It is rather sad to hear that land swooping is becoming a larger problem. There used to be a time where the big land sellers would ask sellers if they had made a mistake and refund the land after the mistake. You can't expect people to always be ethical when no rules are being broken. There is a limit to what rules can do. No matter what the system, there will always be people who make mistakes. The only true solution is to have people with a conscience. Unfortunately, there is no way to force that on the masses.
As for the OP. I think she has proven to be one of the people who has a long history of working ethically. I say this as a former competitor of hers from last year. You don't have to take my word for it. Just wait until you make a mistake, and you will count yourself lucky if she is the one to purchase your land. You will quickly get it back. I've made mistakes as a land seller myself after sims upon sims of sales. Mistakes are inevitable for old residents as well as new.
One idea I haven't seen done yet, is a well known private site run by non-land sellers listing unethical sellers. You can't do it in the forums, but if residents are getting pissed off, they can pool together some money and run a website.
As for the OP. I think she has proven to be one of the people who has a long history of working ethically. I say this as a former competitor of hers from last year. You don't have to take my word for it. Just wait until you make a mistake, and you will count yourself lucky if she is the one to purchase your land. You will quickly get it back. I've made mistakes as a land seller myself after sims upon sims of sales. Mistakes are inevitable for old residents as well as new.
One idea I haven't seen done yet, is a well known private site run by non-land sellers listing unethical sellers. You can't do it in the forums, but if residents are getting pissed off, they can pool together some money and run a website.
As to your first point, I think that the system for selling land could be improved to make it a lot simpler for the seller to do what they intend to do, without making it more complicated for those of us who know what they're doing.
On the second point, I've dealt with the OP before and she has indeed proved ethical. A few months back, I was trading land with my neighbor, who wound up setting it for sale for $L1 and she showed up, made sure that the land didn't get swooped, warned him about the dangers of Land Swooping, and sold it back to him for that same $L1. She could have grabbed it if she had wanted to, but she didn't.
Finally, I think that a list of known land swoopers would be a very good thing, and I've talked to my neighbor already about it, and we're both willing to set our land and security to ban known swoopers, and I'm sure that plenty of others would be willing to do so too.
If anyone wants to IM me inworld with names, I'd appreciate it.
