Disallow use of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and other similar unicode in Store/Item Names
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Cutie Crush
The marketplace has a growing, serious problem with this deceptive listing practice, with stores adding ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to their store name to imply that an item being shown in a search result is actually rated 5-stars, even when it is not.
The number of stores engaging in this practice is shockingly large, with 'brands I've heard of' already doing it. The practice seems to only be growing.
Other unicode symbols that should probably be disallowed:
⭐ 🌟 ✨ ★ ☆ ✪ ✯ ✭ ✰ ⚝ ✫ ☀ 🌞 �
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Shits Lit
Hostility towards non-roman alphabet languages that disallowing unicode as a blanket rule on the marketplace would be is a very hostile change to the international Second Life userbase, this is a short-sighted request that, admittedly does come from a good place. This feedback does not call for this explicitly, but I have seen it mentioned in the comments and overall online discussion about this topic.
Different people and cultures communicate differently, and this would force uniformity that causes harm. The purpose of unicode is to provide a one-stop-shop way to communicate globally, and disallowing a subset of it is exclusionary on a very personal level.
Deceptive marketing is a massive problem, but is probably best handled on a case-by-case basis to punish those guilty of attempted manipulation rather than putting in place rules that will just be engineered around by those with the motive to deceive for profit.
Extrude Ragu
i feel like this kind of deceptive practice should come with like a risk because it's the sort of thing that costs SL money because less people are willing to shop if they think the MP is shady
like an
if I do this LL might take my store offline for a month kinda risk
Sntax
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Drake1 Nightfire
Unicode should just be disallowed in general on the MP.. It makes it harder to search for a store.. Mind you, its the merchant that's shooting themselves in the foot by using them.
Pazako Karu
Drake1 Nightfire As we don't have the ability to make headers, bold, italic, underline, tabs or any other style things on the marketplace description, abuse of Unicode (which has quirky, but consistent spacing) is rather helpful. Also, Unicode is where all the non-Latin languages are! We certainly can't throw them all under the bus. [I am not defending the abuse of Stars in store/item names, which are clearly designed to manipulate and lie]
jaragleef Resident
Drake1 Nightfire deceptive practices should be disallowed, like in the original suggestion. Unicode though is important for people to communicate. One of the vendors i love is Japanese, with little English skill. Learn to better communicate with others if you have a problem with that.
Drake1 Nightfire
jaragleef Resident Unicode used for languages s not whats being discussed here. Obviously that would stay, but unicode emojis and other non language images should not be allowed on the MP.
jaragleef Resident
Drake1 Nightfire, when you say things like "Unicode should just be disallowed in general on the MP", it's not at all "obviously" leaving an exception for languages using non-Roman alphabets. Be careful with sweeping statements like that.
misstoriblack Resident
If you are deceived by this, you probably should be really careful when browsing websites in general. Including amazon...
Cuddles Supply
misstoriblack Resident Irrelevant.
misstoriblack Resident
Cuddles Supply as this ticket
Diana Blakewell
Yes please. Very deceptive.
ZortyTheExplorer Resident
i report listing in past when i was stupid to try to help
and i got warning from staff too many report
they do not care
yes i admit i got dumb and make purchase before realize fake stars
SL Feedback
Merged in a post from BrianTopp Resident:
Title: remove emojis stars from marketplace
There are stores using emoji stars to make it look like they got 5 star ratings by putting it on their store name. Can we disable star emojis or change them to a different color.
Peter Stindberg
No brainer.