Adult content officially banned from Mature and PG land from 15th September

That was my understanding too. Until I got a request from another Linden to remove all commercial adult content from mature land. So now I really don't know.

I am just numb now, and pretty much have given up all attempts to understand, interpret or predict. I'll sit tight, and try to ride out the storm.

Blimey. I would take that up with Blondin at his office hours. Certainly, not all the Lindens seem to be singing from the same hymn-sheet over this, and I know Blondin has intervened -- apparently with some success -- when his over-enthusiastic colleagues have got the wrong end of the stick.

Well again the whole party question is another example of the OP stretching the truth. A party isn't intrinsically an advertised event.

been there. done that. but thanks

When have the Lindens ever sung from the same sheet on ANY issue?

If I were awaiting my sim owner to reappear online to change the setting of the sim/estate to adult... how long do I have before several thousand items suddenly show up in my lost and found folder?

I can't offhand recall where I saw it, though I think it was somewhere reasonably official like a blog article or the Knowledge Base, but I'm pretty sure I read something to the effect they'd reflag the sim as Adult anyway in the case of a non-compliant landowner. So assuming the tier continued to be paid on time by your absentee landlord, that shouldn't be an issue.

Well, a party's intrinsically advertised to the guests by way of invitation, of course, and that's where it starts to get difficult.

Someone throws a party, be it to celebrate a birthday or because he or she just feels like throwing one, at a private residence on Mature land. IMs go out, or notecards, to people on the party-giver's Friends' List. In the event, the party turns into an orgy. If no one ARs anything, then obviously there's going to be no problem.

A club-owner regularly closes his or her premises every Saturday night (business has dropped off considerably since the club can no longer advertise or operate as a sex club, being on mature land, so it's no hardship to close once a week), re-rezzes the collection of sex furniture from the club's previous incarnation and throws a private orgy there for his or her friends; the host regards as friends all the members of the club's VIP group, all members of BDSM Collar Me, BDSM Events and the members of every other group from which the club-owner hasn't yet been thown out for spaming. Everyone's encouraged to spread the word, as are all the club employees; the more the merrier. And, since our club-owner, as befits one of that profession, is a sociable character who believes strangers are no more than friends you've not yet got to know, anyone who happens to show up at the event -- perhaps attracted by all the green dots on the map -- they're more than welcome to stay if they join the VIP group for the duration.

The club owner might well have more difficulty persuading the Resi Team that this is, in fact, a bona fide party, in the normal English meaning of the word, than would the person throwing the birthday party in the first example, should some chance stranger happen upon either of these events, take exception to what's going on, and AR it.

The point is that, at both ends of the continuum and at all points between, the party-giver can rely, in the event of an AR, on nothing more than the common sense and good judgment of whatever Linden handles the matter. "It's a party" is not an absolute defense.

The only way not to have to rely on what an unknown third party may or may not make of the event is to hold it on Adult land, which is one of the reasons I flagged most of my residential sims as Adult -- not because the tenants or I are in the habit of throwing open-house orgies there, or have any plans so to do, but because neither I nor they wanted to worry about what might happen if a party turned out more lively than anticipated.

Actually, it is legal here in the District of Columbia too. It is rather unknown and few people take advantage of it, but pasties are more a social convention here than strictly required.

Use emerald. It will let you search for an object by name, description, owner, or group.