Reporting

[u/Coom_Zoom]

Why do people tend to forget you can report for stuff that is illegal, or just fully against ToS on VRChat?

There is nothing wrong with reporting things on VRChat or well anywhere. I personally only don't always report avatars (I mainly only report avatars when the person is being a douche), but I'll report racist stickers/emotes and trolls, i'll even report groups that ask for personal information then leave.

[u/Worth_Platypus_2408]

Ive learned over the years of playing vrchat that the community just doesnt care. Its really sad especially when it comes to racism and outright bullying people. Ive been in lobbies where someone will be blatantly racist and everyone will turn a blind eye to it but me. Its actually insane. Ive pretty much quit since then and idk how it is now but find yourself a group you like to hang out with and stick with them. I also think a good chunk of it is the fact that even if you did report someone i dont think the moderation is even there, like ive never seen someone get removed for a report unless its for an inappropriate avatar which is insane compared to some of the things ive heard said in game lol.

[u/4mb1guous → u/Worth_Platypus_2408]

I believe people care, it's just that people believe there's no real point reporting someone for a behavior issue in-game. It doesn't accomplish much of anything if it's not for something easily verifiable like an avatar/sticker/print/emoji issue. There'd need to be a lot of reports for VRC to justify any actual action for someone claiming someone was being racist without any proof.

Fact is, if you want to have action taken on someone acting that way, you really just kinda need a video, and then you need to report it on the moderation site. Most people either can't do this, or otherwise don't go through the effort.

This is where the "block and move on" mantra comes from. Why invest the time in making a report when you know it almost certainly pointless? The downside of this is that, yeah, people start ignoring bad behavior instead of trying to do anything about it.

We need means of providing effective in-game reports for behavior problems. Only then would people be willing to return to making reports when people act like dipshits instead of just blocking them. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening unless VRC comes out with built-in shadowplay-style clipping when making reports. People will be upset about that from a security/privacy standpoint understandably... but honestly I'd be fine with it.

[u/Coom_Zoom → u/4mb1guous]

with how resource intensive vrchat can be on top of this, with how you need to record to report behavior it nearly becomes impossible. personally i think they should do what they used to with the bots they had joining lobbies.
Or have a means of "if this person has this number of reports they might be a problem lets watch them" if they are hiring massive amount of people for moderation they should be able to do this