Proper World Creator Mod Tools
CabaBear
With 2026.4.2, public instances now assign their creator as the instance owner, giving them moderation powers. I agree public instances need more moderation, but this hands those powers to whoever clicked “create instance,” while world creators and their moderation teams still can’t properly protect the worlds they built. Meanwhile, groups have more authority in our worlds than we do.
As a creator of two popular worlds with a moderation team, here’s what we run into:
- Group instances run by problematic users, or groups that have banned us, leave us unable to keep our own worlds safe.
- Bans don’t stick. An instance ban ends when the instance does, and even a direct kick only lasts 60 minutes before the same people come right back.
- Instance owners and world authors are now on the same moderation tier, so a random instance owner can kick the author or their moderators, just like group owners already can.
- The TOS allows creator-made moderation tools but prohibits blacklists and permanent bans, so those tools can’t keep repeat offenders out. Creators have been reprimanded for trying.
What I’m proposing:
- Persistent world-level bans set by the world author, applied to Public and Group Public instances of that world.
- Author-appointed moderators with moderation powers in every Public and Group Public instance of that world, assigned through the creator’s group or in Unity.
- A moderation tier above instance owners and group moderators for world authors and their appointed mods, so groups can’t kick or abuse their powers against the people making sure rules are enforced and the instance is safe.
- Udon access to these bans and moderator roles, so creators can build on them without needing external blacklists.
To prevent abuse, bans would only apply to Public and Group Public instances. Private, Friends, and Invite instances would stay accessible, so no one is locked out of a world entirely. Banned users could see that they’re banned and appeal to the world author, and VRChat could revoke these tools from creators who abuse them.
Safety is still the number one issue in public instances, and this change is a step in the wrong direction. Creators should already have these tools, or at least be allowed to use their own without being reprimanded under the TOS. Most creators have good intentions, and the ones who run these spaces every day are the most willing to stop predators and bad actors from moving freely between instances. It’s gone on too long with creators having no real power while groups have more control over our worlds than we do. Something needs to change. Give us the tools to do it properly.
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BRO why do the devs not think this through???
Hinsu Hellsing
Absolutely would die for this
arianwen27
It really is a pain that vrc allows people who upload a world, put effort into it and build a community, but then not be able to protect that community. There's no way to deal with bad people except box them for 1 instance. So anyone who intends to cause harm just hops to a new instance. There's also people who intentionally false ban every mod so they can cause harm without worry of being stopped.
People report this stuff to us and our only reply is to contact vrchat. We can't protect our own community because only vrchat staff have the ability to really stop someone. While vrc does ban people saying slurs and stuff usually within 24 hours (when given a clip), the seriously bad stuff that's not just explainable in a short clip goes unpunished or they make an alt.
Related, vrc will only ban an under age user if they verbally admit they are below 13. There's loads of times where someone sounds nowhere near 13 and will never verbally admit it. Vrc just says they are "investigating it" but nothing ever happens.
Having the ability to actually ban people from all forms of public instances on a world would be a giant boost to the safety of the platform. Yeah there is the chance of abuse, but there are already people vetted for the creator economy, those people would likely be trustable and have a community worth protecting. Some world creators actually want to improve the platform for their community, vrchat currently doesn't let them.
I also do feel that requiring a way to appeal is important. Any world owner/mods for a world over should be able to accept appeals, not everyone is perfect. Some people should be forgiven. Requiring video evidence of bans or an explanation written for the ban would also be helpful in giving the ban more weight and stopping abuse.
A lot of things are just "this person is going to be banned in a day or two, but until vrchat does that, they can just blast slurs in every instance" or "this is a complicated situation, everyone knows this person is super bad but vrchat isn't going to spend 30 minutes learning why and what's going on"
Giving world creators the ability to actually moderate their own worlds speeds up action and allows action too complicated for vrc themselves.