In second life many people are reluctant to imput their billing information and pay for lindens in order to purchase stuff. Many 'noobs' of second life look for ways to earn linden. And many of these methods including camping is not always honest about their pay rates in comparison to others.

Clubs, bars, events and public sims use camping as a traffic booster - but how can you tell your getting a fair deal? Most camping spots offer 1L$ in exchange for 5mins of standing/dancing/sitting down. But many sims are offering far less.
With two clicks of a button you can find camping in over 10 dozen sims. Many pay fairly well. But because of the second life traffic ranking (the way they order the results by visitor counts) sim owners have been lowering their rates but still getting the campers because of its search result location. Many of the sims who do this are also ATM survey affiliates. They get paid by large organisations in USD large ammounts of money for anyone who does a survey and give the participant sometimes as few as 10L$. And most of the time these do not pay out at all!
So how can you tell your getting a fair deal, for both you and the owner? Well the ideal camping rate is around 1L$ for 3-5mins. Anything more and the owner is loosing out, anything less and the camper is getting short changed.
My two cents - Camping should be fair for all. The Lindens need toresolve this issue before it becomes a big thing and their inendated with complaints from our future designers, coders, shoppers and owners of the metaverse.

This has been KrazyKizza, reporting for CNN iReport news in the metaverse.