Add Option to Exclude Gacha Items from SL Marketplace Search Results
Radioactive Rosca
Description:
Currently, when searching for products on the Second Life Marketplace, results often include numerous gacha items. While gachas were once popular, many users now prefer to purchase items directly without the randomness or resale nature associated with gachas. This can make finding non-gacha products time-consuming and frustrating.
Proposed Feature:
Introduce a simple filter or checkbox in the Marketplace search interface labeled “Exclude Gacha Items”. When enabled, this filter would remove all listings tagged as gacha from the search results.
Benefits:
Improved User Experience: Users can quickly find items they want without sifting through unwanted gacha listings.
Efficiency: Reduces search clutter and saves time for shoppers.
Marketplace Transparency: Helps buyers make informed choices by distinguishing between standard items and gacha resales.
Community Alignment: Reflects the evolving preferences of Second Life residents who increasingly favor direct purchases over chance-based systems.
Why It Matters:
The Marketplace is a critical hub for Second Life commerce. Enhancing its usability with targeted filters ensures a better shopping experience, supports creators who sell non-gacha items, and aligns with Linden Lab’s efforts to maintain a fair and accessible economy.
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Summary:
Add an option to exclude gacha items from Marketplace search results.
Description:
When searching for products on the Second Life Marketplace, results often include numerous gacha items. Many users prefer to purchase items directly without the randomness or resale nature associated with gachas, making it difficult to find non-gacha products efficiently.
Proposed Solution:
Add a filter or checkbox in the Marketplace search interface labeled “Exclude Gacha Items”. When selected, this filter would remove all listings tagged as gacha from search results.
Benefits:
Improved User Experience: Easier and faster to find desired items without unwanted gacha clutter.
Efficiency: Reduces time spent scrolling through irrelevant listings.
Marketplace Transparency: Helps buyers distinguish between standard items and gacha resales.
Community Alignment: Reflects current user preferences for direct purchases over chance-based systems.
Impact:
This feature would enhance usability, support creators selling non-gacha items, and align with Linden Lab’s commitment to a fair and accessible economy.
Would you like me to also include acceptance criteria and example UI mockup descriptions to make it even stronger for Jira? Or keep it as a concise feature request?
Provide your feedback on BizChatYou said: Include UI mockup descriptionCopilot said: CopilotHere’s the Jira-ready version with a UI mockup description included:
Summary:
Add an option to exclude gacha items from Marketplace search results.
Description:
When searching for products on the Second Life Marketplace, results often include numerous gacha items. Many users prefer to purchase items directly without the randomness or resale nature associated with gachas, making it difficult to find non-gacha products efficiently.
Proposed Solution:
Add a filter or checkbox in the Marketplace search interface labeled “Exclude Gacha Items”. When selected, this filter would remove all listings tagged as gacha from search results.
UI Mockup Description:
Location:
Place the new filter in the left sidebar under “Search Filters”, alongside existing options like “Price Range” and “Permissions.”
Element Type:
A checkbox labeled:
Exclude Gacha Items
Behavior:
When checked, the search query dynamically updates to exclude all listings tagged as gacha.
When unchecked, search results remain unchanged.
Visual Example:
[ ] Exclude Gacha Items
Positioned under other filters for easy access.
Benefits:
Improved User Experience: Easier and faster to find desired items without unwanted gacha clutter.
Efficiency: Reduces time spent scrolling through irrelevant listings.
Marketplace Transparency: Helps buyers distinguish between standard items and gacha resales.
Community Alignment: Reflects current user preferences for direct purchases over chance-based systems.
Impact:
This feature would enhance usability, support creators selling non-gacha items, and align with Linden Lab’s commitment to a fair and accessible economy.
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Holocluck Henly
Perhaps a better option for search are tick boxes for permissions. This way you can be sure no No Copy items are in your results. Other than oldschool objects and gift giving items like jewelry, all the gacha items will be omitted too.
PrettyMiracle Resident
Why are you complicating things? And want to make decisions for everyone unilaterally? It's very simple. Gacha is just a transfer, and regular goods are just copies. All you need to do is check the box for copying or transferring, and voila. All goods will be filtered. By allowing trade in one, you're undermining others. Once again, you want to destroy something that was previously growing and developing, and because of you, many have lost a lot of money, goods, sales, and customers, and because of you, Linden Lab has also stopped making money. I'll repeat again, it's simple: one checkbox solves all problems. And anyone who can read knows how to use this checkbox. Are you muddying the waters? Don't you know how to read and use the checkbox?
Soap Frenzy
As a temporary solution you can filter out anything that is "No Copy" and that for the most part will only remove gacha items
Jennifer Boyle
Doesn't excluding items the quantities of which are limited accomplish what you want?
Radioactive Rosca
I don't understand why I repeated part of the text 3 times, but I can't edit it... sorry.
Chrisje Lane
The boolean operators AND and NOT should simply work as we have been told when search was supposedly improved, so NOT gacha NOT demo should exclude those items. Gachas on MP are direct sales of specific items, therefore not 'flagged' gacha.