Just don’t use any avatars that have those features in public. Period.
But I’ll let you decide.
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I don’t know if that’s the rule or not… And I wouldn’t want to worry about doing it on accident if I don’t have to worry.
Yes. Does not apply in this case. Before December, T&S had always been very good about responding to my tickets within 48hrs (except on weekends). This is apparently a recent change in the way they handle tickets.
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I also have a few tickets reporting people for nudity in public worlds (not age verified worlds) that have been stuck open for weeks. Not sure what’s going on. Seems like some are getting lost in limbo!
This only started happening the last month or two. They all have full details, screenshots, videos.
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Thank you for the clarification on needing the semantics of “If you join this group/this event, you may or may not encounter provocative activities or content, and if you join this group/event, you indicate consent to view these activities or content.” posted everywhere.
I will now post it everywhere.
Now, how do I get this disclaimer to you guys so that y’all know that there ARE malicious reports from my instances that are people being malicious with the reports, and not actual issues?
We do our best to handle actual instances in-group, through several layers of staff, and would absolutely love to have VRC step in if we are failing to take care of malice.
But when I am in a group instance and my avatar base comes with female presenting covered-by-a-shirt nipples, and someone is mad that I wouldn’t let them change the music at my event from “Katamari - All Vocal Songs” to “10 hours of silence occasionally broken up by dog clicker noises” and reports me, that I don’t get banned… again.
Again, thank you for the clarification, but can we have, like, future clarification BEFORE the ban waves, so we can take precautions to correct our inadvertently poor behavior, to which the punishment does not match the crime.
IE:
imagines a dev update in an alternative universe, Sept 2025
”Hey everyone! We’re going to start hammering down on accidental NSFW content that may happen through the imposter generating system! If you have any public avatars from 6 years ago that may have any NSFW content on it, even if it’s covered or not possible to be seen through a toggle, please consider making it private or removing the mesh/texture that is NSFW, as in the coming weeks, we will be taking action to ensure every public avatar is squeaky clean, inside and out. Sorry for the inconvenience, thank you for helping keep VRC safe!”
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Agreed. At this point, I’d even prefer a “we’re never going to release it, and here’s why” rather than a “soon™”
Also, something doesn’t have to be “done” for developers to provide progress updates on it. Literally any regular mention of Soba’s progress is all we’re asking for. Just any transparency whatsoever.
Any clues? Also, where’s our December drop 
Im sadly still having a hard time with the audio update as one of the selling points was voices in crowds and its even worse then before now i just get spatial audio headaches because the way steam audio is distributed added everyone sounds so quiet muffled like they aren’t even Infront of me or up in my ear ;-;
Adding the content to your account makes you responsible for it.
Don’t accept or add violating content to your account.
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I think they meant they are fast to handle specifically appeals tickets.
I assume they still have a backlog of moderation reports, considering how many they probably have.
So those will likely get handled sooner or later.
Y O I N K, throwing that in all my groups exactly like that
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Making a portal world to archive those is a thing.
It’s not hard, you just need a plane and the PortalMaker prefab that comes with the SDK. (Anything more than that is just extra decor but not needed per say)
I’ve been updating mine for years, sometimes 50 worlds a month. Stopped for a bit cause 1300+ was getting too laggy, but like DoomRater said there’s a portal-library prefab now.
(Currently remaking the world using it, to a fixed 240 portals)
So, yeah just make a world of your own.
You can keep it private or publish it so more people discover worlds this way, it’s up to you. But when managed correctly even 400 favs are enough. Keep 100 as “all times fav” you know you access often, make a rotation of the rest.
I’m glad that you and others are doing so! However, that statement being in your group rules is not a carte blanche or a “get out of ban free” card – but it does help illustrate the responsibility that you have as a group owner or event runner.
Let me tl;dr the tl;dr even more. Here’s the two most important things you should take away from our post:
- If your avatar has “NSFW” textures, geometry, or features on it, never set it to Public. Always set it to Private, and never use it in public spaces.
- If you think your event might involve content or behavior that someone could describe as “provocative", use Age Verification, and inform all attendees that joining that event might expose them to that content or behavior.
If everyone in a AV 18+ instance follows these guidelines, everything should be fine. If you shove that blurb into your rules and then fail to follow the guidance I gave above, it’s very likely you’ll get smacked with a suspension.
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Age verification reminds me… Any update on getting bot accounts Age verified? As an example, cause of our broadcast & relive bots we are not already running Age gated. I know people always suggest to just use another family members stuff or similar but i will NOT commit identity fraud by pretending my bot is one of my family members LOL
Happy to see though that you are so transparent with this, ngl. Saw lots of people getting worried y’all might be utilizing automated moderation lmao
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I would love some clarification regarding groups like RBN where they host Group Plus instances. I have several friends who are in those instances and I joined a friend not aware that it was a nudist/ERP group. Now that I now, I simply avoid that group because I don’t want to be around that stuff. But no one told me what the group was and I definitely didn’t consent to seeing what I saw. I literally joined into an active orgy.
In those cases, should those instances have someone at the entrance informing you that it’s a ERP instance so you can consent or leave? Instead of just joining into one by mistake when I join a friend.
No, sorry, no updates yet. We’re aware it’s a issue.
It all loops back to the beginning – it is the responsibility of the “present authority” to ensure that everyone that joins consents. It sounds like, in your situation, they failed to do so.
If they can’t do that in a Group Plus? Then don’t run a Group Plus. They should run a Group-only (AV, of course) instance and put the consent statement/inform into the rules where people see it. Alternately, they could use a custom world that has a disclaimer on join, that requires a button press to pass.
Either would work.
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If people are dumb enough to use an explicit avatar in a public instance, but keep NSFW parts toggled off, they have no room to complain. Costs nothing to make a safe version.
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If you’re maxing out your favorites list like how one maxes out there Discords list, I don’t know what to say. Then again, I should probably shut up as my Discords list having to be organized by folders lol
Love the clarification, but im curious how deep the group stuff goes, can people have a publicly searchable group thats for 18+ nsfw junk if it has that
”If you join this group/this event, you may or may not encounter provocative activities or content, and if you join this group/event, you indicate consent to view these activities or content”
stuff in the rules or something along those lines, or do those groups need to be invite only
and what of the group names? i always see groups named things like “Horny ___” and such, are those names fine or do alot of groups slip through the cracks?
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I’ll point you at our Creator Guidelines:
Group content should be “safe for work”. Group content (like names, banners, icons, descriptions, and anything else we add later on) should be “safe for work” and should not contain any inflammatory or suggestive content.
Don’t name your group NSFW things or racy stuff. Same goes for your group banner, icons, descriptions, etc. It will get changed or moderated.
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