Advertising as HArrassment

The only solution to that would be to not let anyone alter land they buy in any way whatsover. Give us all picnic baskets and SL can just be a big "sitting around in the grass" simulator.

Why cannot commercial areas be restricted, and domestic housing be protected? After all, there are laws in RL to prevent ugly building.

I have a different theory, and all this feeds that, too. That (a) the Lindens don't much care about the mainland, which they consider inhabited by the riff-raff, (b) they want to sell more islands, and this is a good way to ensure that, and (c) they agree with the message on the sign and hope to attract residents who do as well.

Thanks for all your feedback on this issue of Advertising signage. Other people have told me that the reason Linden Labs doesn't have any zoning or restrictions is because they lack the manpower to police restictions. Apparently there are only 70 people employed by Linden Labs to manage 100,000 residents. Thats roughly 1500 residents per staff member. Of course the ratio is mucy higher because many of the staff are just programers and not involved in any Linden management function.

She could just as easily argue that you were harassing her by making demands about how she uses her own land. You can try and work out a polite agreement with your neighbor but they are under no obligation to cooperate. If she doesn't you ARE obliged to accept that as her right. This sense of entitlement many people feel over land they do not own is in my opinion a far bigger and more serious problem than any signage. You don't have a right to tell your neighbor what to do. Period. If after speaking to your neighbor they don't want to comply with your demands and you continue to bother them about it, you are the one doing the harassment. Sorry.

1.1 The Agreement.
Your use of the Service constitutes your agreement to all such terms and conditions and your agreement to comply with the Community Standards.

6. Disturbing the Peace
Every Resident has a right to live their Second Life. Disrupting scheduled events, repeated transmission of undesired advertising content, the use of repetitive sounds, following or self-spawning items, or other objects that intentionally slow server performance or inhibit another Resident's ability to enjoy Second Life are examples of Disturbing the Peace.

So...

LL considers the mainland rif-raf...

And they want to attract more of the same rif-raf...

Who aren't buying islands, which is what they want people to do...

*head aslpode*

I would take the 100,000 residents with a HUGE grain of salt. Why? Because the other day a friend of mine wanted to try out SL, he's a scripter and loves challenges and new things. I was visiting so I walked him thru the sign up. He wanted a particular name. But when he checked the "is this name available" button it said it wasnt available. So I signed into SL and the name wasnt in the list. I had him email support and told him someone probably picked the name but never finished registration. They responded back quickly (kudos!) saying the name was taken and the account was active and something about they dont do account transfers. Their response lead me to believe they didnt understand our request. So we sent another email to support being super clear. They responded back again saying it IS an active account. But to this day that account is not in the list of player names.

This leads me to wonder, how many of the so called 100,000 residents are partial and incomplete registrations? I assume there is no way of hiding your name from FIND Person? Maybe if you sign up but never log in you are active but not 'created'?

No sense of entitlement, Chris, unless one feels entitled to LL enforcing their own TOS.

I think you were quoting Chip, not Chris.

I think you were quoting Chip, not Chris.

Is the 70 FTE number all employees (programmers, admins, accountants, Philip, dog walkers, etc) or is it just counting dedicated in world support staff?

Is the 70 FTE number all employees (programmers, admins, accountants, Philip, dog walkers, etc) or is it just counting dedicated in world support staff?

Add the fact that this number doesn't work 24 hours a day the support ratio starts to climb pretty high again even adjusting for concurrent avs.

Whatever the actual true ratio is, I suspect it will get a lot more diluted. Just a feeling.

"6. Disturbing the Peace
Every Resident has a right to live their Second Life. Disrupting scheduled events, repeated transmission of undesired advertising content, the use of repetitive sounds, following or self-spawning items, or other objects that intentionally slow server performance or inhibit another Resident's ability to enjoy Second Life are examples of Disturbing the Peace. "

Signs are not breaking this rule. "repeated transmission of undesired advertising content" means spamming, or IMing people with ads. The fact your AV looks at a sign wouldn't be a reason the AR the sign owner under this rule.

"6. Disturbing the Peace
Every Resident has a right to live their Second Life. Disrupting scheduled events, repeated transmission of undesired advertising content, the use of repetitive sounds, following or self-spawning items, or other objects that intentionally slow server performance or inhibit another Resident's ability to enjoy Second Life are examples of Disturbing the Peace. "

Signs are not breaking this rule. "repeated transmission of undesired advertising content" means spamming, or IMing people with ads. The fact your AV looks at a sign wouldn't be a reason the AR the sign owner under this rule.

Undesired? I'd say yes... (notice the CS doesn't specify undesired by *whom*). Another resident's abilility to enjoy Second Life? Goes without saying.

This leads me to wonder, how many of the so called 100,000 residents are partial and incomplete registrations? I assume there is no way of hiding your name from FIND Person? Maybe if you sign up but never log in you are active but not 'created'?

Signage is not "transmission" of advertising.

That section of the TOS isn't about signage. Signage is not "transmission" of advertising. That covers things like notecard and IM spamming. I'm not unsympathetic towards those that hate signage but it's not against the rules.

You don't think "other object" covers signs?

No. It's not trasmitting anything. That language was added to the TOS as a result of people putting notecard spammers near the hubs so that anyone who came in range of them got an unwanted advertising notecard.