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I only just noticed the plots I *own* in a mainland sim now sport a Covenant (in the About Land properties). I'm fairly sure this is new:

By purchasing this land you agree to abide to the following terms, conditions, and policies below:

The mainland is a Second Life area in which Linden Lab is the estate owner and exercises elevated discretion regarding content and design. Special rules and policies apply to landowners and businesses on the mainland. The Mainland Policies are incorporated into Second Life’s Terms of Service. A violation of these Mainland Policies, therefore, is a violation of our Terms of Service, which may lead to termination of your account without further obligation on our part. The best way not to violate the rules is to know the rules, so please read these policies very carefully.

The term "land" here refers to virtual land: Second Life "land" or "mainland" is not real property—it refers to a limited license as described in the Terms of Service.
Linden Lab strives to maintain the enjoyment of the Second Life virtual world and protect the interests of residents. In that regard, Linden Lab ("Linden Lab," "Linden" or "we") reserves the right without obligation to make the following changes to any mainland parcel or region when we determine that such changes are necessary to comply with our policies and preserve your interests. You understand and agree that we may:
- Change any region’s maturity designation, and require adult content to relocate to the areas within Second Life designated for such content;
- Make changes in the parceling of land, including make available or release more land, enforce minimum parcel sizes, resell or otherwise alter abandoned parcels, and create or revise rules and policies on connecting or dividing regions or parcels of land;
- Alter mainland terrain, including the land’s height, texture of both resident-owned parcels and Linden-owned land, or alter residents’ ability to change mainland terrain qualities. That means we can’t guarantee the nature of the "view" you will have on your land, or what may be contiguous with your land;
- Change covenants and/or rules applicable to certain mainland areas such as zoning. For example, we may apply particular rules to limited areas including restricting types of content, styles or design of virtual items, or limiting the resale of land. "Protected Land" (land that Linden Lab operates and controls which is generally open to all residents) is not guaranteed to remain protected;
- Change a region’s name, including without limitation in cases where multiple regions have the same name, or where a region’s name violates our policies or any third party’s rights;
- Increase or reduce fees, impose new fees, or change the manner in which fees are charged;
- Impose resource limits, including restrictions on the types and number of avatars, prims and scripts;
- Reclaim land no longer supported or held by an account in good standing;
- Enforce or revise limits on types of permissible content, including without limitation our "ad farm" policy, below, and our Maturity Ratings.

Terms of Service:

Community Standards:

Maturity ratings:

In addition, the following important mainland policies apply to protect your uninterrupted enjoyment of your land:

Policy on "Ad Farms”:

Policy Prohibiting Land-Cutting:
In general residents are welcome to subdivide larger parcels of land that they occupy into smaller parcels. Subdivision is considered "land cutting" when a resident extensively subdivides land into smaller parcels for the purpose of further "renting" or "selling" those parcels — and it is not allowed. Other prohibited land cutting includes subdividing land in a manner that decreases the ability of other residents to enjoy their land, collaborate and/or exercise land-management controls, or in a way that constitutes harassment of another resident. Linden reserves the right to make parcel alterations as necessary to ensure residents’ enjoyment of Second Life. We want to keep Second Life beautiful too.

We therefore may, in our sole discretion, move any parcel of land that is smaller than or equal to 128 sqm where such land is interfering with the enjoyment of a significantly larger parcel of land or region.

Policy prohibiting the misuse of bots (scripted agents): Linden Lab Official:Scripted Agent Policy
 

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Apparently LL dropped this into the mainland covenant tab a few months back. I don't check on typically unchanging sections of my land properties on a regular basis...
 
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To the OP, those rules have always existed, they put them in the covenant so no one can claim ignorance.

As for cutting parcels, you are entitled to cut off a piece of land if its more than what you want. There is nothing in the rules to stop me from buying a roadside parcel, cutting off 16 sqm for my use and selling the rest.

One time I bought a small roadside parcel, probably about 128 sq m , cut off the 16 sqm piece I wanted, and listed the rest for sale for $1L. A land baron immediately showed up and said did you mean to list it for that price. I said yep, its yours.
He told me if I do any other deals like that to im him and he will take them.

He gets super cheep land, I dump unwanted tier.

Yes its true, I have networked ad parcels :oops:
 
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I'm don't quite get how ad parcels are the new facebook.

