A couple of sims should have a ZoningDude

You vote for the ZoningDude.

You must own at least 512 m2 to get a vote.

Alts can't vote.

The ZoningDude has the right to return any / all objects (though not delete), and to set land to no build / no script. Yes, that land could be owned by you. If it did happen to you, your best bet is to either wait for the next election or put your land up for sale if the ZoningDude does this to you.

You would probably elect the zoning dude once a month.

The difference between this and what we have now is that it's very hard to boostrap a group together, as people have to donate tier and you need to get the group together, etc.

If it's right there waiting for everyone, it will be that easier to make group builds happen.

The Lindens could experiment with this without having to make any code changes.

They could just force a sim to group land and invite anyone who buys land into the group.
A liason might have to periodically reset land to the right group if someone doesn't follow the rules.

Dude, you're getting a DUDE!

Dude...?
Like, totally rad, dude.
*twitch*

*ahem* what about a ZoningDudette?

Dudette?!

dudette. a dude. a female dude.

sorry

Dude, you're getting a knee to the groin! Or rather, a popular-vote asshole who likes griefing the few people they don't like.

Want to do this? Get a group together, have everyone pool their tiers, and sell all the land to the group. Then have someone in the group decide who can build and who can't. Simple. Non-Linden operated.

Eggy you are so funny! I am laughing

So where are the Dude's sex balls?!

Mole, you probably have the worst reading skills I've ever met of anyone on these forums.

gah! eep! ack! pfft! (insert any other onomatopoeic expression conveying great dismay)

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Which part didn't you understand, Blaze? The part where he explained to you that you could accomplish what you've proposed with zero Linden involvement, or the part where he explained the blindingly obvious flaw in your plan?

I don't mind criticism, but at least spent a second to read what I've written.

at the risk of being accused of being Eggy's alt or whatever........that's a bad idea.

so you spend some time shopping for land and find the perfect spot then some "dude" comes along and sets it so you can't build anything on it. and your only option is to hope you can vote the guy out eventually (while not using your land) or hope someone else will buy your unusable land (which no one would unless it's a means to extort land away from people for the use of the dude and his friends). not good.

who is the dude accountable to? how do you make sure he's not biased? how do you protect the 49% from the 51% who are friends with the dude? why the hello kitty should he be able to effectively steal your land? in the name of "zoning"? forget Dwellnor and Trafficvs. here's Zonedar.

i'd much rather go through the amazingly hard difficulty of bootstrapping a group together and donating some tier (which i've done and it's not really very hard) than be either forced into a group i might not want or forced out of land i do want.

also ZoningDude is a lame name.

I was thinking we could try this with just one sim to see what happens. I do realise it may blow up in our faces, but it would be an interesting experiment.

As for ZoningDude, yeah, but I thought ZoningLord or ZoningPresident would freak everyone out.

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Viva le Bill!

The zoningdude would be a happy happy dude for the month he is elected. Money, cybersex, friends, all would come to him during this month

That says it all right there.

I could be zoning girl. However it would require 1) you trust me enough to let me hold your land 2) you pay your tier fee to me instead of Linden Lab.

And that's the problem. Trust. We're all a bunch of paranoid psychotics. None of us want to trust one another (though perhaps with good reason .. would you trust a paranoid psychotic?)

If Linden Labs sponsored this, then we would have someone we could trust. And again.. I'm thinking just need to do this for one sim. No coding changes required.

it doesn't really matter if it's someone you can trust. what matters is if you can do something about it if/when it turns out you can't trust them. same thing irl. you don't have to trust your business partners like family members but you know you have contracts and laws and police and courts and slimy attorneys and even a torch and pitchfork if they screw you.

we're paranoid here because there's nothing to keep people trustworthy and so people act less trustworthy.

lol people, I think you have been had.

I'm pretty sure blaze is joking.

Strange.. in Beta we had whole-sim group projects without group land...

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Amen. That's the way to do it. Down with ZoningDudes. They are merely inner core feted, etc.