Improve Search for Regions and Search Engine G,M,A,F or (NH)
Aislen Atheria
As a region owner and someone who likes to explore I think this is important to implement. It’s a simple fix. In the land description, there should be an option to select “Furries” or “No Furries,” with a clear yes or no toggle. This would make it much easier to search for and find locations that are welcoming to the furry community, especially for those who want to explore.
Right now, furries go places and end up getting kicked out. After a while, that gets discouraging and furries stop exploring. It starts to feel like the only options are furry clubs, empty regions, or shopping areas, and without new experiences, logging into SL becomes less appealing.
I’ve met furries who have never seen a live singer in SL simply because they didn’t know they were allowed in human clubs. On the other side, some landowners don’t even know what furries are, so there’s no clear note, notecard, or description either way. That leads to awkward situations where someone shows up and is told, “your kind aren’t allowed here.”
Please come up with a simple solution. Searches should make it easy to find places where furries are actually welcome. I always put “furries welcome” in my description, but when you search, that is few and far between, and furries are a huge community in SL.
If search had a toggle like G, M, A, where you could also select F for furry friendly regions, OR NH (for Non-Human Welcome) for all of the non-human + furry avatars. it would make exploring and finding new places much easier.
I see about 10 upsides and only 1 downside to this. Thoughts?
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Giskard Triellis
There are already descriptions for regions and parcels which can reflect avatar restrictions. If a player is avoiding locations simply because its not marked furry, that's on that player and not the venue. If one shows up at a location which has such restriction either adjust to fit or move on. Every sl account now has a multitude of human avatars. Also most furry avatars are now built on human bodies. When in Rome do as the Romans do!
Aislen Atheria
Giskard Triellis SL is not Rome, so I don't agree with this at all. And the point is most users don't say one way or another until you're there. Many of the LL staff are furries so not sure why furries being in SL is such an issue with users but it should be a lot easier to search...
Rowan Amore
The only avatars I can see needing a specific allow or disallow rating would be child avatars in Moderate since a lot of Moderate does include adult activity which they are forbidden to be around. M/G or M/A
Any other type; furry, non-mesh, non-human, can simply leave without any possible repercussions.
Aislen Atheria
Rowan Amore when you are looking for things to do in SL and you get told to leave in 5 out of 6 instances simply because there is no info, or just ejected it makes SL less desirable. We want people to stay, not leave SL and I can already see for the past 8 years how many have left SL due to this problem. Many of my furry friends no longer come to SL in search of a better place for them and I don't blame them.
Zi Ree
What about Robots? Anime avatars? Feral animals? Giants? Ghosts? Plant creatures? Living rocks? ... Do they all get their own marker?
Aislen Atheria
Zi Ree if it was a 1 size fits all marker. Why not. Human Only, No Humans Welcome. Not that hard.
Toothless Draegonne
This is... weird. What if I want to make a general-rated furry region?
You know you can add a description to your search results, right? That's where you can put what kinds of audience you are catering to. You can also put in a covenant for private regions, which can dictate what the region is to be used for.
Truth be told, I never wear "human" avatars, and I've not yet been thrown out of a place for being some flavour of oddball. If they don't want me there, I teleport out. Nothing of value is lost. c:
Aislen Atheria
Toothless Draegonne Most don’t add that to the search, which is stated in the post, and that becomes the problem.
It sounds like you go to places where you don’t get ejected or told to leave, which is awesome.
With, what, 29,000 regions now, it makes sense that you might have a different experience than others, but it’s a big problem in SL.
When I first opened my region, a furry came by to chat. I didn’t even know what a furry was. He asked me if he was allowed to be there.
Then he gave me the details of what he has to go through being on a non-furry region or parcel, so I immediately put “furry friendly” in the description.
But since then, we get a lot of visitors experiencing the same issues in SL.
Eight years later, it just seems ridiculous to me when there should be easy-to-search places for non-human avatars to go.
Kuva Nishi
This would be a very useful feature. It's mentally draining and discouraging to filter through places that seem welcoming to all, only to find out that "all" doesn't mean -me- just because of how I choose to present myself in-world.
If I'm not allowed somewhere, it would be really nice to have that information before ever pressing teleport and facing the insult of being asked to change or leave.