Ad`farm protests as bad as ad farms

Recently there has been a proliferation of ugly devices like huge tree backdrops or stacked cubes placed by people opposed to ad farms.

So I'm thinking that ad farm blockers are causing as much of an eyesore as the ads they are tryng to fight.

So what we need is a new idea that combats the proliferation of ad farms and ad farm blockers!!!

I sell boxed goods from 32m plots made from pairs of 16s saved from becoming ad lots. To me a blocking cube on the lot next to mine is as bad as an ad cube.

Well, short of being able to report them and have thier land taken away OR making it so you can't divide land by such a small section there's not much else that can be done.

Tall cubes are annoying but at least they don't spin and advertise stupid sh@#!

I keep trying to come up with a better suggestion than the cubes, but I keep coming up dry in the inspiration.

Try using small flat invisible alpha-textured squares, if you are just trying to fill the plot.

When I've wanted to hide ads at my place I put a semi-transparent blue-grey screen along the boundary that roughly matches the sky colour. The ads are still visible but in muted tones!

That should work most of the time, actually!

I am working on a 60+ meter clock tower in Ennin, added the movement last night, I wish I knew how to post a Slurl as I know the other two columns need something on them but I can't think of what... ramparts didn't look right and pointy spires block the clock. I also buy land next to ad fields if it is reasonable... build a mondo phantom wall, make it alpha looking in blocker out, plant a huge linden, drop a box of squirrels and a bench.

Hmmmm. I am guilty of placing large tree backdrops and hedges to block the view of the rotating ads myself, and had not considered that they might be offensive too, though I would rather see a longer view than my own "walls".

I will remove them tonight, but I would really like to hear more suggestions about what people do in this case. The semi-alpha seems like it might be a good idea. I will have to try that and see how it looks.

More ideas anyone? (Sorry, I cannot afford the 9,999L they are asking for the 16 sqm plot!)

And thank you, OP, for bringing this to my attention.

I'd much rather see the backdrops than the ads.

u r free to do what u want on ur land

why should they not be free to do what they want.

i just put up walls on my land so i dont have to see them with pretty textures on them

i dont mind them i just dont have to see them if i dont want to

I dropped a box of squirrels once in college. I was high for a week.

Ignore the OP. You are fully within your rights to block the spam.

The alpha think would work on transparent ads, but what about the solid ones? There are a few in my area (that someone made a huge 16mx16mx200m box around today) that aren't transparent and the alpha wouldn't work on them.

What could one do for those?

As for my and my area, I generally make a build high above the land or in a manner that doesn't depend on outside scenery for it's looks.

I also have land in a nice sim where there is a lot of protected land making a nice waterway. The neighbors all seem to be interested in good builds, too. Lucky me!

I think we are out of luck on solid ones.

I have a tree that fits perfectly on a 16 for cases like this.

I usually try to at least put something decorative (and phantom) if I can't put something invisible.

Free "anti-ad farm Redwood Trees" whose trunks had a 17m radius would be a good thing! They'd have to be well made, though.

Its my land, if I want to put a giant tree there, I will. Its just a coincedence that it is in front of an ad for some broadly offensive venue -

I think your position on this is based on the fact that you use reclaimed ad lots to sell your boxed goods, and if people block the view of other ad lots, other people cannot see the goods that you are selling on your lot. So the war on ad farms is hurting your business, perhaps?

I'm all for people blocking ads from their view. It's their land, and they have the right to put up whatever they like in order to enjoy it, within TOS. Making ad blocking devices attractive is of course preferable - but one person's idea of attractive may differ from another's.

I will add that pretty much ANYTHING is better to me than a spinning ad cube. Those things give me headaches.

I think 'normal' tree screens are fine - it's those giant conifer ones that I don't like (despite my name!) - some of them are 3D and invade small plots, some of which might be in use for purposes other than ads - like market stalls as in my case.

Ad farms, in theory, should be self-limiting because if everywhere was ad farms, people would be even less likely to sudy the ads and there'd be less room for actual shops, clubs etc. But that's probably no consolation if you've got an ad farm next to you!

What I am beginning to find objectionable, though, is ad cubes advertising RL services or places as they need no tie-in to SL, whereas cubes advertising SL things usually mean there is a place somewhere in-world upon which the ad depends for its existence.

If SL becomes littered with ad farms advertising RL things, it means parts of our world will be turned into nothing more than a 3D directory.

I hate ad farms. I hate casinos. I hate ugly houses that people put up next to my home.

But just like I would not want someone dictating to me what I can or cannot do on my property, which I pay for, I'd never say anything to them either. It sucks, but it should be readily apparant that Second Life is no more, or possibly less, fair than real life.

When I first purchased my land, I had a beautiful forest to the east, a huge ugly plywood PVP-enabled arena to my south, a casino to the west and a blocked parcel with red tape and an ad farm north of me. I think the reason I got the land so cheap was because it was so ugly.

My solution was to go on a RL hiking trip with my digital camera and take pictures of the natural landscape - fields, mountains, forests, etc.... I then uploaded the shot I liked best and attached it to a phantom mega-prim; a hollow box with one wall removed so that I could see my neighbor's forest to the east.

Over time, my neighbors changed and things got prettier (The casino's still there in garish purple and black, but the adfarm moved.) I took down the mega prim, but still have it handy for when guests come over. I can't have them accidentally stumbling into the PVP parcel and getting injured.

Those companies have no idea they're being advertised on SL.

The ad spammer signs up for traditional web-banner advertising, uploads the banner and gets standard click-through payments.

blocking adfarms never works. especialy with those stupid tall trees. the ads are simply made bigger by the ad farmers and raised to a hieght so you can see them across the whole sim.

my opinion is that you cant fight fire with fire. live and let live, we all dislike certain aspects of the game, the only way adfarms will be stopped is if LL ban them, and that will never happen as they generate income for LL.

and even if 16s were banned they would use 32s or even 64s if nessasary.

I placed a row of 10mtr high prims along the border of one of our plots, used a nice treeline texture to make it look like a forest outlook on my side, the opposite sides I put a totally clear texture, so unless you are inside my plot, you dont see them at all. Only downside is the stains ppls leave when they fly into them and I have to get the Bug scraper out.

Which reminds me, I'd like to take this opportunity to say sorry to the newcomer who I trapped like a fly inside my skypod. I had textured the whole outer faces with totally clear and was about to fix the last wall section in place, when he suddenly flew inside and proceeded to bounce off the walls until I moved the wall section again, and he flew on his way. My biggest regret was that I didn't have my movie camera rolling at the time.

impose a fine, involving say 100l(ad farms) a day until they clean up thier act. if the get clever, and move the moneys, ban them from any land they may own until the do.