{"id":168,"date":"2010-12-02T18:19:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T18:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2014-01-12T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T13:19:08","slug":"what-are-linden-lab-playing-at-with-classifieds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"What Are Linden Lab playing at with Classifieds?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if it’s my mood that has added to my annoyance with the latest blog and emails about classifieds, I have the cough from hell and I’m currently doing an extremely impressive impression of Grumpy, but the events have certainly rubbed me up the wrong way. First of all I awake from a nap to check my emails and find emails from LL telling me how they’ve nerfed inworld classifieds, and of course they go with the tired old BS of telling me this nerf is an imporvement and then I read Nelson’s blog post<\/a> about a new classified beta, this right after reading how they are nerfing inworld classifieds.<\/p>\n

They should be treated as separate issues, although one can’t help but wonder if the deliberate and destructive nature of LL’s approach to inworld classifieds is to encourage the big players to move to the new system as well as giving them advantages inworld that their classifieds wouldn’t previously have had, again we seem to be back to LL being hostile to medium to small business owners, I have no idea why they do this. <\/p>\n

So the email, for those who haven’t seen it:<\/p>\n

Two Important Changes to SL Classified Advertising<\/p>\n

Dear SL Advertiser,<\/p>\n

We wanted to ensure that you are aware of two big changes to the Classified ad program.<\/p>\n

Maturity Changes: Previously, advertisers declared the maturity level of their ads. However, to prepare for teens coming to the main grid, we will be using the maturity system used for Search that is based on two factors:<\/p>\n