Why We Hate Adfarms--A Gallery

thanks robot ...


edit .. i guess that didn't work either ... *sigh*
edit2 ... got it .. thanks. now let me try the "tinypic" way ...

Try putting the http:// bit in at the front:

i've been following this post for a while and really haven't posted anything cause i really didn't think I had anything to contribute...watching it progress I've been struck with the idea that ya know..in a virtual world we are being faced with same social obstacles/oppurtunities as in RL.

Everyones right to have a gun..imposing a 7 day background check for a weapon..enforcing it.loops holes in that law for gun shows..noise pollution..zoning to tame that.. Smoking in public areas becoming less and less acceptable and now smoking in private residential areas being halted as well. (of course some of these things we don't see in SL and they don't apply but.. the basic issue of freedom and liberty applies)

Reading the above post about human interaction and all made me sortve see this in that light. Ive always believed i had every right to my liberty...as long as that exsertion of liberty did not impose or hinder someone elses liberty and freedom. We have freedom of speech but can't walk into a theatre and scream "fire" (if theres not in fact a fire).

Maybe SL needs a constitution. I mean every resident who pays for land and that :"dream" of owning their own personal piece of virtual land should have the inalieable right to not have to be surrounded by blinking porno signs..or any sign for that matter. Right? I don't understand why LL doesnt zone for this type of thing.

It used to be that a human being could rely ( not totally) on mutual respect and etiquette but that all seems to be thrown out the window.Now the law of the land seems to be "Well if I can..then I will" I think leaving it in the hands of the residents has proven not to work.

~Lana Tomba

Great point.

In SL it seems almost that

"If they can" not only they will, but they will tell you they are justified unless the activity gets banned.

Like somehow only LL's enforced rules are the ethical compass of virtual society.

These threads are getting a little out of control in length and breadth, so I tried to split off one of the sub-topics here and put it in a new thread in Feature Suggestions, at /13/71/240418/1.html, with the title "Revise ownership provisions for 16sq.m. parcels." The first post tries to list the non-adfarm uses of 16sq.m. parcels. In case it's of any use or interest.

There are many online worlds were people don't need to be managed by a central authority. There are worlds that contain some of the most annoying teenagers on the planet and yet they don't need a babysitter to watch over them.

Tell me what they are, 2k?

coco

Unreal Tournament
Battlefield 2
Checkers Online (Don't laugh!)


I could go on...

The problem is that the link you are providing does not end in JPEG, JPG, BMP, GIF etc. If you go to the link you are posting www.flickr.com/photos/42166057@N00/2215536216 the page has both text AND and image on it. Right click on the image on this page and select View Image. This will take you to this link http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2093/2215536216_7f115d24d2.jpg?v=0 which I had to chop the ?v=0 off of and wrap in [IMG ][/IMG ]'s to make it appear...



P.S. To use pics from your PC, first upload them at http://www.tinypic.com and paste the URL here with the code.

ROFL

Egon,

I was having the exact same problem you are having and was frustrated about it. Someone finally had to give me step by step instructions. May not be the easiest or only way, but it works for me, and since you use flickr, here it goes:

1. After you post your picture in Flickr, click on that picture.

2. On the right hand side under "Additional Information" you'll see a link for "different sizes". Click that.

3. Move down where it says to grab the photos URL and copy the URL from the box.

4. In your post here click on the box that looks like the moon and the mountains, it will give you this: [img]5. Paste the URL you grabbed from Flickr

6. Click the mountain/moon image and you should be good to go.

I would think you could grab the URL from the address bar but that never seems to work for me, that's why I always go through steps 1 - 3.

Hope that helps.

Rubbish in the air mainly blotted out now. Cost in prims (without cheating or using things which blocked a natural sky completely = 823. 823 prims of trees and a couple of Inkwelle screens. 823!!!!!

My neighbours, as you can imagine, on this spot are absolutely delighted. Instead of a vista of horror on all sides they now have at least partially a lush and verdant view.

