When did residents get permission to advertise on MOTD? continued

I just logged back in (7pm GMT) and the MOTD has changed to the 'Want to find cool places? Check out Showcase' one. Earlier, when I logged briefly at 5pm GMT, the one this thread is about was still up. Since it's now just after 11am PDT I would guess that's consistent with it being changed at 9am, presumably when Battery Street is waking up to coffee and doughnuts

The legal theory could be that the Overland Estate Agency were fraudulently induced to spend the 400k on their advertisement. It would fit if Linden Lab solicited the classified money without disclosing the giving of the MotD to a direct competitor, and Overland Estate Agency would not have bought the advertising at that price had they known about the competitor getting the free MotD. Were I in that position, that would be enough money at stake for me to demand a refund, and follow it up with legal action if ignored. I hope that those who Linden Lab screwed for big money all consult their lawyers.

I think LL would be better served to use the MOTD for important far reaching announcements or strictly SL or LL sponsored events....i mean cant we even have a notice on there about camping and bots before we get ads?? I suppose if these folks are paying out the wazooo for these ads then more power to them, but if they are getting them by virtue of owning a ton of land....hmmmm...just seems wrong to me.

Why would Linden Lab want to advertise a policy that it has no intention of enforcing?

Why was it locked?

okay, I see... personal insults and such. not that it was about how violated we feel..


Oh that just stinks you saw that naked guy at a "official" SL MOTD event.... gosh..

I never click those....

This forum is so outdated and broke

At least the post on xstreet still going and has 2 lindens responding in it

Did anyone catch the MOTD?

Visit the adult continent zindra or whatever they call it. I just think thats a hoot

I guess that goes to show that I mentally tune out the motd. It didn't occur to me that Linden Lab was advertising its own adult content in a place where it couldn't be filtered out.

Maybe its just for the new viewer, Im assuming since I just DL it...

Well, I just thought it was funny. ; ) Gotta Love LL yes?

If you really want this topic to get some attention, hold the discussion using Twitter, and put #iranelection in every tweet.





I can't get a bit of support for my idea of interspersing ad text with chat text on an alternating character basis. That way you'd HAVE to look at the ads.

Subliminal ads might be possible, (perhaps just shifting the color of pixels in the pattern of the sponsor's name by one bit) and of course there's product placement, like in the movies.

There's empty space in the empty sidebar area of this forum, and for that matter, a tiny advertisement gif file would fit quite nicely in between the Post Icons right below where I'm typing right now.

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I tried to go to Ursula sims and it says they aren't available.

Oh, sure...apparently the place was full of Lindens, and child avatars (that Marianne is very mature for her age. She takes things in stride that give some soi-disant "adults" nervous breakdowns).

What's REALLY a hoot is the motto they chose for the place: "Zindra: Green Living for The Future". Talk about your politically correct non sequitur bullshit. What, is the place going to be powered by testosterone or something?

I couldn't go...my sweeties and I were too busy creating Adult Content in our Private Residence. So there.

What amuses me is the area called Kama City. Close enough, eh?

That has to be the funniest thing I've seen in a while. Hilarious.

And the reasoning behind that would be....???

Never mind that..one spot is call Klancaster

ok we have eco friendly sims that really are about green living....so i guess ive missed how zindra is related to going green??? LOL

Someone earlier linked a JIRA issue proposing separating commercial MOTDs into a separate channel. That's not quite the answer I was looking for, so I've created an alternate proposal at http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-14438, to just stop using the MOTD for advertising.

The channels suggestion is a nice idea, but it still leaves people getting land ad spam by default, and (in my opinion) is not likely to be implemented given that it would require attention from already-overworked LL programmers.

The really big problem to me is the reduction in the signal to noise ratio in the MOTD. 3rd party viewers will add MOTD-disabling options if LL keeps sticking ads there, and LL will lose that channel of communication as a means of getting important information to those users.

The response from LL so far has indicated that the program is just in a trial stage and will be expanded if it's successful. Vote on the JIRA and let them know that it's not.

That's true and is what I think. However, nothing seems to work very well for important messages, so perhaps there should just be a blinking exclamation point onscreen (not just at login) when there's news, meaning "Check status" or something.