With the raise of AI there's a growing issue that's hard to go unnoticed - many worlds that use AI image generation (but not just them) for their thumbnails, often mislead their users about their actual content (with the focus on quality) of the world. As a world explorer the problem is impossible to ignore at this point and increasingly annoying. I'm not talking about having to perfectly represent or show the exact photo of the content of the world in the thumbnail - a stylized or somewhat responsibly reimagined representation is ok - but the thumbnails should not mislead you into believing that this is what you will get that would leave you disappointed. I'm talking thumbnails that make you believe that it's an actual in-world photo e.g. showing you a breathtaking high detailed beach but upon enter it's a sand and water planes with low poly palms.

The obvious issue is defining where the line is and the pure subjectivity of it. With moderation it'd be easy to go overboard and severely limit the freedom of world thumbnails and it would also greatly increase the work for the T&S team. There's a certain creativity with the relationship between the world page and the actual world. The obvious cases where someone is consciously and maliciously misleading you about the world's content or outright trolling you should be moderated tho.

Best idea would be to offload this judgement to the users e.g. in the form of already suggested world voting. A world that gives you high hopes but leaves you disappointed would be represented by the community vote.

Right now I feel like these "trap" worlds especially gain traction because once they pass a certain threshold they will end up in the "New & Noteworthy" tab and will pretty much get stuck there and have their "baitness" amplified even more. The Worlds tab algorithms are just something to consider too in the process of tackling this issue somehow.

Another idea would be to allow multiple photos of the world and e.g. have the game automatically take an extra photo of the world or allow the author to replace with one that MUST be originating from within the world.

This is not exactly a specific feature request, nor duplication of the already existing "Add world voting" tickets, but casting limelight to the - I believe - increasingly visible problem that affects the quality of the platform and the joy of world exploration.