Block Seller on Marketplace
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Zandrae Nova
Note: I know this was suggested before and it's tracked. I know this will be merged. That's okay, I wanted to give more suggestions on implementation and answer "why" beyond that it would just be a nice feature.
Problem:
You don't want to see stuff made by a certain creator on the marketplace. There may be a variety of reasons for this. Here are a few examples.
- You have the shop owner in game block due to harassment, drama, or other personal reasons and don't want to accidentally give this person money.
- The vendor is selling rips.
- The seller has a business model you don't want to support. Maybe you don't want to buy clothes that are no mod, maybe they have shady business practices that involve over-editing their ads, or using AI on their ads resulting in false advertising.
- Maybe the seller's content makes you deeply uncomfortable such as selling adult products but the models scream childlike and you don't want to see that.
- The seller is flooding the marketplace with thousands of generative AI textures to make a quick buck, making it impossible to find high quality textures. This is a growing problem that needs urgent addressing.
Solution: Allow us to block the shop and/or the owner of the shop. Owner might be better in case the marketplace someday expands to let a single user have more than one storefront. Or both. Blocking a particular product may also have its place.
Implementation:
Beneath the flag listing link there would be additional links:
- Block this shop
Behavior: Browsing and searching omits all products from the store. Adds shop to a block list. They can be removed from block list if needed.
- Block this seller (<--- Alternative, or TBI if multiple storefronts ever becomes a thing.)
Behavior: Browsing and searching omit all products from any and all products from the store. A popup that asks, "Do you want to block this person from your shop as well?" may be a good move in some circumstances. They can be removed from block list if needed.
- Hide Product
Behavior: Omits an individual product from search and browsing.
- Unhide Product
Behavior: Removes product from hide. How would you find a listing if it was hidden? Give people a checkbook to show hidden products in search and browse.
By giving us the tools to better curate our experience with the marketplace you will empower users to find what they want without having to wade through things they don't want to see, increasing the likelihood of them spending money instead of getting frustrated and giving up on the search.
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Kallee Vyper
I’m behind this. I hate having to search for things in mp these days cuz some sellers will tag all sorts of things just so their product shows up for ppl. Also, wouldn’t there be a way for a auto filter for the tags, like once you post, this filter picks up that you’re selling a shirt not anything related to sex for ex.
Medea Destiny
It's worth pointing out that this used to be a thing. Not that long ago you could add "NOT (storename)" to the end of your search, and products from that store would be excluded from the search. For people who knew this trick, the change to MP search that excluded store names from search and made that separate has been a massive negative to MP's search function.
I'll add a number 6 to the list of reasons why this is a good function to have, which from my experience back when this function was still available is by FAR the best and most frequent use I made of it:
- Blocking stores that keyword spam from your search results, so that if you want to search for say "shirt" you can simply exclude any stores who's owners put the word "shirt" as a keyword in every single product they sell, adding hundreds of irrelevant items to your search results.
If blocking a store from a search was an option, and one that didn't require you knowing a Boolean method to use, people would use it a lot to clean up their search results and sellers would thus be disincentivised from keyword spamming, which would be another huge advantage.
Emma Krokus
Having recently searched for a product and having had to scroll through maybe 200 product listings made one after the other (I kid you not) each for an individual texture by one merchant, I would have loved the option to exclude that merchant from my search temporarily.
(If the search function were better and allowed for more flexible search terms, that would be even better!)
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SL Feedback
Hello, and thank you for your detailed feature request regarding the ability to block sellers on the Marketplace. We appreciate the additional context and suggestions you've provided. This feature has indeed been brought up before, and we are merging your comments to help expedite the process. Your insights on implementation and the various reasons why this feature would be beneficial are very valuable. We have set this request to tracked, and while we cannot provide an estimate on when it might be implemented, please keep an eye on future updates. Thank you for your continued commitment to improving Second Life!