Event Ads

Hi Torely,

In the events Ads. why is the maximum time for an event 3 hours? And only 5 events allowed to be posted per person?

Thats only 15 hours of events per person/parcel allowed. Why don't you make it up to 24 hours? Just increase the 3 hr button to go up to about 5 hours for the maxiumum event time? Or even make a 24 hour button/category, so that theres 1 Ad in this section per day for people doing events 24/7?

I've had a problem with having an island, of trying to sort out events, between parcels and people posting them, to try to cover 24 hours worth of events a day, and landmarks. It's taken over a week to sort out. Are Lindens going to make something more user friendly in the future?

Happy day to you Leah--

The answer "why" is because of reasonable human limits. As events require a host to be present as like it says in the Event Posting Rules (hmmm... I can't seem to get them to come up today, I may need to report a bug!), it's rare and outright irregular that one person could have the energy to keep hosting a specific event for more than 3 hours or an accumulative of 15 hours (5 in a day), which strikes a balance. With multiple people (hosts) involved, this isn't really a worry, though.

In your situation, sounds like as long as the land is set up correctly per the rules and you have multiple hosts, you shouldn't run afoul of anything.

To such ends, we recognize there are festivals like "umbrella events" with many smaller events within them. These often operate *outside* the realm of the Events listing limits. Two good examples are Second Life's 3rd Birthday and the recent Relay For Life.

We do have plans to improve the Events listing. They likely won't be coming soon because of all the other community projects being worked on first; regardless, it's something I'm keenly aware of, and, I might add, leaves a gaping hole wide open for Resident-run ingenuity.