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Gonna have to say I'm pretty disappointed in SL over this. Don't get me wrong, I'm against ad farms as much as anyone. My rental and land flipping business is of course massively affected by ad farms and they surely cost me 100s or 1000s of dollars a year.

One reason I'm disappointed is because they've totally missed the point. "Ad farms" is just a euphemism for land extortion and massive parcel cutting. An "ad farm" is a field of tiny parcels with a bunch of crap all over them. It doesn't have to have anything to do with ads.

The other reason I'm disappointed is that this problem would have been simple to solve using technological means. Instead they're going to have to hire people who are naturally going to make arbitrary and inconsistent decisions and everyone is going to Whhhaaaaaa about favouritism or whatever.

There's been a ton of suggestions for simple ways to solve this problem, here's some of my favourites:
Parcels under 256sqm can't have prims on
Parcels under 256sqm can't be sold to Anyone only to Specific Person

If they'd chosen either of those routes the problem would immediately be solved. People would accept it as the new norm since the computer is applying the rules evenly and fairly to absolutely everyone. Even if we'd be throwing away some legitimate uses for small parcels it would soon be considered the norm, like no-one questions why parcels can only be cut into multples of 16sqm, it's just the way it is and there's nothing you can do about it.