Good Grief

When I used them long ago I had a reason. Being able to see them would not have bothered me in the slightest and back then they were even more ugly than they are now.

Some might come down but I doubt more than half would. Some folks have a reason like I did. Some folks have stopped logging in and have no clue they are still up. and Some folks just want to annoy neighbors.

Well, you're right, some people do put them up deliberately. And some sort of barrier (illusory as it may be, what with camming possibilities) is a good feature for SL to offer, since a number of people do want to be able to restrict access.

The concern is more about the probably-large numbers of people who don't ever realize they've put up ban lines.

If enough people are like you and don't mind seeing their own ban lines, that could be a good fix to make (having the lines be visible to all). Until Kidd Krasner's exploding bubbles come on the market, anyway. ^_~




[[[[The lines used to be UGLIER?!!?? Talk about 'good grief'!!!]]]]

Good Grief! Why do noobs post questions on the forum, then ask for their answers to be sent to them on a postcard?

Lol there's a mall owner in Andraca who has a 4096 and other smaller plots around the sim all empty, just used for prims for the mall, and he's had banlines up on them for nearly 2 years I know of.

Damn these noobs, damn them all to hell, and their plywood builds along with their 300 metre ban lines..300 metre ban lines ...since when did ban lines stop at 300 metres. Why wasn't I told about this!!

I do love a good rant don't you..

Astrid...

1) They restrict access to their land, not realising that it creates visible banlines to everyone else.

2) They don't realise banlines only go so high. They can't see them, after all.

3) They're new, so their builds spend a long time at the plywood stage. Given some of the amateurish attempts at texturing by apparently experienced builders, plywood isn't always a bad thing.

One resident bought land next to mine, put a stone bungalow on it plus green pay-access lines at L$1 per hour, and never returned. I never paid L$1 to go on his land, it was left disused for a year, then reverted to the Guv'nor for auction. I was sold to another resident who put a thing like a bus shelter on it and has never been seen since!

Maybe they had reached the limits of "[Their] Imagination".

Lipstick on a pig.

A couple of months old and it already is the most over used phrase of the year.

"my friends" is particularly grating too.

Hehe.

I was hoping for some vitriol but everyone's being so damned diplomatic!

The earliest use of that phrase I could find via Google was by John Higdon in the TELECOM-DIGEST mailing list on January 19, 1990:

That makes it over 230 months old, which is an awfully big "couple".

Later in 1990 it was used by Russ Cage, quoting an unnamed Ford engineer:
So that's the first second-degree reference. Later references seem to attribute it to Governor Anne Richards of Texas.

Seems like it would be simple for LL to modify the viewer so that we could optionally turn off rendering of ban lines. Then I wouldn't have to look at my neighbor's ugly ban lines, and they would still have their "privacy". With all the complaints about ban lines, I'm really surprised LL hasn't done something like this.

I know that my neighbors don't want others on their land, and I know where the boundaries are, so I really don't need to be able to see the ban lines when I am at home. I would turn ban line rendering on again when flying through unfamiliar territory, to avoid running into them. Why not give us the choice?

BTW, when I see an interesting build surrounded by ban lines, I often stop and use the camera controls to thoroughly explore what's behind the lines. If there were no ban lines, I wouldn't bother.

I blame California. (^_^)

I was referring to it's recent usage during the election season. But thanks for looking it up.

They have. You now have to be right next to them to see them. The problem is not just the ban lines, it's the access controls themselves... no matter how they're visualized. That was the point of my "lipstick" comment.

When I say that no more than 10% of the users know what the results of that checkbox are, I mean that no more than 10% know that that checkbox will make people bounce off the border of their land, even. Really.

I don't watch TV, so I wasn't consciously aware of what "its recent usage" was until I googled it. To me (I'm in Texas) it's an Anne-Richards-ism.

teh only thing worsed than n00bz was hitler and p0 pov

/me whips off her pants and waves them in salute.

I can tolerate any phrase as long as it doesn't contain both "Wall Street" and "Main Street".

Good grief!!!!

There ya go.

The check-off box in About Land that results in ban lines should read:

"By checking this box you will create a cage of bright-red lines around your build, which will be an irresistable magnet to countless avatars who will spend hours camming around every nook and cranny of your dull abode."

I suppose they'd have to reconfigure the window to fit all that in. But it would have the virtue of being True.

Sometimes I get stuck between two parcels with their own banlines, simply bouncing me around like a pinball.

They're really hard to notice too. >

Why buying a land, and not let anyone on it? Make a private house then, with LOCKS!

Geez Brenda, you look for *any* excuse!

What I wonder is why a person feels the need to ridicule newer citizens. Everyone was new once. Everyone has made mistakes. And everyone should get the chance to play with their prims. (hehe)

If and when I buy a little 512 plot, look out! If there's no covenant, you're likely to see a shanty one day, a lily pond the next, and 117 plywood torus the day after that.

Heck, you could see a shack with a pickup up on blocks because I ran out of prims!

I don't like ban lines either - but after having a constant stream of intruders rezzing themselves into my living room, usually while I was changing clothes...And who'd refuse to leave and wander around my home instead as if it was theirs...I now understand them.

(to the person who said 'get a lock' - does nothing if someone tp's in. not to mention, people doin' the do on someone's rooftop. i've seen that too. oh, my innocent sl eyes!)