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Melodie Darwin

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  1. That would be my guess as well. Its also what makes land search in the 2.0 viewer so cumbersome to use. I switch to a 1.23 version viewer when looking at land so I don't have to wade past all of the sell to specific person lands. There is no need for everyone to see those.
  2. Wow Drongle, the work you put into drawing those maps is amazing. Kudos to the Linden who cleaned that up. I hate to add the but in that... Classic style ad farming is sprouting like weeds. There is no good that can come from LL auto selling anything under 112m. (Can something be done with the 112, 48 and 2 32m parcels still at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Skutter/89/85/109/ ?) There was an interview where Rodvik was asked about his view on a past policy change. His response was that it was before his time, so he really couldn't say anything on it. Likely, he would respond the same if asked about the ending of adfarming. As the autoselling of abandoned land has started under his leadership, this is what happens when land under 112m is released. I AR'd the one in the background which was gone within 30 min. But as I was one of far too many who fought this fight for way too long already, one AR a day is all I can stomach. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nangrim/121/6/83/' target="_self">
  3. Wow, its a bigger area than I realized. The 960m parcel next to it was rejoined from the same mess. Funny how there are also strategic pieces missing out of that one as well. If the autoselling abandoned land is supposed to make Mainland more appealing, its not working til this stops happening. (Hint for Lindens: resurrecting fighting against adfarmers will NOT make people want land again).
  4. The area around Buffalo Run/Silvercreek comes to mind. There are several hills in this area, which is green with a water view. The hill I used to have land on and really liked was Fellin Hill. The area is a bit of a mess and flattened out but its actually fairly steep. You might also look at some of the original sims that have the +/- 40m terraforming to get the height you'd like.
  5. There were quite a few people who went to look at this area. Unfortunately, microparcel collectors and a would be ad farmer had found it first. When the would be ad farmer came and placed his fourth spinning ad tower, I linked him to the policy on ads and talked about why ads on 16m parcels for 62.5L/m really are a bad thing. Those were not photos I posted in this thread as that would be calling someone out when he did remove the ads. I believe Persephone was right in an earlier post in that it appear the previous landholder had cut this up while abandoning it. The area is a weird mix of waffled land abandoned that we wiill likely see more of this occur in. It looks like the system sends all land abandoned by the same name in an area to sale at once. Unfortunately it does not have the ability to discern sizes or whether or not its cut and rejoined randomly. Seeing something like this happen after the years people spent fighting ad farms and landcutting left me with a sickening feeling. There were years spent by countless residents talking nicely and otherwise to LL about this. There were countless Linden hours spent making trades with micro parcel holders to get them to abandon their holdings. The result of all of that time had made leaps and bounds in improving Mainland. The policy of auto sellling land no matter the size or shape is quickly undoing that. There is now a jira written from this, as well as numerous ARs. The automated reselling of land is a good idea whose implementation is crashing and burning. There needs to be a minimum size allowed, and it still needs actual people to look and see if anything can be rejoined. How long should we wait before publicly documenting policy failures? The policies against ad farming and landcutting are in place. Should we wait til an automated LL process creates new ad farmers and microparcel holders so that we can again spend years begging LL to clean it up and enforce their own policies? Or should there be some work done on their side to fix this now? They already know what happens when its easy for scammers and ad farmers to move in.
  6. The new policy for automating the resale of abandoned land is resulting not in an improvement of Mainland. Instead, its returning Mainland to the days of spinning ad signs, and fractured land cuts that are ugly and unusable for anything. Worst of all, LL is violating its own policy against landcutting by putting these areas for sale without cleaning it up first creating a rinse and repeat of what makes Mainland ugly. This exceedingly large area is at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Skutter/149/117/75/
  7. You'll be missed!
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