Dolly WaifuNo. Linden Lab will lose thousands of US dollars of mine and others when it starts causing stores blocked by people like you over matters of taste and judgement many people do NOT share -- and forcing their ranking in search to downgrade. That means we can't see their offerings and buy them and LL loses its commission. Your private preferences have affect on the entire system and can't be allowed to damage a shared resource. Use existing filters and improve your search words to get better results or join groups of merchants you like, shop at events, and go inworld to preferred merchants. This proposal would destroy the last bastion of free accessibility for many people in SL to the economy.

Ikaros Alpha To achieve this goal, look up exact name searches of the merchant you wish to shop from. And use more precise key words, and look at 6 pages and not 3000. Then your experience will be improved, without demanding a feature that drives down in search results everyone else you don't like, making them not appear for those willing to view their offerings. No grouplet with a determined agenda, for any reason or no reason, should overthrow the feature set for that reason.

Prokofy Neva "making them not appear for those willing to view" has nothing to do with my original request to be PERSONALLY able to block MP shops just like I can PERSONALLY block residents and I can PERSONALLY derender/blacklist items in Firestorm.

Ikaros AlphaPERSONAL choices in a shared, contiguous, diverse, multinational world have CONSEQUENCES on OTHER PERSONS besides you. In search, the collective weight of the mass of blocking drives down many merchants in search results, warps search around the actions of those seeking ONLY PERSONAL PREFERENCE and impacts the entire diverse world. I'm not for having small factions overthrow the viewer, the world, the Lindens. Maybe some day there will be "SL in a Box" where people can brew their own and have their own servers in their garage or local pub and do as they wish completely. But SL isn't in a box; it's live 24/7 on AWS servers open to the public, and its Marketplace should serve the diverse international public fairly.

"Everybody the same experience" sounds like Communism. I'm not here to experience that.

Cackle AmoreAND change the very nature of the last free, democratic, and open space of SL where neither land nor tier nor acceptance into shopping event cartels or other in-groups are required. This public good may not matter to you; it does to thousands of other merchants. You are selling 62 items to a furry niche RP audience and that's great -- the entire structure and affordances of the Marketplace should be all about letting anyone sell anything of any amount to any niche or large audience they work. But you also believe any block in search will not affect you -- that your friends in your small circle will keep on buying your furry kits. You imagine no one will ever block "all things furry" or if they do, it won't matter because you make social sales to your RP group of friends and aquaintances and they don't need search, they just need social proximity to make a buy.

This is a different dynamic than what the entire Marketplace has to be, which is a large diverse bazaar of everything for everybody which they find by searching either an exact name of a merchant or an exact name of an item, or use key words plus the categories along the edge (these are the best refiners of search, I find). So, sorry, I'm not for people who have no stake in the diversity and the success of the many, who think that if they are not harmed by their own proposal or their friend's proposal, that it's fine to "put in block" and "everyone will thank you". Well, no. The people driven down in search results -- which you may find will eventually even include you and your pals -- will not be grateful. The Lindens have to balance the demands of a diverse world. Let's hope they will not be overthrown once again on special pleadings.

I just want to be able to filter out stores from search results I don't care for or feel like are a detriment to finding what I'm actually trying to find.

Nothing more, nothing less, it isn't that deep.

Now I will agree, the initial OP is much more aggressive in what they want, but that's why my comment was just focusing on the ability to block stores from search the same way we can add stores to a favorites list.

Being able to cultivate our own search feed would address most of the issues.

Cackle AmoreThe word of SL is filled with people who are "not that deep" doing things that are "not that deep" and one hopes that the Lindens are still able to engage in Governance, even though they have now offloaded this difficult task to young Lindens and Mole contractors in something very different, about protecting their own platform, not the world, called "Trust & Safety". I'm glad you concede the OP is "more aggressive" than you conceive of your self-interested search affordances. But your search with your blocks ultimately ends up affecting MY search and the search of OTHER PEOPLE, even if only 42 people are here now, mainly without stores or single/a few items in their stores or representing furry RP in their stores. That is not "everyone". It's not even "a faction" of some size". So I'm not for this or any faction (the determined anti-AI crew or the determined edu-uber-alles crew also represented on this thread) for overthrowing the more or less democratic and free viewer and the more or less democratic and free-for-enterprise Marketplace.

