Feature Requests

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Age Verification/NSFW Content
I'm going to get straight to the point on this one. On a platform like VRChat, NSFW stuff is going to happen, no matter what the terms says and no matter what is/isn't allowed. People are going to do this no matter what you do and in fact it already does happen... all the time. I feel the best solution to the problem is some sort of age verification as well as usage of the NSFW tags in the SDK for avatars and worlds. The use of the age verification system would let users set their birth date or just their age and would automatically filter out content with any NSFW tags along with the option to hide birth dates and ages either from everyone or people that aren't friends or both. The report system would be a way to get around issues with this as well as users showing proof with ID so that false reports do not occur. Plus with this system, legally the situations players find themselves in would fall upon the players themselves rather than VRChat, especially if you make a disclaimer specifying this in the terms. As it currently stands, potentially the legal issues fall on VRChat for not enforcing the terms enough to filter out NSFW content and this would resolve the issue entirely. It's only a matter of time before something happens in-game and VRChat gets sued. I'm no lawyer, but it doesn't take one to know stuff like this happens. As for NSFW Content Filters, this would also solve the issue for adults that do not want to see certain NSFW content. Again, making it legally their responsibility rather than VRChat's responsibility. Making use of the check boxes in the SDK would make it much easier for this filter to work. There's honestly no good reason for this to not already be a feature in VRChat beyond lack of time as I know it does take time to implement something like this and some effort on the team's part, but this would solve a lot of potential future issues and I'd rather not see this platform in the same position as the Titanic, thinking everything is going great and then one thing happens and it's all over. Edit: I'd like to also add at this point that most VRChat users, or at least from what I've seen, actually don't care if NSFW stuff is in VRChat. Most people generally have a "keep it in the bedroom" sort of mentality where they're fine with it if it's not in their face. I've in fact seen many NSFW avatars in public worlds as well as NSFW discussions and other content in public worlds and people just don't care because the users, avatars, and worlds stay in VRChat without being reported or anything. There is literally no way around NSFW content and this is the only solution that makes sense: Just allow it and use content filters and age verification.
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VRChat Groups Features
We are all very excited about the upcoming Groups system in VRChat but the finer details of what will be possible with the group system remain nebulous. The roleplaying communities of VRChat have been keeping close watch on Tupper’s original groups post as we believe we will be the largest and most in depth users of this system when it comes out. Our biggest fear right now is that this will just become a way to organise your friends list, therefore we would like to put forth some suggested features for the groups system. Requiring group membership to use an avatar. Much like how making an avatar private locks it to the creator we would like the ability to require group membership in order to use or favorite an avatar. This is the critical #1 feature that we need to have as currently there are a number of ways our community avatars can leak out and this has resulted in people outside of our communities intentionally using our image to defame us. Semi-private Group worlds Currently worlds can be public so anyone can join them, or private so you have to have an invite link from the world creator to start an instance. Having the ability to make a world public for only your group would circumvent the need to spread links around through external applications for private worlds, as well as prevent the publishing of a bunch of worlds that have no use to the general VRChat public. The ability to create Roles/Tags/Ranks. So far we know there will be “Leaders/Officers/Moderators/Etc” however there is no way for vrchat to know how many different roles or what permissions that a particular group is going to need. The ability to create and assign new roles via the vrchat website would allow the groups to segment themselves however they need to. Obviously there would need to be a limit to how many roles can be created as VRChat can only store so much data per player but we do need more than just administrative roles. Expose Group membership and roles to Udon. We cannot anticipate all of the different ways various groups will want to use their different roles and giving us the ability to create new roles would further compound this problem. Allowing udon to see if you are in a group and what your rank in that group is would make it possible for the world creators of these groups to specify who has access to what so we wouldn't have to rely on VRChat to make all the tools for us. Allow players to join multiple groups. As stated in Tuppers original post, players should have the ability to join multiple groups. People have many different interests and in the roleplay communities there is a ton of overlap between groups. It would be nice if Udon could pull a list of the groups the local player is in so we can search through them and confirm membership, otherwise just having the group the player is currently “representing” would work well enough. We understand that this is quite the wishlist and not everything can be done, but hopefully we have been able to help guide the groups feature to be the best that it can possibly be. Signed, Loli Police Dept, The Mortisian Syndicate, SCP Foundation of VRChat, United Hollow Republic.
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