Improved tools for flagging avatar cards

Varsha · Last edited by Varsha on Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:39 am; edited 1 time in total

Effective Monday, January 16th, we have improved the way our users can flag inappropriate content on avatar cards. Now you can choose the reason for the flag using a drop-down menu and select from avatar photo, avatar name, tagline and interests.

The change is available to all users if you report an avatar card from our website. You can flag the avatar image, name or tagline.

The new way of reporting is also available in our latest 3D chat version - 467.30 and will be part of our next release 468.0.

When you flag an avatar card from within the 3D Chat, you will be able to select from image, name, tagline as well as interests.

We want to make IMVU experience fun and safe for all our users and hope that this helps in toward that goal.

Thank you.
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AdrihannaLegend · Joined: 08 Jul 2010 Posts: 7 Location: USA - MA

I find it funny how one person can decide what is appropriate or not. It's like product for example a GA sofa I made, was tagged innappropriate..it context was suciacidal,blah blah..god sake..it was black and white..

Like a pro pic with your avi dressed or your real avi dressed sexy..anyone one, especially your haters can just go click..and waaalaa....you are tagged as being inappropriates..smdh...

We for the most majority of imvu player are adults..and should be able to express ourself..yes I agree some pics are a bit much, but you have two option..keep it moving or block, period..to each is own.

MarianneMoon · Joined: 25 Aug 2010 Posts: 32 Location: USA - VA

Just imvu's way to fob off doing their job.

TheGoodSon · Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 18048 Location: USA - CA

Marianne, its not taking the job out of IMVU's hands, users have always "flagged" products, profiles, etc for violations of the TOS and the virtual goods policy. This just makes it more simple to flag a person and gives staff a clearer picture of what's being flagged, thus they are able to correct what issue is at hand (from deleting a person's nude pic, to deleting inappropriate words in "interests")
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Tymon · Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 1314 Location: USA - MI

How can you have inappropriate interests? "You cannot be interested in x!" seriously now? What construes as inappropriate? No longer can we have sex related things in there? Or d/s related things? Isn't this going too far forcing people to only express interests in GA things? Or does this only include profanity related things?
You say that..
We want to make IMVU experience fun and safe for all our users and hope that this helps in toward that goal.

Then why not make it where you can designate profile cards AP only and allow ADULTS to have ADULT related interests, or, do what you did with the catalog/public rooms, where you filter things based upon if someone has an AP or not instead of forcing us to cater to children?
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StuupidFoxx · Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 1 Location: USA - OH

xXBluSoldierFairyXx · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:05 pm Post subject:

man you guys should put in OBSCENE LANGUAGE FILTER!!! in the chat as well .. i had it with people cursing at me in chat, pulse,and worse whisper..... please take this seriously
now i am scared to up load anything now ..... too many haters on imvu will do this as wickedness...

Karenferndale · Joined: 07 May 2007 Posts: 11598 Location: Australia

Tymon · Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 1314 Location: USA - MI

r0ckfan · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 7 Location: United Kingdom

if imvu keep removing are rights to do things as adults who hold the access pass then why not just remove all things normal none ap vip age aproved or what ever stupid little thing comes next and call this site pnogb sort for play nice or get banned

HighEmpRavenAsiuWolf · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 20 Location: USA - HI

are you serious?..you can flag our cards now? like seriously...come on ppl,im a adult and i should be able to write what ever i want as my tag line...so if someone has an issue with me and thinks that oh idk i was un fair in anyway that i spoke can just go and click inappropiate..for anything that they wish...or read my interest and say.."hmm well i dnt like her and i dnt like that she has this n this in her interest so im a just click in appropiate" come on thats a lil to far dnt you think?..i can see something being flagged yes but not everything..alot of ppl here are role players so they have it in there interest for other role players to see..geesh not all of us are children or druggies who are in jail..for god sakes...so stop treating us as such.
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MinhyrdinWindrose · Moderator Joined: 13 Mar 2007 Posts: 15656 Location: USA

The TOS was updated several months ago to more clearly state that everything on your avatar card -- including your profile picture, tagline and interests -- must be GA appropriate. BDSM is AP only, therefore, yes, your avi card can be flagged for displaying that in your interests.
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Tymon · Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 1314 Location: USA - MI

Mowji · Joined: 02 Sep 2010 Posts: 578 Location: Netherlands

KylarTheNightEngel_disabl · Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Israel

One thing IMVU fails to realize is that without being able to post more than vanilla GA interests and tag lines it will be harder to find friends with "same" interests that are not kids because there are only but so many things GA in the world today that can't be misconstrued, if a kid is getting on here and seing the AP stuff or adult interests what's to say the kid isn't already going to other adult sites anyway. and look at the media today, cussing and explicit content as imvu calls it is all over tv so why not let us have our individuality in interests and leave it at that. If someone or something you see offends you move on and just don't talk to that person or group or don't go to the room. end of story. WE ARE ALL JUST HERE TO HAVE FUN. so find a group you like and have fun without ruining it for everyone else.