Users who abuse multiple malicious avatars should recieve secondary bans.
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The extremely popular use (in Public instances) of 'crasher avatars', is under the grand assumption that:
"Once the crasher that I favorited is banned, I can switch to another one that is not banned and continue to disrupt game-play."
"I can upload a crasher avatar on an alternative account, then abuse it on my main account, then rinse and repeat, even if the alt banned."
VRChat prints are moderated under the philosophy that anyone who has favorited / saved someone else's print will receive a portion of the moderation the uploader does, so why not extend this logic to avatars under specific circumstances?
[Real-world cases]:
Please review the attached video for real-world example of users who have gone through several moderated crashers, but have not themselves been moderated.
Best case example is the output logs provided. 100+ users that switched into public Crasher avatar uploaded by Blackkv65 will/have not be/been punished when VRChat Moderation finally deems/deemed "chatgpt" malicious.
I have had my VRChat.exe crashed in (Public) instances by users ranking between Visitor to User who use avatars that frequently bypass conventional Trust Rank systems. This happens about once per hour in populated (50+ Public) instances from my experience.
[Justification]:
A widespread deterrent such as warning, limiting, or banning secondhand use means that bad actors are punished for simply using each-other's malicious avatars, this could degrade coordination and minimize bad actor behavior.
By attaching consequences to secondhand use and not just the uploader, violators could receive (e.g.) a three or seven day ban for each subsequent abuse of avatars, depending on intention.
This change would expand the scope of moderation to reach users who use content uploaded on an alternate account to then wear on their main account (to bypass moderation), alongside Visitor and New User ranks who don't upload content but use malicious content.
[Note]:
Please do excuse the usernames in the logs, two are VRChat output logs (where I was crashed by 'chatgpt'), one is from Events Protection Logger (listing the hundreds of times it has been used, yet, all of the listed users of the avatar will not be moderated in any way, shape, or form once it is removed).
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I believe this is a very important thing to take into consideration, especially since there seems to be a whole network of malicious people abusing the system.
I don't know much about crasher avatars myself, but it's true their effects impacted vrchat public lobbies quite a lot, along side rippers and general unpleasant users, generally giving public lobbies a very poor reputation, and seeing actions taken to properly disrupt malicious users would be a very well recieved.