ad farms do you boycot what they advertise?

when you see ad farms on mainlands do you go out of your way to remember them and then boycott te places they advertise?

don`t even look at them when i see 1 and just hit the turbo to have it out of my view asap

I dont find the advertising offensive. I do look from here and there if its not cluttered.

but what is horrible is dozens of the same ad spinning. thats not advertising, thats just junk.

I've never found a business that did mass advertising worth my money to begin with, so I've never had to decide to boycott them or not.

I ignore them pretty much. The ones I have noticed seem to be for off world concerns mostly.

i have a few next to my new shop i wish i could afford them 3 or 4 advertise some learn about hydrogen website and the others spin and advertise get paid to read email but they are 8 16sqm plots and me and my partner could only get 4 of them but they would total over 2k so out of our budget right now and there would still be the other 4 spinning there..plus there is the 336sqm plot next to us we can buy it would take us over tier that the person has priced at 100k cuz its next to linden land oh wel ill just keep my view towards te other cute properties on the other side

but i have started keeping mental notes lately on in game places that use spinning ads and making sure i never go to them

I agree with that sentiment!

I would certainly boycott such things on principle alone, if I could ever remember who was advertising that way. The fact of the matter is that the adfarm style of advertising is just so much "white noise", and I will immediately leave any place where I see one, so I don't even get enough of a look at them to remember who to boycott.

In my RL, I have a very strong pet peeve about ubiquitous advertising, and cannot just teleport away, so I often do boycott RL companies that engage in intrusive advertising.

I feel so strongly about it that (for example) every single magazine that I buy, the very first thing I do is go through and rip out all of the advertising inserts and straight into the garbage they go without so much as a single glance! I absolutely can't stand perfumed inserts, foldout ads, or inserts that are thick so that they force the magazine to "magically open to that spot". I never even look at them.


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Okay... swivel your head in RL and count the number of ad images/logos you see around you. Look carefully. Count all of them. Now make a mental note of that space and never go there.

Boycott would be the wrong word for it. I don't shop or decide to go somewhere based on anyones advertising spam. As another poster said, I ignore them if I can. If they are built next to my property (so that I can't ignore it), i build a nice hedge on that side... something attractive to look at.

The same is true for the other marketing spams... sending an unrequested group invite to a store group (one i've never been to or heard of) or, sending me an unrequested LM to a store (again never heard of or been to). All these accomplish is that i will take a few seconds to look the sender up in search, then mute them so they can't do it again.

If i'm looking for something, i'll do a keyword search, and look at the places that pop up in the search. I normally start at the bottom of the list (lowest traffic) because sometimes a rare gem can be found in a new store just starting out. If I can't find what I want... I ask people who might know where to find it. No ad spam needed there.

Ad farms, I hate them.

I boycott the products, and block the ads at every chance I get.

The arbor project has a land cutter/ Advertiser “ban list probe”, and I Place one on each of my properties and on ad lots that don’t restrict building.

Please do a search for “ Arbor Project “ and participate however you can. It all we can really do at the moment to fight the blight.

Perhaps basing a tier on the NUMBER of lot if you own below 1024sqm might be a good suggestion

It should be a number high enough to give people with servers, vendor or productive small lot builds some “Elbow room”, but low enough to provide a disincentive to set up dozens or hundreds of 16sqm plots for ads.

Certified not for profit groups, fundraising with their own ads should be exempt

Weird I don't really see these ad farms you're talking about. I think my mind just blanks them out like banner ads. I guess if can ever recall what they contain I would boycott them.

Most of it is blight. I usually don't look twice at repetitive ad server promos unless they appear intelligently designed and for an arts or cultural event. Rarely, if ever, do I visit a website or company that utilizes ugly ads and billboard placement practices that detract from communities.

