Web/Marketplace Features

[COOL IDEA] Stop Selling Features, Sell the Benefits! 🚀 Linden Lab is doing it wrong. They sell boring features instead of juicy benefits. Premium gives you a "free" 2,048 sqm limit, but the second you want a bigger plot (like my 8,704 sqm chunk), that perk vanishes and you get hit with full tier fees. Boo! Let's make land ownership fun, addictive, and profitable. YAY! [🔥 IDEA 1] The Premium Land Credit The Feature: "You get 2,048 sqm free." The Benefit: It becomes a permanent discount on any size land. Own an 8,704 sqm plot? Knock 2,048 sqm off the bill and only pay for the remaining 6,656 sqm. Instant monthly savings! The Retention Bonus: Because this credit applies everywhere, people are way less likely to abandon their small parcels or aggressively downsize their lots just to force themselves into a rigid, lower tier bracket. They keep what they love and keep paying! YAY, no more small abandoned plots of mainland all over that Linden does not know what to do with and auctions can't sell! [💰 IDEA 2] Per-Parcel "Tier Boosters" (The Flipper Button) The Feature: A "$5.99/mo Booster Pack" button on your dashboard for any individual lot. The Benefit: Landlords and flippers don't need 50 annoying alt accounts anymore. Own 50 lots? Click the button on a plot, pay the tiny fee, and instantly slash that specific lot's tier cost. Every time a flipper buys land, they click the button and say "YAY, more profit!" [📊 THE REAL TALK] Why Linden Lab Needs This Now Second Life concurrency is stuck floating between 40k and 44k users. Why? Because the "small guy" landowners and flippers are tired of getting squeezed by rigid brackets, so they bail out and leave plots abandoned. By giving players flexible savings, they won't feel forced to panic-sell or dump small parcels just to stay under a tier limit. No more ugly, abandoned eyesores littering the grid that just sit there forever because even the auctions can't get rid of them! Treat your players like business partners! When people feel appreciated, they stay on the grid, buy more Mainland, and spend tons of L$. Turn land management into a fun game with booster packs, stop the bailouts, and let's all make some money!

The Feature:Linden Lab should update its billing system so a single land coordinate never generates two simultaneous Land Use Fees. When a parcel is sold mid-cycle, the seller's tier obligation should immediately reduce pro-rata. The system should dynamically divide billing responsibility based on the exact days owned. Risk Mitigation & Proposed Policy FixesWhy This Protects Linden Lab (Risk Mitigation):Eliminating double-billing removes the risk of users filing anonymous complaints with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Proactively fixing this eliminates potential regulatory complications, builds user goodwill, and protects corporate revenue. Proactively fixing this system eliminates potential regulatory complications and reduces legal doctrine known as Unconscionability. Proposed Policy Fixes:TOS Update: "If a Virtual Land license is transferred, Land Use Fees shall be pro-rated daily. The seller's tier obligation ends immediately upon transfer." Billing Policy Update: "Your monthly Land Use Fee is calculated based on net daily ownership. Sold square footage is immediately deducted from your billing tier calculations." Legal Disclaimer:The commentary, strategies, and proposals above represent my own personal thoughts, observations, and opinions as a platform user. This concept is intended solely as design feedback for Linden Lab and does not constitute legal, financial, or professional business advice for Linden Lab or any individual resident. The author assumes no liability or legal responsibility for how this information is used, interpreted, or implemented. (Note: I use assistive AI tools for formatting and spell-check due to a reading and spelling disability. The strategies are entirely my own.) I understand Ai make it sound boring or lack personality but thats the cost that helps me present my ideas and works with my Autism.

Uploading images to listings in the Second Life Marketplace is currently unnecessarily slow and repetitive. Right now, the workflow is: Click upload Select 1 image Upload Repeat again for every single image For merchants managing many listings with multiple product images each, this becomes extremely time-consuming. Requested improvement: Allow selecting and uploading multiple images at once in a single action. Example: Click “Add Images” Select multiple files at once Upload all selected images together Simple modern multi-file upload support would massively improve workflow efficiency for Marketplace merchants.

I would like to have an option that prevents display of one time items (like breedable food), items that can no longer be redelivered because the merchant stopped using Casper or is gone, and the many demos that have been sitting there since 2016.

