Spinwilly Saiman

Thank you... but, you only removed one of the objects, there were two and one still remains particle spamming. They were only about 100 meters apart and at about the same Z height. They are also on Governor Linden land (border). I filed seperate abuse reports for each object and know not to spam the AR system. Over several weeks, I filed a total of 3 (I think) AR's and finally gave up. If you could remove the other one at Sandstorm (251, 32, 225) it would be much appreciated.

Block owner does not work for customers who show up randomly to do business. They would have to find the offending object or be notified of the griefers name in a notecard when they arrive to go thru the steps to block the owner yada yada... so they just leave. The key word here is 'Customers'. I can easily turn of the offending stuff, but for customers or potential customers, it's an entirely different challenge and results in lost business no matter how you approach it.

Well, I've been a premium member for years, a landowner and have run many businesses.

So it's been 6 weeks now. Greifer particle spammers remain on adjacent parcels. Multiple abuse reports filed - properly of course. Parcel owners can not be contacted because they don't log in to SL anymore. Linden Labs will not do anything, nada, zilch. It impacts my business and my customers. - File abuse reports... check - Contact Land owners... check - Tell customers to set particle count to zero... check - many don't know how and/or don't want to be bothered by that. - Politely ask the greifer to remove objects... LOL, really, no. There is absolutely no way to have these spammers removed without LL's help. So I'm basically screwed?

Thanks for the responses. I have exhauseted all reasonable and appropriate avenenues. Contacting land owners is a lost cause as the subject line states, they are missing in action. Land owners, groups, members of groups who may be able to contact the owners, every possible angle you can imagine, very detailed, specific, to the point, IM's and Notecards. Zilch. 3 entire regions, basically crashed for weeks and nobody logs in. Amazing. My region is fine except for the spam. LL does nothing, a month goes by with multiple AR's. Zilch. I see now what so many have been complaining about. Through some experimentaion, I also see now how easy it is to get objects onto land without build permissions. LL could fix this with some policy changes but from what I gather from reading all the rants and witnessing the management of SL, my sense is that they are not in any position to do so. I guess they just run with a skeleton crew nowadays. The sad part is that the community of users have great ideas, and offer many good solutions to problems that could be implemented. It's too bad they can't somehow be empowered by LL to develop and implement some of the best solutions out there.

Maybe somone has some ideas or insight here. I run a business on numerous mainland parcels where griefing attacks with massive particle spammers are occuring on parcels nearby where the land owners allow everyone to build... yet autoreturn is enabled. Autoreturn is being defeated however by the fact that most of these objects are self replicating. I understand the quick and easy fix is to block the object or avatar, or set max particles to zero. Ok. But now try telling that to all of your unhappy customers. I have found multiple problems with trying to remedy this situation: 1. Abuse Reports - LL seems to have completely stopped responding to them. I can understand a day maybe two but some of these AR's have been unresolved for WEEKS. To be even more perplexing, some of these particle spammers have been placed on the parcel borders of Governor Linden Land. Does anybody know why LL is not resonding to, or resolving to AR's lately? 2. Land Owners - I see lots of parcels where land owners allow everyone to build. The only way to stop these types of griefing attacks it to uncheck the everyone box as autoreturn is rendered useless. The problem is in contacting these land owners. Many of them have sort of abandoned SL and never log in yet keep paying a yearly membership fee for their 512 plot I guess. Does anybody have any ideas on how to get a MIA land owner to change their parcel settings? Is there any way LL support would do this (I doubt it)? 3. Technical - Many of these particle spammers are placed dead center on parcel boundries where one allows everyone to build and one does not. I'm dealing with one now where none of the parcels allows everyone to build yet the objects are on the boundries with one of the parcels being GL land. Is there some LL bug that is being exploited here? Any insight or suggestions other than blocking, filing an AR or buying a private island would be appreciated. However my sense is that private islands are the only sure long term solution. If you buy an entire sim on the mainland, you can't stop adjacent sim griefers and these particle spammers send out garbage for several hundred meters in all directions.