Abuse Reporting and the problems associated with it.

*BOGGLES*

Umm, how is some equally applied limit placed on how my land can affect you and your land can affect me in any way bad?

First, for someone who is so concerned about gaming traffic they file abuse reports and to incite others to do so, while they are camping at the place they are reporting is unconscionable. Not only that but for their group profiles to be full of camping groups, one of which they are the owner of. Really do I have to spell it out for you? This person has a main character who has been in SL since 2004 and are themselves involved in camping. Seems to me it was more a malicious attack on another Sim owner who probably pissed them off somewhere down the line with competition or whatever. My guess is they were turned down for virtual sex. (joking)

Actually, it is proof, because the traffic increased before the camping equipment was put out. As I said before, he has done many other things to increase his traffic which are perfectly legal. Besides, everyone has a different view as to what should be factored into the results.

Do you think that a zoning law requiring a building to be 100 away from the front property line is such a limit?

No he was reported by campers on his own sim and they continued to camp after they reported him until he came on 2 hours later and banned them from his sim and took them off his group. One started the whole thing in group chat and cited other campers in the same sim to put in reports. I have the whole chat log for that group and the whole thing was ridiculous. The one who incited the reporting was camping on his sim at the time of reporting him, and continued to sit there collecting his linden after the report as did the others she incited to report. He was banned this morning for 5 mins, then came back on, had an im conversation with a linden and was banned again. This time he has not been let back on as of this post. Not only that, but the inciter openly admits in this group chat that she has a main avatar that is dated back to 2004. I find this kind of thing atrocious. The fact she would make an alt to collect linden from someone elses camping equipment and report them at the same time. Not only that but her alt is in numerous camping groups one of which is her own. Go figure.

100 microns? 100 parsecs? The unit sort of matters if a question is about a quantity.

Either way though, zoning laws are what is appropriate to the area. If 100 (whatever) is the average setback of your neighbors from the road then why should special little you get an advantage?

You're sidestepping the issue. Your previous post wasn't simply about the law being equally applied, but also asserted that zoning laws are a "limit placed on how my land can affect you..." It's not a matter of me or anyone getting an advantage, it's a matter of why should government have the authority to dictate a setback in the first place?

Umm, how is some equally applied limit placed on how my land can affect you and your land can affect me in any way bad?

No he was reported by campers on his own sim and they continued to camp after they reported him until he came on 2 hours later and banned them from his sim and took them off his group. One started the whole thing in group chat and cited other campers in the same sim to put in reports. I have the whole chat log for that group and the whole thing was ridiculous. The one who incited the reporting was camping on his sim at the time of reporting him, and continued to sit there collecting his linden after the report as did the others she incited to report. He was banned this morning for 5 mins, then came back on, had an im conversation with a linden and was banned again. This time he has not been let back on as of this post. Not only that, but the inciter openly admits in this group chat that she has a main avatar that is dated back to 2004. I find this kind of thing atrocious. The fact she would make an alt to collect linden from someone elses camping equipment and report them at the same time. Not only that but her alt is in numerous camping groups one of which is her own. Go figure.

You are only quoting me partially:


That pretty much IS the definition of equal treatment. A government exists to balance the needs of different people. Do not like their decisions? Vote for someone else.

You're only quoting yourself partially, and you're reduced it to "any law is moral as long as it's applied equally" or "any law is moral as long as it's enacted democratically."

Where I live, zoning laws must be voted on by town meeting, not elected officials. And I've helped draft some of them. So I've struggled with many of these issues. I disagree with your oversimplification, but also disagree with Chris's blanket dismissal.

Some zoning laws, such as limiting activities in aquifer zones, are quite justifiable (if you accept any notion of a public resource such as an aquifer used for drinking water). Others are contrived to interfere with free speech, or grant privileges to religious groups, or simply be elitist. And zoning laws are notorious for not being enforced equally.

It's a scummy thing to do - and it does suggest a particular person to me.

But the ARs were justified. 5 minutes wasn't bad. What the second ban was for hasn't been stated. Perhaps he was less than courteous to the Linden he was talking with when he got back in.

What happened to yesterday's discussion of this incident? Did it turn nasty and get deleted?

Come on, Phil. The first ban was not "justified" unless they are going to do it to everyone on the grid. I see campers on my map every single day.....in almost every plot. 24/7