For example: I would like the ability to offer FLY on my estate irreguardless of the settings a parcel owner may use. Or, I would like to offer Everyone Object Creation, one again irreguardless of the parcel owner's setting. Or I would like to enforce AutoReturn setting at 60 minutes, once again irreguardless of the parcel owner settings.

1. When you deed the land you relinquish all right to the renter. My argument on this was: That us owners still pay for it. But they just fell back on the TOS on renting land.

2. They said if you wanted any changes, you would just have to reclaim the land. To which I answered: Don't you think this would cause more tension between us and are renters. Since we can restrict push in this way, why not the other options. To which they said: "We'll look in to it".

So unless we get a lot of island owner support on this one, I am not sure how far it will go. But we can hope the Lindens listen to reason (^_).

They are made in the name of excessive security concerns and the belief that estate and continent masters have to override all their tenants'/buyers' local decisions about banning or building.

If a buyer violates the covenant, the land should be reclaimed. This is how it is down in Dreamland, for example, with more than 500 islands, and done very effectively. Red ban lines are not allowed to be put on permanently, and it is enforced through abuse reports to staff.

An region master can put a name into the ban list for that sim or the entire region, and there's no need, then to be chasing griefers from parcel to parcel and making sure they can't build.

Turning off third-party build is a huge nuisance, as the tenant has to remember to put the tag on all the time, and his guests can't rez anything even for 5 minutes before autoreturn.

If you don't have the resources for person review or staff review of ARs and the land itself to monitor violations, then don't undertake the management of so much land. Automating these overrides like this causes more problems than it solves by creating angry tenants and buyers who have to then queue up to try to undo the damage from global overrides.

And if all else fails, there's always the mainland. Unrestricted and free. Expanding at a rate of 8 sims per day, so I think there's plenty of it to go around.

Some comments :

1) Many island owners rent land instead of selling it.

2) Island owners don't want their tenants to be unhappy. Not only do most island owners make a good faith effort to do a good job, but it is bad for business to have unhappy customers. It is unfair and inaccurate to presume that island owners, especially the owners of themed community sims, do not care about their customers.

3) If you read the above proposal you will find that the majority of applications for this feature are NOT designed with security in mind. The primary application of disabling access lines, for example, is to make sims look prettier. The primary application of enforcing auto-return is to keep sims tidy. Auto-return does almost no good at all in stopping griefing because griefers can crash a sim long before it has a chance to kick in. The primary application of disabling "show in search places" for parcels is to enforce residential-only land zoning. This is something many residents want - there is great demand for residential-only land and this feature can help organize things to meet that demand.
Yes, there are some very useful security applications. But there are also very useful applications in a number of other categories.

4) Turning off build is not actually that much of a nuisance. I have a collection of 4 sims in the same area where build is disabled on every parcel. I can't remember the last time anyone complained about this. If guests of a tenant want to rez anything the tenant can just invite them into the group the land is deeded to. No problem.

5) If you don't like the tools, then the answer is simple : don't use them. Nobody is going to force you to enable these overrides on your own large chain of islands. Nobody is going to force tenants to only use the islands which have some overrides on. If you are so sure residents won't like these tools, then why not relax, let them be implemented, and then rejoice when all the customers of island owners who do use them leave and flock to your business?

6) Again, to reiterate this point : I have been requiring tenants on a collection of 4 of my islands to disable public build for months now. I cannot remember the last time I ever got a complaint! So long as sim owners are reasonable about what they override (and they have every reason to be, given their customers will leave if they become unreasonable), then customers are, in my experience, fine with it. My four sims have 100% occupancy, and some customers actually seek me out because they want a place to build where they know griefers won't be a problem.

If, after all this, you still don't like the idea of parcel settings being overridden by sim/estate settings, then fair enough. Not everyone will find them useful. Thing is, some of us will find them very useful, and I think they will positively contribute to SL as a whole. After all, those who want to use them would be able to, and those who don't like them could just live in areas where they aren't used. No problem.

A few points.

• You don't ever own land on private sims even to the limited extent that you own them on the Linden estate.

• You are already completely at the mercy of the sim owner. They sim can be sold out from under you (I've had that happen, and know others who've been there), the sim owner can reclaim the parcel, and you pretty much have no recourse.

• The only property rights you have on a private sim, if you're renting, are those the sim owner grants you. Why force a slow and manual and error-prone process, even one that's been made to work in some areas (but not others) through the efforts of a few large landowners (because they are able to work full time on their in-game property), instead of making those rights explicit in the sim settings?

• You wouldn't argue that "no copy" be implemented by allowing people to copy and then going to Linden Labs and asking that "excess" copies be destroyed, would you? Why is this different?

The argument about relinquishing rights to the renter is spurious: we already have the option to override many of these things, it's just half-implemented.

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The argument about the powers being to strong etc is silly ... if a user wants to buy on this island, these are the restrictions, fullstop. Else buy on a different island ... whats the problem?

Since they are responsible, private island owners and estate managers should have access to land parcel settings, either on a global basis as sugested in estate manager tools, either by direct access to 'about land' options.
I would prefer this last option, i also think it would be easier to implement.. all the gui is there already.
With this not only estate rules could be easier to 'enforce' but it also would be easier to help tenants, new to SL.

• Media URLs should be clearable (I had to reclaim a land to the sim owner because of a porno movie on a PG area ) but could be hidden to protect privacy.

To just take back the land is a action to agressive and distrubing for something that in most cases is just a tenant mistake or distraction.