I see ad farms the same way as I would see a row of smoldering factory chimneys, spewing foul smoke up into the air. I don't ever stop to read what they have to say and wouldn't do business with the advertisers if I did. Billboards are not a way to attrack customers, that's why we have classifieds and search tools. Yes, they are not perfect, but also don't pollute our neighborhoods. I've also noticed that there's more and more 16s abandoned to Gov Linden, with the auto return off. Most still displaying advertising. Since the Lindens don't actually put 16s for auction, these will become the next battlefield.

You can't see the BILLIONS of ad farms in Second Life. Oh noes! You must be part of the vast ad farm conspiracy.

All kidding aside. The entire premise of the argument is: Having an intense dislike for someone else's object located on someone else's land and the ensuing frustration over people doing things with their own property while not seeking advice from the Busy Body Committee means something... anything... must be boycotted.

So if abandoned 16 sq meter lots are not auctioned, what happens to them? For whatever reason, abandoned land seems to usually have build on and autoreturn off. I wonder why this is... if anything autoreturn should at least be set to something other than off.

If you're seeing alot of these, then what's happening is someone is making a premium account, buying ad lots, loading them up with ads, then abandoning them. Then repeating the process. What a deal for the advertisers.

Some bright spark plonked down a sim scanner on a 16 sq m parcel opposite my place in Eson and promptly abandoned it to Governor Linden. I raised a support ticket about that and several other abandoned 16 sq m parcels with no autoreturn but............. they're still there

All I got out of that was multiple pages of people saying "search for Arbor Project"

I guess I boycott them. I never really look at the ads anymore and have never clicked on one.

On the rare occasion I'd actually buy something it's usually from a place that's more into quality of product than making a quick buck with the ghetto spit-ball method that ad farms employ.

Ad farms: the reason why most of SL has multiple floors!

Exactly!!



Really? I've filed 3 such Support Tickets and had them all fixed within 72 hours (weekends too longer). All 3 were answered by Lotte Linden. Maybe she's on vacation LOL

~Jessy

I don't normally end up in places where ad farms exist, but I dounbt I'd wanna buy anyting from em. Jes like banner ads onna web, which I dun never click.

Mari

These lowlifes don't miss a trick do they?
Because the ad is their object, they can modify it at will even though they are not paying tier on the plot.

Speaking of lowlifes, I posted a while back about a perp who was setting a 3-prim tall fast-rotating 'For Sale' sign on land that allowed anyone to build. If seen more samples of his 'work'. Click the sign, you can buy a copy of it for 100L$ - over and over again.


Calling a TOSbot to the courtesy telephone!
Yes, ED we know he's not contravening the TOS.

In my travels, I've yet to see an adfarm ad for anything worth investigating further, with one exception: a lot of blue ads for a well-known RL real estate firm that has an odd little in-world presence. (Just elaborate enough to seem unlikely to be a simple logo-pirate, but by corporate standards, pretty embarrassing.) Anywy, I stopped long enough to leave a note in their suggestion box, advising that they consider if the brand might be compromised by the nearly universal disdain for adfarm ads. But the ads are still there after months, so if anyone reads the suggestions at all, perhaps it's the same person responsible for the ad buy, and guessed (rightly, so far) that I'd not write to head of marketing at the RL real estate firm.

I've been travelling around mainland quite a bit lately. Boy, the ad farms are really numerous, and some of them can be really obnoxious. I also seem to see a correlation between presence of ad farms and presence of ban lines on neighboring properies, so I wonder if some of their owners grief or invite griefers? What a joy setting them up must be to your more pathological passive-aggressive personalities!

No, I never read them either, so I don't boycott what I never see. But if I did, I certainly would.

I've never been tempted to go and see anything advertised at ad farms, tho I don't boycott them as such.
I do, however, disapprove of them being used to advertise RL goods or services.

Not much to add from what others said. I don't boycott them because I don't look at them. Just notice how ugly they are, sigh, and move on.

The only time I looked was when I was brand new and I don't recall anything on them that would be of interest to me so in a sense I'm already boycotting I guess.