Tackling Censorship and Building a Safer Community

@Crassa - in agreement here. I don't want censoring on vu, either.

I'm AP, and Age Verified verified.. I noticed the upcoming AP + is  going to be Subscription based? WTF.. so your gonna charge us even more to be free of Censor? or what Devs?   we will still be censored and expected to pay a monthly fee? or weekly?

Susuke, you presume the VU development team cares. It's probably safe to say that they really don't, at this point. We're just great test beds for their stupid AI shit.

funny how i was told the censorship thing had nothing to do with ap+ yet, the ap+ users are not censored at all. i was told that it has nothing to do with that at all but seems i was lied too again by imvu. and they only invite so many people to test... probably people who dont post on forums so you all dont learn the truth! censorship from an american company is illegal unless its in a workplace. we dont work here!

I fully agree with Jesse. The environment in the chat rooms is so toxic I don’t use them anymore. Was so scared of bans I closed all my public rooms. When my account of 15 years was banned over a roleplay I stopped using the app except with free GA accounts out of fear. Imvu rewards bullies , new users who don’t buy anything, and sex addicts. They banned so many devs , and still won’t allow a verified adult male to have an erection as any person past puberty has in reality. This is all nuts  and since the app moving to smart phones it’s become a horrid place. You’re right, it’s not an escape it’s a nightmare and I’m moving my money someplace else. Never seen any company or organization so abusive to its own customers. It’s run more like prison than a corporation. Horrible. The devs made a good technology years ago but the administration has killed it. Very unfair and random . And why are there people dressed like 5 years old in prostitution rooms in Imvu with no way to flag it? I’ve flagged dozens of rooms for rape torture or black market products , all remain up and open . Imvu is lost as a company. Sad. Had a lot of potential 

No one even knows what Imvu is or is trying to be anymore. An animated social media site as an extension of reality, ? A graphic 3d roleplay site with nothing to do with reality? A place to police peoples thoughts and report them to FBI? Probably safest to log off and never enter this app again. It’s not safe in 100 different ways 

Thank you all for bringing the recent issues with censorship to our attention. As IMVU has transitioned to a new chat tool, we are in the process of fine-tuning the system, and your feedback has been instrumental in helping us improve this new model.



Who Is With Me On This:

I DO NOT WANT YOUR NEW CHAT MODEL!!!

YOU WANT THAT CHAT MODEL??
-- GO PROMOTE IT ON MOBILE

I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT, ~_~

IF YOUR UN-WILLING TO ACCEPT IT??

GUESS WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR CENSORSHIPS!!!

I'LL DROWN THEM RIGHT ALONG WITH THE CHILDREN HERE
THAT YOUR MAKING IMVU SAFE FOR,    o____O


IF THE CHILDREN MEAN SOOO MUCH TO IMVU,
THEN LEAVE US ALONE!!!

OR WE KNOW WHAT MAKES YOU PIZZED OFF!!!

Thank you all for your feedback and reports regarding content restrictions. We have made adjustments to address this issue, and we encourage you to let us know if you continue to experience any problems. Our main goal is to maintain a respectful environment while also allowing for diverse expressions. We appreciate everyone’s input in helping us achieve this balance.

@Doompixie 

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us. I want to reassure you that we deeply value the feedback from our community, as it plays a vital role in shaping our decisions and priorities. We understand that some recent updates have felt frustrating, and while our execution may not always be perfect, please know that our intention is genuinely to create a safe and positive experience for all of our users.

We’re actively working to address both current issues and longer-standing ones, including improving moderation tools and tackling the challenges posed by spam bots. Our focus remains on balancing proactive measures with community-driven changes, and feedback like yours is crucial in guiding these efforts.

Please continue to share your honest insights as we listen closely to what our community has to say. We’re committed to learning from this feedback and growing in ways that make a meaningful difference. Thank you for your patience and for being part of the IMVU community. Your voice truly matters to us.

@Crassa - this was impacting us in classic client, but we agree 1000%, otherwise 

AlphaJVicious: fucker

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AlphaJVicious: slut

AlphaJVicious: cum

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AlphaJVicious: whore

This is my room in  PC , when going in shared room generating the same words  it pops up even used in a sentence playing around .  If I go into my public room none of these words are flagged.

I've already read a lot of complaints about this.  My own actual experience with it is ....is that it is happening to me in chat in PRIVATE (non-public) rooms. ????  You HAVE to fix this before you roll it out!  I definitely understand your reasons for implementing it in PUBLIC GA rooms, ...I get that.  But I'm hoping this is not going to extend into people's private rooms and AP rooms, either intentionally or "accidentally".  IMVU, I'm begging you ...DON'T SHOOT YOURSELF IN YOUR OWN FOOT AGAIN.  Safety has to be implemented in the proper way.  You have a lot of legacy users who love the platform.  Your "so-called" automated script/bot in 2021 for weeding-out people who were supposedly using an "Unauthorized Client" FAILED MISERABLY, permanently disabling a lot of people (including myself), some who you have lost, some of them good legacy users who had been with you for 14 years.  That in-and-of itself proves that you really don't care "nothing" about your customers.  Please at least let us know what in the world is going on, and GIVE YOUR USERBASE "NOTIFICATION" on what you're doing, and what the rules will be for this, ...."if" ....and definitely "before" you implement it.  Because if it "FAILS", and you go resorting to automatically suspending/disabling people from another defective script/bot, I think that will be the final straw-in-the-camels-back that will cause you to lose your userbase, your online numbers, and finally bring an end to IMVU.

This discussion was quite for sometime and I assume the issue is still there… even though I didn’t get censored for a while, perhaps because I cut down my going to rooms time by good 95%, but as a greeter I spent at list 30 minutes everyday in Hangouts rooms and it’s like all hell broke loose there. People cursing, insulting, bullying, from time to time I walk in on conversations that are literally can be characterized as unlawful and come with a punishment 10-15 years in prison. Absolutely nothing is censored and if I try to interrupt it… I can start writing a dictionary on millions ways how to insult a person. 

I believe, that the only reason this censorship was only implemented in private rooms, to get long-active users to provide feedback, because those 1hour old and free-to-play accounts simply don't care about all that…

And in the light of all this it’s really standing out the way old accounts are being treated. It’s exactly as mentioned below, we can spend whole day reporting bad behavior, bad rooms and products and they will remain live and untouched, but one fake complaint against you will get you banned almost instantly.

So yes. Stay safe, stay quite, don't go anywhere and enjoy this amazing direction this social platform is going to… just wish we knew what this direction is …

the methods chosen could potentially alienate their current user base unless managed with substantial care and user engagement.

1000%, and from what all of us have seen here is a lack of any significant care or consideration for the user base.

During COVID, it was normal to see 200k+ users on at peak times during the day. Now, we're seeing maybe 50k. On a good day.

IMVU is going to have to start listening to it's customers or it'll be effectively dead as a platform in a few years, at most.