Am I a big cheat?

I have a platform near the outlands where I work on projects when I want to be left relatively alone and lag free. I was just thinking that I hadn't been on in a couple of days and I started to worry that my objects were decaying to public, and I might loose them before I got the chance to log back in.

Then I remembered that I wanted to buy the land under the platform but I couldn't because the whole area is Linden owned. So my objects are on owned land and therefore not decaying.

Is this gaming the system? Discuss.

You're not cheating. You didn't even realize at first that your objects wouldn't decay there. Even if you HAD realized it, the land you have them on is obviously set to allow building.

[ feature request -- instead of one blanket "allow building" on land, change it to "allow public to build" -- allow the owner to build all the time, but let said owner decide whether other people can build there or not ]

Yes please!

For what it's worth, your platform can become a great public service. As it stands now, my own "platform" the Dante, is open for anyone to build on. Maybe there could be a sort of unnoficial service that allows people to use space uninterrupted? Book a room so to speak... I'm sure you still want to use your platform though, lol, but it's always something to think about if in the future. Or maybe that could be some sort of communal project, floating public areas (could save some space planet side, not sure what it would do to framerates though, hehe). Anyway, you know me (even if you wish to God you didnt), I cant go too long w/o butting my rambling head into something, lol.

PS: I agree with Shebang Sunshine on this one, you are anything but a cheat Wednesday, although you might want to put some thought on enforcing street maintenance in Lindenburg, lol, looks like Rangoon suburbia (what little there is, that's in Myanmar FYI, Burma to many, hehe) during a reletive "hard time", although the town it self is growing nicely, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Shebang, i think that's how it currently works. if you set your land to no build, you can still build there.
Wednesday, i think you're fine. if said Linden doesn't want your platform on his land, he can delete it any time he wishs.

Hmmm.. musta been the lag monster keeping me from building on my plot in Tehama that first night then, cuz I did have it set "no build" and it wasn't lettin' me build...

I don't think that's cheating at all.. I do the same thing, being a n00b who (a) doesn't have the credits to buy a decent plot of land and (b) who is still playing around with building as a whole. I never leave the items there if I log off, though.

I do, however, think that all items built on "public unclaimed" land should decay, and decay rather fast, then disappear. Otherwise all worlds could (and probably will) end up with junk items that no one cares about (even the owner) stick in-between everyone's hard work that they're paying taxes on, and turning the Linden's into SL's trash collectors, going around deleting random objects. All these random objects are wasted bandwidth, IMHO.

I suggest all objects placed on "public unclaimed" lands set to decay and delete within 24 hours, and a pad or two placed somewhere in each area where people can work on projects without having to buy land, that decays at a much slower rate so they don't have to worry about losing their stuff if they don't log in for a few days. Anything longer than that, people should just take their project into their inventory and drag it out to work on it again.

::edit(); and as a common courtesy, for SL etiquette, if you DO own land, don't junk it up with the 50000 projects you've worked on in the last 2 months, but might not have touched for 59 days. Even though it's not seen (under your floor / whatever) it's still an object, and while it may be in your cache, it ain't in mine.