[1865] Avatars you've uploaded which have been forcefully filtered by Content Gating may incentivize creators to remove content warnings for usability/discoverability | Voters

[1865] Avatars you've uploaded which have been forcefully filtered by Content Gating may incentivize creators to remove content warnings for usability/discoverability

WubTheCaptain

When your Uploaded avatars are filtered by Content Gating, these become unlisted from the "Uploaded" tab, the VRChat Home avatars list, and the Content Manager in the VRChat Avatars SDK. This may incorrectly incentivize creators to remove Content Warnings from avatars they've uploaded themself for usability reasons, to switch into those avatars more easily - unless you are Verified 18+ and can disable Gating.

The issue comes from stifling creators who are

not

Verified 18+ (but may be older than 18 years old), have uploaded some of their avatars with "Sexually Suggestive" content warnings, and want to switch into those "Sexually Suggestive" avatars themselves. Functionally switching into these filtered self-uploaded/private avatars is plausible, but these avatars may become forcefully unlisted by Content Gating (per VRChat's blog post) and are only accessible directly by a known URL/avatar ID, from Recently Used, or from Favorite Avatars. This hurts discoverability and may incentivize these stifling creators to remove Content Warnings in order to switch into these avatars in app without obstacles, with the intent to avoid going through an Age Assurance process and the plausible associated costs incurred to the creator (e.g. a month of VRC+ to become age assured).

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Note: I'm Verified 18+ btw.

2 days ago

WubTheCaptain

The alternative for stifling creators is to use up Favorite Avatar slots for avatars they've uploaded with forced gating (Sexually Suggestive), which works but is not ideal either and creates unnecessary barriers for discoverability (especially with only 50 favorite avatar slots for users without VRC+).

WubTheCaptain

Expected result: Show the filtered avatars in the "Uploaded" tab, on the website and in the VRChat Avatars SDK with black-yellow stripes too, perhaps with a checkbox to confirm "show filtered". These uploaded avatars can be switched into. Gating is applied to avatars uploaded/used by others as appropriate.
Actual result: Filtered avatars are not seen in Uploaded, VRChat Home and Content Manager, but are are seen in Recently Used and Favorite Avatars. These uploaded avatars can be switched into. Gating is applied to avatars uploaded/used by others as appropriate.
This expected result / proposed change doesn't hurt creator discoverability while it incentivizes keeping content tagged with warnings appropriately to reduce caused harm and subsequent moderation action.

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