Web/Marketplace Features

So going into this, I want to disclaim that I myself am not against AI. I personally have used it before, and will do so in the future. A specific chat AI helps me regularly with solving problems. However, I am against people intentionally misleading people about content, and polluting search results with content made in mere seconds, and find it no different than spam. If I made something that randomly generated randomly colored squares on a white canvas, and listed it a dozen or so times, it'd be seen as spam. Additionally, this issue was brought up in the SL Discord marketplace chat. I've moved it here so that it can get more recognition and visibility to LL. Personally, I believe that a policy worded like so would benefit everyone in the long run (canny has messed up some formatting here, so it looks like it has no line breaks, these have been substituted with "---" for readability) Content that is the sole generation of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or otherwise Generative Content, except in the cases where the generator was written for the sole purpose of generating a specific element, may not be listed on the Marketplace as-is or as the focal point of the content that is listed. --- AI images must never be used to generate listing images, and must be presented as the content appears in SL. Overlays, such as permission information, price, branding labels, or sales labels, are permitted as much so as they do not mis-represent the content that is being advertised. --- Examples of forbidden listings: * In singular or collection, AI generated content as a texture, image, mesh, sound or other type of asset, as the sole content being listed. * A AI generated image in a picture frame. * A museum prefab filled with AI generated images as a "ready to go" model. * A object that plays randomly generated AI voice clips. * Attempting to pass off or mislead people that AI generated content as original, hand crafted content. * A listing which shows a AI enhanced product preview. --- Examples of allowed listings: * A house that has a AI generated poster in it, where the poster is not the selling point of the house. * A museum model that has some AI generated images, or is focused on the topic of AI generated content. * A NPC, that among other features, plays AI generated voice clips. * A model that has AI generated textures, where the model is not AI generated. --- Listings that make use of 50% or more in it's creation must be clearly labeled as using AI generation or assistance in the listing description. Interpretation of what counts as "50% or more is" left solely to Linden Lab. Listings that use AI but under the 50% threshold are recommended, but not required, to disclose that AI is used in some capacity. In summary, it forbids listing of content on the marketplace, free or for sale, that is entirely AI generated, requires disclosure of AI generated content when AI does a majority of the work, and guards against some loopholes. This probably (as in, very likely. I feel this is implied, but just in case) isn't needed, but: Because this will probably get passed by the lawyers, I hereby grant all permission to Linden Lab to use or transform the above work in any way, without attribution or compensation. Linden Lab has the opportunity to deal with this now before it gets too out of control. Only a handful of residents would be in violation of this policy. This also only applies to marketplace stuff, not in-world content.

Sometimes the Best Selling list gets a bit stale, and you just want to see what is recently popular. The ability to sort by items that had the most sales in the last month/year would help find fresher options I think.

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.

Being able to have more than one store in the same account would be very convenient. For example, I do general scripting and game stuff on one hand, and stuff for a specific avatar on the other. These are very different product types, and it'd make sense to separate them into their own stores. While I could create an alt to have a second store, being able to manage it all from the same account would be preferable. Features like reports and sales information could keep showing the same information they do now, if necessary. While it'd be nice to have separate reports for each store instead of just one report with all your products, that seems less important than the ability to create separate stores in the first place.

Introduce a search filter for items within your favorite stores only. i.e. excluding search returns outside your favorite stores list.

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. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/en-US/stores/store_name_search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bsort%5D=&search%5Bkeywords%5D=%E2%AD%90 Other unicode symbols that should probably be disallowed: ⭐ 🌟 ✨ ★ ☆ ✪ ✯ ✭ ✰ ⚝ ✫ ☀ 🌞 �

An interesting option that would remove hours of massive work for most large marketplace stores would be an option in which we can put our entire store or groups of products on discount, so that on days like Black Friday or 11.11 for example we can easily put our store has a discount so that our public can purchase the products, it would also be interesting if there was some type of visual warning that that product is at a discount, such as text in red writing the discount value of that product, thus easily showing that the product is at a discount For the buyer, with this idea people would be able to buy more as they would know that it was on sale and it would help with the second life economy in general.

Whenever I want to add an item or a store to my Favorites to go back to later, you always get redirected to your favorites page. This is completely unnecessary. I want to look at it "later". I don't need to see it actually "added" to my favorites. If it had some type of way to organize your favorites, I could see this making sense so that you can "file" it under whatever "category" or "folder" you created for yourself. But all it is a bookmarking system. You don't need to redirect to "see" it in the list. It's annoying to have to hit the back button every single time. Just clicking to "add" like anything else that "bookmarks" a page is sufficient.

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.

Right now finding ToS for full perm assets is allover the place, I feel like there should be a simple standard place and requirement to find the ToS for any full perm asset both on the MP page, and a requirement to have a place in any in world store to notify customers about the ToS on a full perm asset. I'll copy what I posted about it in the forums here too; This is actually something that I would love to see standardized, not in the creator's ability to set their terms, as they should be able to that as they wish, but in how the terms are obtained. Right now it is all over the place, some have the license on the MP page, some with the product [which is really unfair to buy something without even knowing what the terms for the product are], some both and some don't even have any. They also can often change through product, it's a huge mess! I would love to see a place on the MP for full perm assets dedicated and required to be filled out so there was an easy place to see and go back and reference a license. I think there should also be a requirement to have the licensing posted or obtainable in someway to an inworld store. It should be the most basic information someone looking to buy and use full perm assets should be able to find, but it's allover the place, a nightmare to keep track of, especially the more assets you have, this should be the easiest part to find.