the longer i think about it,the more im starting to think that the missing childrens community category may...not..be a deliberate attempt to alienate us children (yes,im one of them)

hear me out

makes sense? no,of course it doesnt

i think the mp overhaul may just need an overhaul because someone didnt think this through

While I understand your perspective, I personally cannot support the addition of a specific "child avatar" category or community on the new Marketplace. It's important to note that the community sections on the Marketplace are not curated or manually created groups - they are simply keyword searches that highlight existing listings based on common themes. Creating an explicit "child" category could unintentionally draw negative attention or raise concerns about content moderation, since Second Life enforces strict policies around age representation, adult content, and roleplay contexts. Given the sensitivity of this topic, it's better to allow creators and users to tag their products with relevant keywords, rather than formalize such a category.

In short, the Marketplace already offers the necessary flexibility for creators and communities of all kinds - including those with childlike avatars - to promote their work through tags and descriptions. There is no need to introduce a separate category, especially one that could be easily misinterpreted or misused.

I see that when clicking each of the "Communities" in the list it brings up search results with that term in the "Items" field, so you can either scroll down to the "Communities" section and click one, or alternately just type the word "Gor" or "Tiny" into the search field, which brings up exactly the same results. So just to clarify, you would like a link on the marketplace below all the "Categories" in the "Communities" section along with Gor and Tiny etc. called "Child"?

would also be nice for a sub catigory devision between prim babies like zoobie and actual avatar children when it comes to items.

Agreed, I wouldn't mind a Kids Section for the Second Life Marketplace, it'd make it a lot easier to find items for Toddleedoo or other child avatar brands.

The Kid Community in Second Life does need some representation in some form.

I think in all honesty, the Child Avatar community needs better respect and community focus as a representation from LL inworld BEFORE focus on marketplace. They will not do this unless, some valid questions are filtered to upper management from concerned residents who these issues affect.

I do not include open cast meetings, where every biased and inflamed Tom, Dick and Harry can attend in to vent a half stabbed/ semi-populist mouthpiece. Especially when meeting in open invite attendance, creates structured disorder as well as anti- kid partisan crowds who give no constructive comments to issues at hand.

This includes Child Avatar marketplace, where many items were stripped from the site because they were deemed "inappropriate" when actually not (when actually some were removed due to moral panic and fear of public retribution), which incidentally shows LL also had no control over its marauding residents ganging up on them in anti SL kid sentiment.

Instead pandering and pacified to them, in fear for various managemental reasons. The kid and family community suffered in many ways, not the people responsible for any article nor accusation... trolls or otherwise!

The SL kid community had always been a financial rock to LL, pre mesh/ photographic sim age. It gave LL money to fund benefits to advance with profits, as many SL kid and Family communities invested in mass sim rentals (often via other SL kid community residents) with open pockets. They were the original DIY (Do-It-Yourself) movement, that were openly creative and self-reliant communities on offer.

Yet Linden Labs allowed others to victimize, troll, accuse and even turn a blind eye to freeloading accounts, some of the worst examples to even profit off monetary content; to further create negative stigmas (and uninformed bias) through anti-SL Kid content on various social media sites. It's an absolute travesty.

Linden Labs needs to go back to understanding the value the Family Community brings to SL, rather than just its low percentage of questionable types which all communities have. LL need to do better !!

I agree there should be a child avatar section in the marketplace. Please add the section for a busy community.

I've always been a child avatar, always will be, I will never be anything else... I didn't even notice the section disappeared until someone just informed me of this post... Please bring it back, there's a massive community of us out there and we deserve to be treated equally.

I agree that there should be a category for child avatars. This is an important category for many in SL. Unfortunately, the idea of child avatars is often conflated with unseemly things, but that is only rarely the case. The vast majority of child avatars and child-focused products and places in SL is Totally Innocent!

I've been a child avatar going on twenty years. We are a quality community with a lot of investment in SL Any world would be a lesser place without children, second childhood or otherwise. We should be represented.