What do you do when you come across restricted access?

I have to admitt, I release the camers contraints and zoom in and take a good look around. Just can't resist it - it brings out the "peeping Tom" in me!

A resident has just blocked off access to a parcel near my shop and also put up a barrier of giant prims, texture on outside, transparent on the inside, in an attempt to prevent seeing inside. I know as a shop owner, restricting access is anathema to me, but the irony is, that if she had not blocked off access and view, I would not have bothered looking!

Awwww don't tell us that and then don't tell us what is inside lol personally i don't bother looking as if they want me to see then they would let me, but thats just me and can understand the curiosity

Great walls with texture on the outside and transparent on the inside really scream "F*CK EVERYONE ELSE!!"


I think that the configuration should be ARable.

One could claim that the prims are a huge advertisement...

.. ..... advertising the fact that the owner is an asshole.



Someone who does not want to see 'ugly' on the outside is welcome to have the reverse, with transparent outsides.

You respect it and go away.

I lift a leg and pee on their barriers. Silly humans - they think I can't smell what's going on back there?

I don't bother looking into such parcels. I figure that, if they lack the aesthetics to understand the visual impact of their 'creation' on the community (or don't care how others might feel about this imposition), there isn't anything behind there I'd enjoy looking at. They probably think bling is attractive, too.

Seriously?

If I find it I simply reclaim the parcel, delete the restrictions and then set the parcel back 'for sale' to the resident for $L 0.

Plus leave a gentle note pointing them toward the covenant.

At least, that's what happens anywhere I frequent...

Of course... Considering where you frequent... XD

I, on the other hand, cam in to everything and anything. Banlines just make me even more tempted. =^-^=

Banlines used to drive me crazy when I was trying to hike across SL. Sometimes you get into cul-de-sacs that are impossible to go around. But I haven't done that in a long time.

These days I welcome ban lines as an advertisement to avoid that person as someone of a completely different species and mindset from me. (Puppet, I am just posing as a human temporarily to try to understand them better. So far it's not working.)

Linden trees were tailor made to cover neighboring ugly scenic panels and I have used them to good effect (I think) on my parcel.

Edit: Oh - and I have no desire to cam into the ban lines.

On one of my tiny mainland parcels (containing a TP pad and small park bench and the rest is grass, skybox cottage above) one boundary butts up against ban lines. At first I was a bit annoyed, but as I spend more time there I'm coming to feel that if they have a problem with me knowing them, I probably don't want to know them. Too bad, we both probably lose that way. Oh, well. OTOH, up near my skybox is an absolutely beautiful, large house. I've landed there and tried to find someone to talk with but it seems to be totally vacant. I'd like to compliment the owner in person (not just lob a faceless IM at them). He/she doesn't feel they need ban lines. Jackie.

Yes, humans are rather odd with their quirks - it's rather maddening that they get the opposable thumbs and canines don't! The world would certainly be very different if this was reversed.

What I find the most annoying about banlines is the people who use them on the ground to block access but they have nothing on the ground; everything's in a skybox where the banlines don't work anyway. I take this sort of the same way - the person is of a completely different mindset (an inferior one) and someone to be avoided. Excuses can be made for brand new folks, though.

I just make my markings and move on.

I used to have ban lines just cause - then i saw how annoying they were when I ran into them- so my home space has no ban lines any longer. It is however annoying when people walk into you home unannounced.

Im usually lagging due to my slow net and get caught up in them like a fly in a spiders web lol then get spammed with "get out,, get out" haha and I think to myself, I really wish I could and when is this goin to send me home so I can be unstuck ;p

Heh. I do the same thing (minus the lifted leg).

This.

I usually ignore the place because there are thousands of places that DO want you to visit and are designed to be way more interesting than the inside of someone's home. And besides... you seen one sex bed you seen em all.

I use troll posts on the forums in much the same way. I preemptively ban and mute.

yep, same here

I think SL brings out exaggerated territorial instincts in some people, possibly to compensate for a lack of private or personal space in RL. Also some people like to make a statement and if they can do it big, garish and full-bright, so much the better!

Other things that I don't understand - people who put ban lines on their land when their home is hundreds of metres up where the ban doesn't work. And people who have low-altititude sky builds - usually something like a freebie bungalow 30 metres up in the air. Pictorial megaprim screens are the worst, though.

Something I've seen too often to be accidental is big screen walls that are overlapping prims to give delibreately flashing textures.

it's the new found trick to advertising..
the Don't touch that button little boy trick..
I was wondering who would be the first to use it!

LOL - there was nothing worth seeing. I was very hopeful of finding something to laugh about - but no luck there.

I honestly couldn't give a monkies what the owner does there - it's the sight of all those giant prims that must bring out the "nosey parker" in me!

More often than not, I just turn away and go somewhere else. If there are too many barriers, I TP home and do something different, in a different sim.

Aww for a minute I thought you hadt God Mode on the mainland

Myself I usually just go around it, I pretty much seen enough to resist any "what's in there" intrigue nowdays, though you never have seen everything

I don't find any curiosity in me about what's inside banlines, but if someone put huge prims up to block the view from my side and allow the view from theirs, I'd immediately put huge prims up to block their view. And since the huge prims are there anyway, it would allow me to choose what I see on them and not be stuck with their choice. I'd probably leave their side of my prims as the default wood texture.

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