Boycott of Adfarmers

I dont know if its just me but those ad farms are totally gross. I just wonder what people would think of boycotting people who leave big spinning FOR SALE signs all over a piece of land, dragging down the property value. And those spinning pictures of sticky naked chicks make this game a wasteland.

Just my 2 cent

You got my vote. But it won't change..........SL is no longer a world for the residents to "dream their dreams". It's great big platform for business..........small time SL businesses to huge real world corporations. There is nothing in the TOS that forbids anyone from doing anything except maybe griefing or attacking others. Someone can put a huge 500 meter high black wall completely around your property and put ban lines up and there is nothing you can do..........no laws or odinances about things such as that. It's unreal how LL thinks sometimes to me.

I better stop............there are at least 4 people on this forum that think I hate Second Life and I should leave. And I'm not going to get banned for voicing my opinion.

Are the adfarms and spinning for sale signs and such problems in private estate sims such as Anshe Chung's or Adam Zaius's?

What mainland sims don't have such things, and why not?

Grindlewald is a mainland sim that doesn't have a glob of crappy signs. Why not? Because the land owners aren't the glob-of-crappy-signs type.

There's a glob of crappy signs right at the sim border, though.

I've got reasonable land holdings in a few sims, and none of them have any major amount of advertising visual polution.

Depending on the prices when I first move into a sim I either buy the ad plots and combine them into my land, or if I can see them from my land and they want silly money for the plot I take legal measures to ensure that I can't see them.

Oh, and for any people considering using the services of such system, I and almost everyone I know will NOT visit your shop/showroom if we see you on an Ad Plot sign.

I'm also one who won't do business with the "ad farm" folks, and I have some right ON my propery line. Since I use a skybox almost exclusively they don't really actively bother me most of the time. (I have spent a few of my precious prims to put some Linden trees on the ground, just because it looks better than the empty plot. Kinda nice having a semi-sorta-mini-forest there.)

What I've always wondered is how these things could possibly be profitable. I know they don't usually cost much, and don't add much to the tier costs (unless someone's dumb enough to buy just 16sqm that puts them in the next tier), but does anyone actually buy something based on these ads?

To me they are just like the spam I get in my email - I guess someone must fall for the stupidity, since there's so much of it out there, but it sure ain't gonna be me!

Can you tell I hate them too? Sadly, I don't really see any way of stopping them.

I like the "visual pollution".



Unless it's been changed recently, I believe there's a rule that you have to allow access to someone's land and can't box it in like that.

I'm guessing it's the same people who fall for the pyramid schemes, which also litter the ad plots. I've discovered that invisi-prims hide them nicely.

When I sell land, I do put up For Sale signs - though mine don't spin. The spinning ones give my AV motion sickness. Some people actually don't realize that the land is for sale unless there's a for sale sign there, believe it or not.

I dont know about those two, I would assume they are not allowed there though. Few island owners, especially myself, will tolerate loud obnoxious things like spinning signs and the like.

Matter of fact, its all that crap that lead me to buy my islands. Well, that and some twit stuck a huge pink BUNNEE building right in the middle of the lake that i had a lot of property on..

The Coonspiracy has gotten rid of most of the ad signs on Noonkkot. We've found that when there's a bunch of (legitimate, mind you) vegetation and buildings around the ad plots, the ad sign farmers don't bother keeping 'em. It takes a few months for the land to revert, and there's still a little clutter, but with patience you can clean things up.

Is it just a fluke that the parcel owners in that sim are all no-crappy-sign types?

I think it's a matter of there only being four landowners in the sim, who all want to buy any land that goes on the market here (we'd all like more land, but we don't want to go somewhere else to get it). We aren't absentee landowners, so we're the ones who'd be looking at any ugly signs we put up. There's a sense of community in the sim, and three out of four of us have been in the sim for years and consider it "home."