Land owners' responsibility for overall impression

Hi all,

one question.
I live at a winterland region, which overall is white.
A new land owner came in and built three very large floors of flat green land to sell prefab houses.
He or she did not think of the overall impression, there is no try to make the "shop" (which has no walls, no other "natural" appearance) fit the landscape.
Neighbors now have a horrible horizon, for it's no sky shop, but a "skyscraper high" ugly plot of land...
Plateaus are reaching over the land borders, not touching the ground and so on and on.
Maybe you can imagine...?!

Is there any responsibility of the land owners to think of the overall impression, or can a 6K-land owner terrorize all his neighbors by laughing at them (which the lady who was editing did on me)?

Are there any rules?

Regards
Jazzy

Happy you asked, Jazzy. Now, the guidelines for Second Life are pretty simple. Besides the "be good to one another" basics, there are the Community Standards which are the fundamentals to be followed in SL. There are some things which aren't necessarily against the CS, but are nevertheless not nice to do.

I know what happens in snow land. It can be cheaper, so some Resis wanting a bargain will buy it to save L$, and then put grass! That in itself is not against the "rules". Nor are the other variations I've seen like putting prims textured like dirt, or colored blocks on the snow.

I always advise genial communication first. Get to know your neighbor, ask if there's any way you can work together to make the view agreeable to both.

There are also technical tricks, like setting up a wall which is transparent on one side and has a texture of your choice on the other facing you. That way, you don't see the grass.

And if that doesn't work, remember: in Second Life, a lot of things change. People move all the time, things which seemed so heated and bothering one month are forgotten the next.

Stay optimistic, enthusiastic, and if you have any better ideas for them, suggest! In social situations, since we've given such a freedom of expression in this world, there are not draconian laws for what you can put on your own land, but as I know: it's nice to be nice.