The MP exists for all kinds of people, of varying degrees of talent and creativity, with varying degrees of access to tools and types of tools. Good! It's the last truly free and open Marketplace in fact of our world where THIS is what prevails, everywhere: event cartels, exclusive boutiques, the limited list of "Shop 'n Hop", the proliferation of weekend sales lasting all week but which only a few gain entry, closed sims and blocked vendors and ban list. No thank you. Leave the Britney-the-MP alone. I don't care if you find her crass or crude or tasteless or in mass cultural format or WHAT your problem is with the content on the MP -- shop at your RP sim's vendors then, they need the business. Search for your exact friend's name, they need the business.

Blocking has consequences; it deteriorates further the open and democratic nature of the world.

How would it effect your search though if I have one or two stores blocked on my end? How would anyones choice of what stores to filter out of their own search effect yours?

If you choose to not use such a feature, then your search results will be the same as it's always been.

Like I am genuinely confused on trying to figure out where the issue is with allowing people more ways to filter their personal marketplace search.

Is having the option to filter results by mod permissions bad?

Cackle AmoreThe fact that you persist in not seeing how your own actions affect others in a shared system makes you unsuited to promote this proposal. It's not true that all the stores blocked by you and yours would somehow still be "available" for me to "see". You're not grasping that the cumulative affect on this system of some stores constantly being shunned, blocked, and ignored -- because they use AI (real or imagined), because they build with sculpties, beause somebody doesn't like their blog, because of whatever -- is in fact to drive down all those stores in search. Because they will never been seen and clicked on by hordes of people.

When stores are blocked and driven down out of the view and never seen or clicked on, ever, then they stop showing up higher in search.

Why this needs constant explaining is beyond me.

In fact the Lindens would have to make an extra effort to code something beyond the normal Google-type search -- and build in some extra protection that meant that "stores that are blocked for any reason or no reason" will still be allowed to be seen in search.

Except...the randomness of their being available always and everywhere, even if not on the top pages of search, meant that even those vicious blockers would occasionally click on them and perhaps overcome their vehement prejudices for a moment to view the offerings of their fellow human being.

Actions have consequences in shared system. The idea that you can just limit the blocking behaviour to some narrow number of stores that "everyone will want to block," or that "only some people will block stores" are ludicrous. Of course it will spread as a behaviour and there will be entire vehement blocking parties in retaliation against somebody accused (rightly or wrongly) of stealing somebody's hair, or using AI in their ads (true or false). It will be like the old negrating parties of yesteryear and also like mass vendor blocking. I'm not sof rmaking the world a more sequestered and atomized and compartmentalized place than it already is.

If you can't plug in ordinary search terms and use existing filters of the ratings like "G/M/A" plus categories and other aspects, then shop inworld just in your friends' stores. Why even go on the Marketplace? If you must go there, just type in an exact name search of your approved merchant that you and your group have approved for whatever reason. You don't have to impose your prejudices on an entire system, and drive down results in search of people you dislike.

I'm not afraid of seeing merchants I don't care about in my search results because I can scroll through them quickly and keep refining my search terms. I'm not interested in overthrowing Search to suit tiny sects of people with a beef. You don't believe that search results are driven downward when people don't see them and therefore never click on them but of course they are. No Lindens has refuted this to my knowledge and there is no reason to believe their search, with whatever tools, works differently than Google or Bing does.

Prokofy Neva If enough people say you don't deserve the business that your impact in search results is lowered, is that not also democratic?

Dolly WaifuNo, coerciveness by lynch mobs trying to force someone off the Marketplace is the opposite of liberal democracy. If you don't want to see a store, don't search for it by name. Glad you're admitting that the search results would be lowered.

Prokofy Neva Nothing is going to be "forced off the marketplace." Lowered search results are not the same as removal. If your products stand up on their own, they will still be purchased and still stay high in search results. If you want the market to buy your goods, make better goods. Nobody is owed success.