823! And the worst of it is, the guy I bought this land from needed to tier down fast. Why was his tier high? Cos he bought up all the bits of land to clear that sim of adcutters only to have other people sell it on. Yes I could have told him that - in fact I did - but in his shiny-bright newness he simply didn't believe that people were so uncaring of others.

You should see the amount of adverts going up since I bought that land though. I think they think I'll be prim hungry soon. Not so, suckers! I still have 1200 left and mainly the decor etc will be the trees anyway so stick that in your pipe and smoke it!!!!!

Grrrr. Should be against the ToS.

thanks robot. i got it to work both ways. tho the "tinypic" turned out to be not-so-tiny. hehe.

i always wondered how ppl uploaded pictures here.

For me it's not about ugly. There's plenty of fugly around.

It's about the plot being for sale, at prices which should attract RICO attention (yes, hyperbole was intended, with irony).

A lot of "fugly" disappears with a short draw rate but visual mute would do the trick completely AND probably kill off adfarmers in a trice.

Empower us!

This can be solved with my suggestion way way back (and I have commented on a Jira as such) to tie object muting to identity verification - and allow us to mute an object individually rather than an entire parcel.

Not just by you the nonowner... but also by the person who owns the object itself (and it should transcend if its no mod or not). What I suggest is to allow for an "adult tag" for objects, rather than whole parcels (and their ugly ban lines). This would allow for continuity, and more granular filtering of adult content. Something I have now thought of due to your comment, would be if someone gets on the object that is set invisible, it will also cause the avatars sitting on it to be invisible (as they are now part of the invisible object)

Therefore, you can see their build, but not the people having a good time inside No matter what you do with the cam.

I took some pics of ad farm nearby, but it's all more of the same.
One thing, neighbor put up mega prim covering part of ad farm, problem is,
it's now encroaching tilted in over my back lot, like massively.
The ad farm alley is along their border, they don't have the advantage to hide ad farm from w/i. But this is just going to drive the ad farms higher up! in this case, deff into a lot more ppls views *ahem* like! me!
Ida see ad farms as much as they do from my point of views and sure I hate them,
don't see the point of ad farm alleys and have felt compelled to such tactics,
but hey ppls, let's be careful out there! and not add to the crapola!

Anything encroaching on your land is reportable. I'd drop them a message and alert them to the fact they're infringing on your land ... and hopefully they'll be good neighbours and do the right thing. Chances are they didn't even know they were over your border (often people don't even CTRL SHIFT ALT P to look at borders).

LOL GIVE IT UP GUYS

ads are here to stay. so change the record lol

Hey everyone - I've removed some of the non-PG images posted to this thread. As a reminder, per our Community Standards (http://secondlife.com/corporate/cs.php)


If you find something inworld that you believe violates the local standards of the region, you should use the Abuse Reporting tool to report it. Instructions on how to do so are available in the Knowledge Base:
https://support.secondlife.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=3989

/me raises eyebrow

If these images--images that are displayed hundreds and hundreds of time throughout the Second Life mainland and visible in all sorts of regions--must be removed from the forums, can we take it that Linden Lab will be removing them from the world as well?

Sure. If they're in a PG area and people report them. Hasn't this always been the case?

Actually, I thought that anything "publicly visible" - even in M rated areas - should be "PG" in nature.

So *any* sex-related advertisments should be reported as in violation of the CS, regardless of their location?

Perhaps, as porn/escorts/sex is one of the most advertised items in-world, this is a way to make inroads into getting ad farms removed?

Yes, I'll have to double check, but I'm almost certain that I've read that it should not even be visible from a PG sim, meaning displayed publicly. If that's the case then I say we should all begin AR'ing like crazy. I'm game.

Not precisely, 2k.

You can get vulgar and explicit images removed from inside SL even if they are on a mature sim.

Mature sim doesn't mean it's okay to post explicit images where anyone can see them, much less on billboards or rotating 10x10 cubes.

So AR the heck out of these things when you find them, even if they are on mature land.

coco