Misuse Of Events Search

Okay, the events search in sl. Seems to me there is a whole lot of misuse of advertising events. I thought the purpose of this page was to list one time events such as live music, a club event, a personal yard sale, a grand opening or a product launch. That's not what it seems to be used for. Oh those things are listed, but it seems a host of businesses are using events as a classified ad and not paying to run ads.

Here's what the lindens say about commercial listings in the events search:

The 'Commercial' category was created for the purpose of grand openings, demonstrations, product launches etc. Each of these types of events should have a clear beginning and end time attached. Otherwise, they belong in the Second Life Classifieds, not the Events calendar. Posting events that are simply advertisements will not be acceptable.

Not acceptable? Well I can find a whole slew of them. Stores advertising sales (not product launches), and permanent (?) yard sales which are simply businesses selling second hand products. I used the events search everyday and some of the things I saw today are:

1. Two for one sale on shoes
2. A giant land sale
3. Most items 10L
4. Cheap apartments
5. 50% off sexy clothes

Now to me, those are not listed according to what the lindens say should be. These types of events are simply sales and should be in the classifieds, and paid for. These businesses are skirting the rules and using events as a free classified ad. I've used events numerous times, but for the grand opening of my stores and for live musicians at my club. Any sales or promotions that I have are put in classified ads, sent via notice to group members and placed in billboards.

Now the fact that businesses use the events as classifieds is bad enough. What's worse is that the lindens do not seem to be stopping it. It doesn't even look like they scan events, because some are fairly obvious. Some of the posts have been running for months and months. To say that posts that are simply advertisments is not acceptable is fine, but if you don't enforce it, it continues. It's time the lindens act upon what they say and stop advertisements in the events search.

Ciao For Now
Jenny