Its an interesting story about why I started picking up ad parcels, and an unexpected end. LL changed the rules regarding networked advertising just for me, I was honored. :LOL:
 

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I'm don't quite get how ad parcels are the new facebook.
Sorry, just a callback to the days when certain folk at Linden Lab, and a few known enthusiasts, wanted to shoehorn more of a social media environment (like Facebook) into Second Life.
 
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To the OP, those rules have always existed, they put them in the covenant so no one can claim ignorance.

As for cutting parcels, you are entitled to cut off a piece of land if its more than what you want. There is nothing in the rules to stop me from buying a roadside parcel, cutting off 16 sqm for my use and selling the rest.

One time I bought a small roadside parcel, probably about 128 sq m , cut off the 16 sqm piece I wanted, and listed the rest for sale for $1L. A land baron immediately showed up and said did you mean to list it for that price. I said yep, its yours.
He told me if I do any other deals like that to im him and he will take them.

He gets super cheep land, I dump unwanted tier.

Yes its true, I have networked ad parcels :oops:
You do know that you're still 1 AR away from losing those 16sqm parcels, right?
SL TOS 5(v) said:
Violate our Second Life Mainland Policies, each of which is incorporated into this Second Life Policy;
Linked Wiki said:
In general residents are welcome to subdivide larger parcels of land that they occupy into smaller parcels. Subdivision is considered "land cutting" when a resident extensively subdivides land into smaller parcels for the purpose of further "renting" or "selling" those parcels — and it is not allowed. Other prohibited land cutting includes subdividing land in a manner that decreases the ability of other residents to enjoy their land, collaborate and/or exercise land-management controls, or in a way that constitutes harassment of another resident. Linden reserves the right to make parcel alternations as necessary to ensure residents’ enjoyment of Second Life. We want to keep Second Life beautiful too.

We therefore may, in our sole discretion, move any parcel of land that is smaller than or equal to 128 sqm where such land is interfering with the enjoyment of a significantly larger parcel of land or region.
 

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I'm don't quite get how ad parcels are the new facebook.

Its an interesting story about why I started picking up ad parcels, and an unexpected end. LL changed the rules regarding networked advertising just for me, I was honored. :LOL:
The thing to do would be to put avatar tracking prims around the grid, and track users based on places they have been, then set the ad billboards to show appropriate ads based on whom it detects is nearby.

Make the tracker objects hidden in plain sight as little cookie meshes.
 

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The thing to do would be to put avatar tracking prims around the grid, and track users based on places they have been, then set the ad billboards to show appropriate ads based on whom it detects is nearby.

Make the tracker objects hidden in plain sight as little cookie meshes.
I can see how this all would work in principle, but I wonder if it would be very laggy to actually implement this in the SL spaghetti code. I don't think SL tracking scripts are anywhere near as efficient as google and meta can track your browsing history and such. I'm not saying they couldn't do this, just that I bet it would be a lot more bare bones than what Meta and Google can do.
 

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You do know that you're still 1 AR away from losing those 16sqm parcels, right?
Not really, it has never happened yet, and I've had ad parcels since 2019. The only thing that will cause me to lose those parcels are a change in the covenant banning building on 16 sqm parcels.
I've have said many times in response to people complaining about ad parcels, let LL ban all man made builds on parcels less than 128 sqm, that will solve the problem once and for all. There is an army of avis in SL ready to report TOS violations
 

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So Second Life has become the new Facebook, just like they've been dreaming of.
Nope, networked ad parcels were a thing in the early beginnings of SL and banned quite quickly then. Just lookup "Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong", which was the biggest and most infamous of these networks.

"Mr. Lee" aka Chrischun Fassbinder bought all over the mainland 16 m² parcels, on which he erected hideous networked tall ad towers, which were visually polluting every sim they were in. If neighbours were annoyed by it, they had back then two possibilities: move somewhere else, or pay Mr. Lee's way too overpriced price for acquiring the 16m² lot, which usually begin at 100K L$.

Also since he tended to put camping chairs out on his venues traffic was always quite high. He was one of the main reasons ad networks were banned on the mainland.



Old thread about it: Second Life Forums Archive - Mr Lee's Greater Hong Kong 16 sq.m.'s Empire - page 1
 

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To me, advertising parcels add to the reality and immersion of second life. I don't freak out driving down the highway in RL when I see a billboard, I couldn't care less in SL either.
Now, wind turbines on the other hand.....