Please add a required bool while creating a Marketplace listing that asks the creator to disclose if AI generative tools were used in part/all of the products creation. Add this bool to the 'Do Not Show' section of the Marketplace search filter. Allow listings to be reported if they do not honestly disclose this. ---- For the health of the market we need the use of AI tools to be disclosed by creators. I would prefer personally that no AI generation be supported. I understand that tolorance of it is an effort to avoid censorships slippery slope, and is complicated by the sheer variation of AI tools that currently exist. But regardless of opinions or complications, it's existance cannot be ignored. So lets focus on what can be done, by giving some power of choice to the consumer instead. Users should be provided a way to choose products with or without AI generation while shopping, and naturally creators who choose not to disclose or to lie should face the same reportability and moderation as any other creator that would choose to lie while listing. The moderation half of this should not necessarily focus on trying to prove the use of AI gen tools, it doesn't actually need to. Creators who have done the work to provide support and actually prepare the AI generated content for its use in SL are unlikely to warrent being reported, and should not need to lie about the useage anyway. It is products that blatantly lack support, have egregious LOD & LI values that would be inclined to lie, and would want to be reported by users, this is the same for ANY product currently listed. If you buy it, and you don't get what was described, it should be reportable, the same goes for AI generated products, AI generated should not get a pass because you have to 'prove' something first, when the fact remains that you didn't get what thought you bought. So do not focus on "did you use a tool?" focus on "can you fix & support the product?" If it can't be supported, then disclose it was made via AI generation and move on. This is a similar complication to full perm and gacha resales, but also ripped models, copybot etc, in they will all lack support due to not being made directly by the creator of the listing. There is a big difference between fullperm & gacha resale vs ripping & botting, and that difference is honest disclosure.

Auction system uses visa instead of Lindens because to many users have to import lindens and lose profits doing so.

Let's invent a label - something simple, like "GenAI was used in whole or part in this object's manufacture" and then /require/ creators/vendors to label all of their relevant sales items with it. Let this label also be a tag or flag as part of an object's or sales vendor's properties, so that Residents don't have to struggle to know if an object is GenAI-"containing." Let this also be a tag or flag on the MP and in any other searchable interface where it makes sense to exist, so that Residents may include or exclude GenAI items in their search results. GenAI is not going anywhere. The ethics of its use are a separate matter. But Residents have a right to be informed of the tool's use in the creation of their purchased items, just as we have a right to know whether a food IRL has been genetically modified. Let Residents be advised of the use of GenAI to create purchasable goods, and thereby purchase according to their own preference. Please disregard, and accept my apology, if this issue has already been discussed/addressed. Thank you.

So going into this, I want to disclaim that I myself am not against AI. I personally have used it before, and will do so in the future. A specific chat AI helps me regularly with solving problems. However, I am against people intentionally misleading people about content, and polluting search results with content made in mere seconds, and find it no different than spam. If I made something that randomly generated randomly colored squares on a white canvas, and listed it a dozen or so times, it'd be seen as spam. Additionally, this issue was brought up in the SL Discord marketplace chat. I've moved it here so that it can get more recognition and visibility to LL. Personally, I believe that a policy worded like so would benefit everyone in the long run (canny has messed up some formatting here, so it looks like it has no line breaks, these have been substituted with "---" for readability) Content that is the sole generation of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or otherwise Generative Content, except in the cases where the generator was written for the sole purpose of generating a specific element, may not be listed on the Marketplace as-is or as the focal point of the content that is listed. --- AI images must never be used to generate listing images, and must be presented as the content appears in SL. Overlays, such as permission information, price, branding labels, or sales labels, are permitted as much so as they do not mis-represent the content that is being advertised. --- Examples of forbidden listings: * In singular or collection, AI generated content as a texture, image, mesh, sound or other type of asset, as the sole content being listed. * A AI generated image in a picture frame. * A museum prefab filled with AI generated images as a "ready to go" model. * A object that plays randomly generated AI voice clips. * Attempting to pass off or mislead people that AI generated content as original, hand crafted content. * A listing which shows a AI enhanced product preview. --- Examples of allowed listings: * A house that has a AI generated poster in it, where the poster is not the selling point of the house. * A museum model that has some AI generated images, or is focused on the topic of AI generated content. * A NPC, that among other features, plays AI generated voice clips. * A model that has AI generated textures, where the model is not AI generated. --- Listings that make use of 50% or more in it's creation must be clearly labeled as using AI generation or assistance in the listing description. Interpretation of what counts as "50% or more is" left solely to Linden Lab. Listings that use AI but under the 50% threshold are recommended, but not required, to disclose that AI is used in some capacity. In summary, it forbids listing of content on the marketplace, free or for sale, that is entirely AI generated, requires disclosure of AI generated content when AI does a majority of the work, and guards against some loopholes. This probably (as in, very likely. I feel this is implied, but just in case) isn't needed, but: Because this will probably get passed by the lawyers, I hereby grant all permission to Linden Lab to use or transform the above work in any way, without attribution or compensation. Linden Lab has the opportunity to deal with this now before it gets too out of control. Only a handful of residents would be in violation of this policy. This also only applies to marketplace stuff, not in-world content.

Listings of available Linden Homes could offer the ability to filter for a given parcel size or theme, or both. This would reduce the users' workload to discover if the parcel they want is available, and would reduce load on the web server since users could find the information they want by loading just one web pages instead of paging through three. For instance, if Joe is only interested in a 2048 Copperfield (a popular notion right now), he won't be paging back and forth among a bazillion other listings to find out if one is available.

EEP are a important part of the SL experience now. Could we get a category for them under Home and Garden or some other place? Right now they are all over the place and more difficult to find than they should or need be.