amymist

Thanks for the adice, everyone! Blender is definitly what I would end up using, since it's what I'm most familar with. Also, the suggestion to mix-and-match avatar parts is a good one. I think the head I want is one I'll prbably have to do myself, but I've gone ahead and picked up Orange Nova's Bifrost Bunny, and I'll see if I can make a new texture+head for it. Starting with a smallert project also sounds very reasonable! I'm not sure how the difficulty of these things scales, though- would making a clothing item be easy enough, or should I start with something static, like a piece of decor?

I know, I know. It's been asked and answered a million times. I have a character (my own character, to be clear), that I'd like my SL avatar to look like. I know a little bit about modeling and texturing, but I have't the faintest idea how to apply any of that to SL. I used to have a tutorial on YouTube bookmarked, but when I went to check, it had been made private.

My best guess is that LL figures that they appear as fast as they could possibly be cleared out- controling ads on the boards could make a full time job just by itself. So they just leave them alone. It's not likely that the people posting these ads are going to listen to pleas to stop; these ads are free for them to post, and the odds that someone actually will respond to the ad outweigh any chance that the poster will suffer from any negative drawbacks.