I will say that the pro-ad farm protesters interviewed in this (comparatively well-written) article are full of shit. They’re not a victim of LL wanting to squash competition with their search functions and paid ads because most people (as the comments show) don’t look to ad farms as a way to find products. We all hate them because they’re ugly and retarded. They are 3d pop up ads that we can’t find the “x” button on to make them go away.

They’re not a victim of LL wanting to keep land prices low. All LL needs to do to fix that is add more land or “print” more L$ and just buy those plots off you fools and put them back up for auction once they had enough 16m2 plots to put together at least 512m’s worth of land. Since L$ isn’t real and actually only has the value LL gives it this would be no big deal to them.

What they are a victim of is LL’s enabling. If LL had used some foresight they would definitely have seen this coming and would have put together simple zoning rules that would have made this a non-issue long before I ever joined. Then they wouldn’t have gotten into this routine and wouldn’t have helped make the mainland as ugly and tacky as it is today.

I have no problem with advertising and would welcome realistic billboards along the roads or on top of buildings with regulation just like we have IRL today.

Unfortunately people have cried to LL to have them save us from ourselves and what we get instead is more “broadly offensive” rules that will most definitely be executed with a retarded, heavy hand if not outwright abused. Good job, Prok! (she takes credit for this silly policy on her funny little blog).

A more simple and easier to enact fix to this problem is visual muting of objects. When you mute objects they’d not only stop interracting with you but they also disappear. You’d still be able to run into them but otherwise they aren’t there.

Another good function would be to set it up so the owner of the object being visually muted would be notified whenever someone mutes it. You’d also be able to see a count of how many residents have muted this object. This will let these assholes know how ineffective their “ad network” is.

It could have been as simple as that. No extra influx of ARs to ignore from Prok and others and no wasted employee time going to each site reported to determine what the deal actually is. Instead we get a dumb policy that will be enforced and potentially abused for a few months then will be forgotten.

I’d almost prefer the ad tards!

Get land on an estate, and get to know your landlord.

Problems solved.

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/2196/snapshot001tc6.jpg is a typical example of an advertisement board… it used to be much smaller until just before the announcement, then it massively increased in size, as half the plot was sold off.

Take a deep fried fuck off the mortal coil please. people like you not only waste bandwidth, but precious air and resources.

If the whole woodbury university thing is guilty of anything, it’s probably them doing subtle things to piss you off, and laughing at you as you go apeshit because you take it all seriously. The rest of us sure are laughing at you. You pathetic sack of shit.

On another note: I find your SL land preserve signs highly annoying and ruin the view (isnt the point of preserving land keeping it clutter free?) your signs are just another thing for me to load. one more thing that attributes to lag, one more thing that makes it slower to load.

LL don’t care about it’s customers interests as long as they are making expected revenues.

>Then suddenly, ad farms are declared illegal.

Bingo. They only understand force, and when they are hurt in the pocket-book. And even then, it can take them 2 years to have this epiphany.