If you want anything else you need to incorporate and enforce standards and practices right from the start, but then you'll be perceived as corporate and lame.
If you want anything else you need to incorporate and enforce standards and practices right from the start, but then you'll be perceived as corporate and lame.
If you hold an event on your own land, you can block people, or require they be in a your group just to get in. You can prevent objects owned by others from entering. You can kick people out and send them to their home location. You can even use weapons they can't use on your property to apply large physical forces to their avatar and kick them up a few thousand meters. That's usually considered overkill. Property owners have more than enough tools to deal with problems. This is why Second Life needs only a tiny "governance" unit.
I have a virtual motorcycle shop in an adult area of Second Life and I'm not seeing annoyances like that. All the action is in nightclubs and people's own houses, just like real life.
What exactly are we warning people about?
This would've been funnier if it weren't 11 hours later.
If this is what you want then that's fine, but it doesn't mesh with "The Metaverse" as it is typically envisioned.
Calling people names says a lot more about you than it does about furries and "weirdos." I am happy you are in no way responsible for defining what the metaverse is or isn't.
They're people just like you. They also run the internet. [1]
[1] https://thespinoff.co.nz/irl/11-01-2022/who-runs-the-interne...
So are serial killers. If people can't judge you by what you say and do, it really limits the range of human interaction.
A common con in capitalism is to sell people on "free-speech" and "anti-corporate" agendas in your capitalist corporate product. I think most sensible people see through this, but there's a segment who just take to it pretty well and they tend to have marginalized and very questionable ideas about politics, race, religion, age of consent, boundaries, and justifiable terrorism.
Every "free speech" equivalent to the big players has failed and badly. Voat can't touch reddit. Parlour can't touch twitter, etc.
The real problem with these companies is that ultimately they want growth and profitability, thus when they try to expand out you now have the "Nazi Bar" problem, where the marginalized end up owning the establishment and chasing away everyone else.
Good moderation, protection of minorities, protection of LGBTQ people, protection of women, curtailing all hate speech, strict penalties, etc is the formula for success whether the tech libertarian crowd likes it or not. This is why your company has HR policies like this too. Once you let in the first Nazi into your bar, its over.
Vladislav Surkov doesn't work for Putin anymore, so the likelihood he'll be griefing Kasparov with flying penises is pretty low.
But you make a very valid point, some online experiences are probably better when restraint can be enforced.