The "Advertiser" at Waterhead created by Ryan Linden does not appear to work.
It is capable of sending out some instructions, and telling people they took too long to drop in their texture and notecard. But so far as I can tell, it doesn't display any ads.
The permissions on the texture and notecard I Control dropped (what an awkward way to do thing) on the "Click here to place ad" are set correctly, so far as I can tell.
The texture's properties are Next Owner can: Modify, Copy.
It responds: "Advertiser whispers: Sending Ad . . .
Advertiser: Unable to give inventory: Blocked by permissions
Advertiser: Unable to give inventory: Blocked by permissions
Advertiser whispers: Click for instructions"
In addition to not currently displaying anything, or displaying anything when you click on the forward and back control objects, it also uses the public chat channel , generating useless confusion on the already crowded public chat channel. It should be possible to use instant messages and thus avoid this added chat spam. It is also careful to mention your name several times, making you look like you are somewhat incompetent.
It would be better to have a texture with the instructions printed on it, so that they could be read and absorbed before starting the process. The instructions should suggest that the texture and notecard should be placed next to each other in a separate folder for rapid access, or that two inventory windows be opened simultaneously with the texture showing in one and the notecard showing in the other, since manipulating your way through the SL inventory system is such a slow process that you can time out simply while doing that. Another possibility would be to have a notecard with instructions appear rather than sending the script's instruction messages through the public chat channel, where they can be scrolled out of sight. Possibly the dialog box script command could be used to good effect, I can't speak from experience on that because I have never used that LSL function.
At any rate, I think it bears some attention, or if it can't be made to work properly, be removed.
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