
Time: 1:00PM - 4:00PM (180 minutes)
Category: General Fun
Cover Charge? No
Location: Kitzbuhel (112, 159)


Description: Come on down to Sin City Casino @Raiden(236,236) and help me celebrate my RL Birthday in SL style. Random Free Money give aways to gamblers up to $500 every few minutes. Random free dollars just for showing up.
Hosted By: Grimpmaster Baggio
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2004 2:00PM
Time: 2:00PM - 2:45PM (45 minutes)
Category: General Fun
Cover Charge? No
Location: Raiden (236, 236)


Description: Due to a technical hitch earlier, many of you couldn't purchase goods from the vendors, alls ok and you're welcome to come back and visit ANY TIME you're free. Sorry folks
There are still two stalls left with a 30 prim allowance and 100sqm, No Free to copy items please, must be your own creations.... Free for this week only and then thereafter will be a wkly charge of L$!00 or L$300 per mth...so come and snap them up quick!

Happy shopping
Hosted By: tyana Chung
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2004 3:00PM
Time: 3:00PM - 3:10PM (10 minutes)
Category: General Fun
Cover Charge? No
Location: Pomponio (108, 14


Description: come to the elite and party dance have a good time. 2k raffel
Hosted By: midnight Fredericks
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2004 9:00PM
Time: 9:00PM - 11:00PM (120 minutes)
Category: General Fun
Cover Charge? No
Location: Federal (171, 116)

yes, i agree... if they r going to impose these new rules for events... stik to them!

however... i do not agree with the new rules... how is a newly opened shop/club or whatever meant to get known? i think the event tab is being shaped to what LL want it to be... not what the community needs/wants.

it is unfair that these ppl who break the current rules r getting away with it when the others who abide by the rules and do not post, well we basicly sit in the corner and twiddle our thumbs watching the little green dots float past our lot to the land hogging monstrosity thrown together behind us.

Lindens should do a robin hood stunt... reduce the amount of land allowed to the land hoggers from the rich and give to the poor.
we r poor because we do not have the chance to get ourselves known... new players will tire of the game due to this. we cannot get known because older members who were allowed to do whatever the hell they wanted back in previouse version of SL have done it and do not need to get new people to know about their plot because it has enough popularity to be spread by a large audience via word of mouth

*btw im not taking a phsyco or anything... just trying to say what i mean lol*

It hurt my eyes to get through all that. I can't even respond.

I agree...i knew that the new event rules sounded good, but that there would always be loopholes targeted by those who have abused the event system for months since i joined. LL is not enforcing this at all in any consistant manner.

Take today for example. There are two events posted within 12 hours for the same Club by the same person. I specifically recall this as being against the new rules.

The one thing that has been a rule since i joined, that seems to always slip by, is the (M)Mature events being on the public board and requesting Linden support. No not the events in Mature sims, but actual mature events like come watch our sexy strippers/rent escorts/XXX sex party etc, all being on the public board, something that was not to be seen unless using "Find" in events and checking mature events to display these.

Here's some of today's lovely events that are direct violations, and it's no wonder i have stopped posting events personally for my club all together:

Bored? Me too.. come dance

Description: Everyone is asleep but you and I arent so lets see if we can get some people together for a dance

Come to the second floor
Hosted By: Psyke Phaeton
Date: Friday, August 6, 2004 1:30AM
Time: 1:30AM - 4:30AM (180 minutes)
Category: General Fun
Cover Charge? No
Location: Shipley (40, 230)

(no offense psy, jsut pointing out the lack of enforcement consistency)

and then directly breaking the rules with 2 posts by the same event coordinator, same location, in one day with two non qualifying events which neither meet the guidlines:

HEAD BANGERS DANCE @ CLUB VOODOO

Description: WAKE UP AND COME BANG UR HEADS AT CLUB VOODOO. COME SHOW OFF UR NEW DANCE ANIMATIONS. IF U DONT HAVE THEM DONT WORRY WE DO.... SO COME ON DOWN TO THE HOTTEST NEW DANCE CLUB AROUND CLUB VOODOO. IN A LIL MOOD TO WATCH GIRLS SHAKE THEIR STUFF? DONT WORRY ON SECOND FLOOR IS MADE JUST FOR OUR SEXY DANCERS.......
Hosted By: malyssa Zander
Date: Friday, August 6, 2004 9:30AM
Time: 9:30AM - 10:30AM (60 minutes)
Category: General Fun
Cover Charge? No
Location: Koleamoku (89, 93)

MORNING DANCE @ CLUB VOODOO

Description: JUST WAKING UP CANT FIND ANYTHING TO DO WELL COME ON IN TO CLUB VOODOO. WE HAVE THE NEWEST DANCE ANIMATIONS. COME ON IN.
Hosted By: malyssa Zander
Date: Friday, August 6, 2004 9:30PM
Time: 9:30PM - 10:30PM (60 minutes)
Category: General Fun
Cover Charge? No
Location: Koleamoku (89, 93)

I run a club too, and i know that a few times early on i did post multi events in a day, but that was before the rules were implemented. Not trying to be a hypocrite but I think that if there are rules, they should be enforced consistantly, otherwise it appears to be favoritism. I ahve hopefully appeased my neighbors by not doing daily events, and quite frankly it's nice to be out of hte spotlight...

I will not be posting any events for .:The LeveL:. I do have a couple coordinators who do new events each week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, but they are always original, concepts for events and adhere strictly to the current event rules. Other then that I am going to put up ads within classified's and use my group to announce infrequent parties since everyone seems to be in the club business since 1.4. More power to them! .:The LeveL:. will not be going away, we are just trying to be neighborly and throw the occasional party for our supporters who enjoy it. I have found balance for my SL and for my neighbors who want to enjoy their sim too, and

To all of those who said i was in this for fame, money etc....i hope you see now i was honest in saying that wasn't my goal. Not giving up, just being fair to all who desire to experience the city. best of luck to everyone who has taken on the endevour of club ownership...hope you all succeed

/rant off

Thanks,
Jay Knox
Founder Knox Enterprises

y'all have to understand that the event calendar is useless and will forever be. announcements are worthless as well. do like the rest of us and never post to, or look at, the event list. it only takes a few days to develop the habit of autoclosing the blue boxes without seeing a jot of content. you won't even realize you're doing it.

you'll be so happy then. i promise.

Agreed. I don't even realize I am closing the blue box anymore its just an automatic refex action.

me too, i just close it too. events are becoming pointless... today i looked and there are so few going on (there might be more now, but when i did look its was quite empty)

i have posted events about twice... once i just stood there to see who would come... but absolutly nothing... the last time i told friends etc, and i got a larger audience... perhaps LL can remove the events tabe and give us somthing useful? lol