Personal Avatar Blacklist
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HardLight670
This feature would allow players to maintain a personal blacklist of avatars they do not wish to see in VRChat. Blacklisted avatars would be filtered and replaced with an unobtrusive avatar for the local player only.
Notes:
- The blacklist would only affect what the local player sees. No other players would be affected.
- It may be beneficial to allow the player to also optionally auto-mute or auto-block avatars on their blacklist.
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This was added in Release 2022.2.2p3 🥳 (30 August 2022)
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Blocking Specific Avatars
Gondola
With the introduction of the avatar cloning system comes an increased risk of exploitation through the easy spreading of malicious avatars, if a string of people or a directed group clone a malicious avatar with the intent of crashing/annoying then the obvious solution would be to give players the ability to block specific avatars/avatar ids.
This kind of malicious situation could be prevented with the added benefit of removing the tedious interaction of having to constantly unblock/block the avatar visibility of a friend even if only one of this said friend's avatars is poorly optimized.
Joker is punk
Noe this is In Progress if I understand correctly
Flame Soulis
...Why isn't this a thing?
Just block by content ID. Done.
if(blocked_IDs.indexOf(AvatarID) != -1) {AvatarBLocked=true;}
You're welcome.
Dr Ocelot
Flame Soulis: [CS1061] 'string[]' does not contain a definition for 'indexOf' and no accessible extension method 'indexOf' accepting a first argument of type 'string[]' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference, or do you just not know how to program in C#?)
oops, looks like this doesn't work after all! oh well, maybe you'll get 'em next time!
Flame Soulis
Dr Ocelot: Lists?
Also, nice to see someone bitching about pseudo code, but whatever.
Lucifer MStar
Bump - I would like to block individual avatars which are notorious of sounds, high poly count etc..
Shaun
I would really like this, I always block tiny/huge avatars when I play murder and it's annoying to have to keep unblocking and reblocking people to find out if they've changed their avatar yet. I don't
want
to be surrounded by grey robots all the time!xxx_red_xxx
Shaun: now the robots scale to the size of the original avatar so fun
V•ᴥ•V
Don’t be that guy and just accept the fact that being able to hiding some annoying and loud meme avatars is a good idea.
It’s easier than hiding and showing a friend constantly.
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EvolvedAnt
Blocking avatar ID's does not solve anything. Users uploading malicious avatars will switch to releasing multiple avatars that are exactly the same except have different avatar ID's. They can even release worlds with 100's of pedestals with the same avatar with different ID's.
It's not as simple as blocking avatar id's, there are countless ways around that.
Kareeda
EvolvedAnt: Even if there are countless ways around it doesn't mean it being implemented is bad. For example a friend may use an avatar sometimes that I don't want to see but I don't want to out right hide them at all times only when they use that avatar. Also I've been in public before where one person would pull out an offense or nude avatar and then new players would start cloning it cause it was funny. (Naked man playing goofy music doing backflips) If I could just block that ID I'd not have to hide the whole lobby. i could have solved that issue was faster. Plus I have a massive Avatar world and never have changed any of the IDs. If someone doesn't want to see certain avatars of mine with this system they could block it. Lastly due to VRChat no longer enforcing avatar worlds to have avatars meet a specific performance standard old worlds with extremely poorly made and low performance avatars are back and I'd like to just block them all so I never have to see them.
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EvolvedAnt
Kareeda: Those are some strong points, however they deal mostly with side benefits, and not with original intent and crux of the original argument to include this as a feature. For the original arguments, of "This kind of malicious situation could be prevented", my point still stands that this would not solve the underlying issue, even if there are use-cases like you mentioned where it would be useful.
Chdata
EvolvedAnt: Blocking by avatar author would be a better blanket sweep. And it's not like blocking by ID is so useless that it's not worth providing as an option, even if neither of these can fully "stop" malicious avatars.
xxx_red_xxx
Kareeda: Got it, you hide everyone's avatar unless its got the stupid green star, no cool effects, can run on quest, has no audio sources or particle systems, and in general is completely unfun. Now I know to block you if I see you. You're part of the reason this game isn't much fun anymore.
Chdata
YES PLEASE
Lightning Test
I too wish to hide avatars by ID!
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