Hide Certain stores/items.
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Diana Blakewell
As the title suggests I'd love an ability to hide/block certain creators and their items from showing in my search/feed.
I don't wanna see poopy butts, diapers, pissplay or whatever its called, animal genitalia. Don't wanna see children oriented items and their stores.
Sometimes i wish i can filter out a creator that spammed 4-5 pages of the same item just different colors when looking for something new.
I wish when searching for "Butt tattoo" i could block an item/store that showed me the entire lowerbody of a human being covered in excrement.
Please for the love of God consider that quality of life change.
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Lettie Linden
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Block store on Marketplace
Iza Blossom
It would be amazing to be able to block a store's content from showing in Marketplace. Instead of adding a store as a favorite you could click to add store to a blocked list and then their content would no longer show in your search results.
Lettie Linden
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Block Seller on Marketplace
Zandrae Nova
Note: I know this was suggested before and it's tracked. I know this will be merged. That's okay, I wanted to give more suggestions on implementation and answer "why" beyond that it would just be a nice feature.
Problem:
You don't want to see stuff made by a certain creator on the marketplace. There may be a variety of reasons for this. Here are a few examples.
- You have the shop owner in game block due to harassment, drama, or other personal reasons and don't want to accidentally give this person money.
- The vendor is selling rips.
- The seller has a business model you don't want to support. Maybe you don't want to buy clothes that are no mod, maybe they have shady business practices that involve over-editing their ads, or using AI on their ads resulting in false advertising.
- Maybe the seller's content makes you deeply uncomfortable such as selling adult products but the models scream childlike and you don't want to see that.
- The seller is flooding the marketplace with thousands of generative AI textures to make a quick buck, making it impossible to find high quality textures. This is a growing problem that needs urgent addressing.
Solution: Allow us to block the shop and/or the owner of the shop. Owner might be better in case the marketplace someday expands to let a single user have more than one storefront. Or both. Blocking a particular product may also have its place.
Implementation:
Beneath the flag listing link there would be additional links:
- Block this shop
Behavior: Browsing and searching omits all products from the store. Adds shop to a block list. They can be removed from block list if needed.
- Block this seller (<--- Alternative, or TBI if multiple storefronts ever becomes a thing.)
Behavior: Browsing and searching omit all products from any and all products from the store. A popup that asks, "Do you want to block this person from your shop as well?" may be a good move in some circumstances. They can be removed from block list if needed.
- Hide Product
Behavior: Omits an individual product from search and browsing.
- Unhide Product
Behavior: Removes product from hide. How would you find a listing if it was hidden? Give people a checkbook to show hidden products in search and browse.
By giving us the tools to better curate our experience with the marketplace you will empower users to find what they want without having to wade through things they don't want to see, increasing the likelihood of them spending money instead of getting frustrated and giving up on the search.
Lettie Linden
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BLOCKING MERCHANTS ON MARKETPLACE
Ava Cartier
If a shopper doesn't want to see certain items on Marketplace, they should be able to block the merchant by legacy name, name as it appears on Marketplace, and item (and any other feasible way to block). There is a proliferation of spam/scam items through which a shopper must trudge while browsing a category that is both time-consuming and unnecessary. I speak specifically of AI-created items that are either nothing like their descriptions or blatant, unfinished garbage. It's not uncommon to wade through literally 80+ items on a page just to see 16 worthwhile creations. This feature should be accessible to all residents regardless of membership.
DreamWalker McCallister
I do hope that LL will soon allow us to do blocks of stores, sellers, or keywords within SL Marketplace itself, because using the existing SLM filters is often useless (many sellers, for example, refuse to mark their Demos as such,or refuse to mark gachas properly as 'Limited Quantities' -- in violation of SLM rules).
If you use your system browser (Firefox, Brave, etc) to shop on SLM, you can easily block stores, sellers, or items with specific keywords from appearing in search results... by using custom filters in Ublock Origin browser extension.
I don't know if posting Ublock filters is allowed here, but feel free to contact me in-world if you want some examples of filter text to use. You can also do similar filters in some other browser extensions that block ads, so I'm not just promoting Ublock here.
I use Ublock to prevent SLM items with specific keywords (gacha, infant, p*nis, etc) from appearing in Search results, and I also hide all search results from specific sellers or stores that use deceptive A.I. photos, or who sell A.I. slop products.
Zandrae Nova
DreamWalker McCallister This is a solution for individuals but not really a good solution for the masses.
DreamWalker McCallister
I fully agree. For now, one workaround is to use Ublock Origin browser extension to hide search results from sellers whose product you don't want to see.
Personally, I do this to hide (in search results) all products from specific A.I. slop sellers, or those that use deceptive A.I. photos. I also use filters for shops that mostly sell the sort of content I will never buy (e.g. certain body parts). Or to hide all search results that contain a specific keyword (gacha, infant, ultrarare, etc.).
I won't post any example custom filters here, as they may not be allowed by the PowersThatBe. But a good online search should reveal the sorts of custom filter text to use in Ublock Origin.
DreamWalker McCallister
Until LL addresses this huge oversight, the workaround is to use Ublock Origin browser extension to hide search results from sellers whose product you don't want to see.
Personally, I do this to block dozens of A.I. slop sellers, those that use deceptive A.I. photos, and all gacha stuff.
I won't post any example custom filters here, as they may not be allowed by the PowersThatBe.
Styx Winchester
Please this is becoming so very needed with the flood of AI generated content on MP
Zandrae Nova
Styx Winchester It's pretty much unusable at this point.
Saz Ninetails
If you block someone inworld they can't purchase from your MP store. I tried to purchase something from one of the owners of London City and got a pop up saying I had been blocked! If you don't want to buy from someones store who you dont like, just don't buy from their store. The name of the person who owns it is right there on their storefront.
Zandrae Nova
Saz Ninetails I don't want their stuff to come up in my search at all.
Arwyn Quandry
I'm assuming the only reason this hasn't been implemented is due to technical limitations, because there's no reason not to. It will make lots of us happy. Please get around to this one, LL!
Feline Halostar
Yeah I definitely need a block button for stores/merchants. I'm SO tired of seeing the AI generated crud and the model rips being sold for EXTREMELY high prices.
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