Less griefing OF Landowners - more griefing BY Landowners ?

More than a year ago I fell out in forum with a well known person who probably fell out with more persons than anyone in forum history, and suffered for it.

Unfortunately I owned, and still do, land adjacent to hers, and to my astonishment she brought her forum animosity into the world, and set up a ban list on the relevant plots. Banning me and several she guessed (largely erroneously) to be my alts.

I could easily fly over, and if this made her feel better, I did not much mind. I refrained from responding with any reciprocal ban, preferring to hope the animosity would die. This is how the situation remained for a long time (can it be a year ?).

But when I returned to find the ban height at 200m, this was no longer a mere inconvenience. This altered things.

I reversed my decision of a year ago, and set up a blanket ban. This would present her and her tenants and their customers with the same annoying glass wall on the boundary as I was enduring. I was hoping she would receive some puzzled complaints, realise my reasons, and correct the situation, or at least contact me to negotiate.

I have now heard from her, explained the situation, and I have offered to remove all bans if she unbans me, suggesting friendly cooperation.

I tell you this story not because I think it interesting in itself, but because it illustrates how raising the ban height to 200, and now, it seems, 768m has the unfortunate result of elevating neighbor-to-neighbor ban line griefing from a small annoyance to a major thing.

Many people must be experiencing this unfortunate side-effect. Lets hope that in most cases it encourages de-escalation rather than the opposite, though in my case I am not hopeful.

There are much worse situations, of course, where a bully surrounds and isolates someone he wants to buy out. At 768m this will now be a true nightmare. Fortunately my neighbor and I are not in that situation, but heaven help those who are.

I totally agree, raising the limit to 768 is an ideal griefing tool against your neighbors. I'm practically boxed in by my neighbors. 50 meters isnt as bad as 200, but at ground level it is. May as well ban bith of my neighbors and let then stare at a 768 meter tower till they drop their global bans.

SL is becoming a very very unfriendly place these days, and I am very close to calling it quits.

Linden Labs wouldn't care if you quit. After all, there will be 1000 alts to take your place. These days it all about quantity and not quality. <sigh>

I just recently had to throw up my ban lines. It seems my new neighbor has a military fascination and now has built an airport on his land. The worst part is that he and his fellow "soldiers " now have military maneuvers on all surrounding land plots.
I was out in my yard yesterday building a waterfall and a bunch of soldiers came running right by me without an apology or a care for my privacy or my property.

After they went through I popped up in the air and watched them as they proceeded to treat all of the other properties in my area with the same lack of respect.

Ban lines went up and they'll stay up until I decide otherwise.

I don't have a huge plot of land so flying around won't be a problem. I can understand the issues with large plots of land being a nuisance to flyovers, but peoples' privacy should be respected....if not, then they have every right in thier power to get their privacy.