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1. Giving land away with all objects on it: what is the best way to do it?

   @archangel969 I've checked it out to be able to give you the best suggestions. It's a beautiful place! Currently your land settings are perfect on almost all 6 parcels, with the exception of one in Dumont, for which you deserve a compliment! Most Mainland parcels are extremely unsafe, 5 of 6 of yours are perfectly safe! However, none of them are suitable for land ownership transfer. Since this is in Mainland regions, the best way to transfer the land to someone else is to get a tier contributor in the land group who keeps paying for the land, and probably in turn they will want to be the new owner, or at least a co-owner with you. The first problem is that you own all parcels personally, not through the land group. The land group you use for these parcels is apparently perfect, so the first thing you should is to read this: https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/group-owned-land-r32/#Contributing_land_allowance_and_deeding_land_to_a_group__f083e1 Once you have read the article and made sure only you have land management abilities in the land group, before you would proceed to deeding the parcels, you will have to set up all of your objects on all parcels properly. This means every single object will have to be set to this land group (currently many of your objects have other group tags). This is extremely important, otherwise the new owner (in fact, the group as the new owner) will NOT be able to use autoreturn on the parcels, which is a big problem as that makes them unsafe. Once you have made sure every single object you want to be preserved here is set to the land group (you can do this in bulk-edit by selecting multiple objects through Area Search), you can deed the parcels to your land group. Once they are group owned, look at About Land > Objects, and you should see every object is "set to group" which used to be "owned by parcel owner". "Owned by others" should be still 0. If this doesn't check out, you still have some objects without the land group tag. You'll have to find them and set the correct group on them in this case. https://prnt.sc/6YMeCXnjc5sm Autoreturn will typically reset to 0 when the ownership changes, so you likely won't have any of the objects returned even if the land group doesn't match, BUT you need to sort it out in order to be able to turn on autoreturn again. Even large, professional estates fail at this during ownership changes. This is critical. Once all 6 parcels are owned by the group and the objects are all showing as "set to group", you need to donate your land allowance to this group on the Land & L$ tab of the group profile in the "Your contribution" textbox, click Save, and then make sure the lines above it show that all your land size is covered by your contribution. As the last step, go over each parcel's settings and check if all permissions are how they used to be, and change them as needed, especially autoreturn settings. Once you're done with this, your parcels are ready for a new owner and once you found that new person to take care of your land, the ownership transfer can be done in two steps: 1: Invite the person to the land group, and if the actual ownership change is a requirement, add them to the Owner role of the group. 2: The new owner/contributor adds their own land tier contribution to the group and you can remove yours. If you find a very benevolent person who is willing to pay for all of this and doesn't want to take it from you, and you don't want to leave SL, you can remain a co-owner and still manage the land. However if you leave the land group or SL altogether or the new owner doesn't want you around as co-owner or manager, maintaining your objects, fixing them when needed, or repositioning them will be impossible, as Qie explained. If the land group won't be public though, and only trusted people are in it, you can enable the "group share" option on all objects under the group setting while editing the object, and then the new owner will be able to reposition them or change some settings (for example Phantom) if needed. Everyone else in the land group will be able to do this as well, though, so only do this if you can make sure this can't turn into a huge mess. If your plan is to leave SL or stop using this account, or you can otherwise trust the new landowner, you can give them permission to edit your objects (in Contacts > Friends), that way they will be able to do maintenance on your objects at the Dutch Estate. Just keep in mind, then this person will also be able to edit your objects anywhere else too, so only do this with someone you trust. This is not the only way to do this, but this is the only safe and reasonable way that usually works. Large businesses, rental estates, communities use this method and if the new owners and managers are good at it, nice places can be preserved for many years like this. Of course, replacing broken, outdated objects will be necessary over time, and the new owner might want to change things anyway, but it's worth trying this solution. Depending on how long you can or want to keep paying for this land, once you prepared it for the group owner transfer, you can take your time to look for a new owner.

2. SLRR Railway Map

   As a map appreciator, this is super cool

3. Copperfield Heights

   Loving my Sunnydale!! Finished the outside...

4. BonnieBots banned?

   This way they can do as little work as possible then say "See, we ban bots, you're lying when you say we don't."

5. BonnieBots banned?

   Right .. so don't ban the thousands of KNOWN bots gaming traffic, fake store bots, spam bots, hordes of land bots, secret data harvesting bots or tiny empires choking the water ways. Ban the single cohort of 8 who publish their data and their owner. Data that many in SL had come to depend on. No policy. No announcement. No explanation.