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My understanding was that most sploders were already against TOS.

My concern is how this will affect creators who only log in once every few months or no longer log in at all. Is there a warning system in place to let creators know that they're in violation of the rules? What about Marketplace listings that automatically give out a random gacha, will those listings be removed or will the entire store be banned? What if a Gacha machine is accidentally left out, say on mainland, and someone reports it? Will it just be returned to inventory? I worry that this may inadvertently cause entire stores and their content to be missing to the void, never able to be purchased again.

....Oh. Right. The shoe brand. I feel like LL should have avoided banning brand names that happen to be every day words...

I apologize, didn't see that post

A big reason I see things not fit in SL the way they fit in Blender is because you may be using the wrong Avastar version. Make sure you are using the same exact Blender and Avastar version that the dummy was created in. Also, try uploading with and without joint positions included.

try removing LI and replacing it with Land Impact.

It would be awesome, in the future, to have a list of words which are allowed and unallowed in listings. Unsurprisingly for me, it was the keyword "Pokemon" that got a few things unlisted. I get it and that's fine! But it would be nice to know instead of a vague message

Right... thanks for clearing that up Arton! it also doesn't say what you would name a high LOD mesh. Would that be _LOD3? so, paw1_LOD3, paw2_LOD3 and paw3_LOD3? Or does the highest LOD not need to be named as such? It looks like i should be naming my lowest LOD paw1_LOD0 etc., so I will give that a shot today.

Sorry -- by naming scheme I mean the naming of the individual objects within the scene, e.g. paw1, paw2, and paw3 being the exact same in both my LOD0 and physics. I will be uploading these paws one by one, but have a few more future uploads that are linksets which will have their own LODs, and am wondering if maybe I need to name the objects within the scene differently.

Ahh - I totally didn't notice that they are totally being swapped around! Which is odd, because my naming scheme is consistent I was trying to upload multiple objects for matter of convenience and to save L once I import these into main grid, but it's being the opposite of convenient right now.

Unfortunately, we had two run-ins with the same user again just this week. I'm reporting and doing everything in my power but it's a bit discouraging. I will keep reporting and see what happens, but at this rate I'm considering that he might be using multiple IPs to ban evade. It's really disappointing when users who are new to the community keep sending me logs of the same thing that I've been seeing and hearing about for years now. Either way, we're staying diligent about banning when he does reappear. The kicker is... he knows who I am (as part of sim staff)... and messaged ME with the same comments today...

It's not a super urgent issue, but I am looking for the correct way to add multiple LODs of a model manually. I am making 3 unrigged paws which are linked objects. In Blender, I applied all scales and rotations. Each LOD export has the objects named "paw 1", "paw 2" and "paw3" When I upload the lowest LOD paws on their own, they look like this But when I set them as a submesh to these paws: the lowest LOD suddenly looks like this! I've exported various LODs (about 4 different LOD levels to see what I liked best) and they all have the strangely raised or lowered toes. I can't figure out a common link between why the mesh would look this way. And yes, it does this upon import as well: (this is a different LOD level i was testing earlier today) https://i.gyazo.com/af24317c1420ab56f5ef3d423ebd2b60.mp4

Hi Dakota, This information is very helpful. If I were the one making the reports, I would be definitely adding the info about what I believe their other avatar names are. However, unsurprisingly, they never message me directly. I also feel a bit strange advising people who get these IMs to include the name of the supposed alts of the person in question in their AR, since it may be their first run-in with said person. Could I be sending an AR, as a third party, if I get notified that someone has received these explicit IMs? Or would that just be extra clutter?

Right -- we're doing that, and the ARs do appear to be working because their accounts appear to be de-activated hours to days after said incidents. However, is there any way for LL to prevent them from being able to make more accounts? Are IP bans a thing?

Hello, I am looking for advice on a user who creates new accounts and then joins groups to send sexually explicit messages to child avatars (e.g. avatars of children owned by 18+ users) I am an admin on a PG furry sim that's child-avatar friendly and have to ban said user, who creates new accounts every few weeks, from multiple groups. He specifically targets child furry avatars and small looking furry avatars, but never actually comes on-sim to any of the locations who's groups he goes to. I have made people aware of the issue and educated people on how to file abuse reports from their viewer. By the way, their accounts are being regularly banned by LL, so that's working. But the issue is that they have no issue creating a new account, paying expensive group fees, and doing it all over again. I have 0 "proof" that the person in question is the same person, except that he always joins with similar usernames, joins the same groups every time, and will always start with the same opening lines and sexual comments (e.g. "well aren't you just adorable" and instantly devolving sexual descriptions of rubbing people "down there") on clockwork. It's not a bot -- people can have full, intelligible conversations with them, and he's regularly insisted that the people submitting logs to admins are just "trolls". I am wondering if there's anything else I can be doing besides making people aware and continuing to ban this user. It's distressing to me personally because many of the people that are on our sim are victims of sexual abuse, either during adulthood or childhood, and their behavior can be detrimental to people's well-being in the space.