Make it more clear that when you report an avatar, you are reporting the avatar author and not the person wearing it
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Mimi
A lot of people are really confused on how to properly report avatars and avatar authors.
I was told to to report the person wearing the avatar, even if it's your friend. I was told that reporting an avatar, your friend is wearing, reports the avatar only, along with the author of that avatar.
I was told this won't harm your friend wearing it and not to report the author of the avatar because then they will never find out which avatar is reported specifically.
the report menu should be made more clear that we are reporting the avatar only and not the person using it
lots of times, we are world hopping and find an avatar that's bad in that world the only way to report this is by reporting my friend wearing it.
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Deantwo
Moving the "Report Avatar" button to the Avatar Details page would likely solve this specific issue. But we might need some easy way to navigate players to the menu so they know where/how to report it.
PS: More ways to open the avatar details page for a particular avatar might be useful in this case. Such as if the player that was wearing it just changed avatar, and you want to report the previous avatar they wore.
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xxx_red_xxx
What constitutes a "bad" avatar anyways? Loud noises? Annoying shaders? You can block these you know. And if you're reporting unoptimized avatars that's what the hide avatar button is for. Why would the "poor" badge even exist if those avatars weren't allowed?
Cleo Lakuru
xxx_red_xxx: I feel like its not for unoptimized avatars, but for avatars that could potentially harm someone in VR like when lots of flashing lights and camera warping screen-space shaders. Not everyone wants to block all shaders because a massive chunk of avatars will look gross or just bad without the intended shader. So a clear way to punish those who make troll avatars would be great. You can hit hide avatar, but if someone can be harmed by the flashing lights or disorienting camera they don't know that avatar does it until its too late and these avatars need to be reported.
xxx_red_xxx
Cleo Lakuru: haven't considered that, true point. There should be a button next to report user called report avatar and maybe if the avatar is reported enough in one world it forces the user to change to something else.
~Hira~
xxx_red_xxx: It could block the avatar, resulting in the player being left in the default blocked avatar model until they swap to a new one.
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dumbuz
xxx_red_xxx: What about NSFW avatars? Those are banned.
Kaugumme
dumbuz: yeah thats why we can see them every few days in public instances mk
Ophura
~Hira~:It could you said? No, it will! And also I don't think you know what you're talking about mate... Blocking someone's avatar means blocking all of the avatars they change into.