Muting

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Anybody else think muting is a big problem in this game? Its easy to get muted.

[Cali]

Depends really. I didn't had much of an issue with it.

Yes people are sometimes trigger happy on the mute. Typically if someone stumbles into a conversation, others just only want to converse with a few selected people and mute others by default to turn off the random chatter.

Really if someone muted you though for no reason. I don't think they are worth your time to hassle about. I wouldn't think they be much of the friendly kind to begin with if they did that.

[TwIsT [S9N]]

The following is only to inform, not to offend: Most often, when I mute someone, it's because they're getting on my nerves, often due to carrying on like a childish lunatic. My take is that if I've muted someone, I don't care what they have to say, because I no longer have to hear it. Just the same as users have the right to use their account to access VRChat, users also have the right to mute anyone they don't want to hear. If you're getting muted often, perhaps it's time to consider your own behavior and change it, or alternatively, accept that not everyone is going to like you and don't get upset about their reaction that is totally within their right to have.

I can't personally recall ever being blocked or muted by anyone, but then again, I also don't scream into my mic, harass other users, nor do anything that would lead to someone reporting me. What I'm saying here is, most of what you get out of VRChat in large part depends upon what you put into it. If you're chill and get along well with others, you'll at least be much more likely to have a great time with it --on the other hand, if you use VRChat to try to annoy other users because they're not giving you the attention that you feel you deserve, then you're likely to find VRChat to be very frustrating.

Anyway, that's just my observation, so I encourage you to seek other opinions --but consider also that for any one given world, there are usually several instances of it. If you're being muted by a group of people in a given instance, go to another instance. If you see a pattern of being muted everywhere you go on VRChat, then the problem isn't them, it's you.

Now like I say, this is just to inform. I don't know you at all, so I have no opinion about you either way, but I do know that most things in life have both a cause and an effect, that seldom anything happens 'just because'. Now granted, some people are just generally mean, but think about it... what would generally lead an absolute stranger to censor someone they've never met? 9 out of 10 of the answers will likely be because the person being censored did something that was ill received and reacted upon.

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

Easy muting isnt a problem, it's the solution.

Problems are:
- kids screaming their lungs out in their microphone set to the maximum level.
- Peoples forcing their crap music on everybody around
- Peoples with awfull echo/larsen because they dont use a headphone.
- Pepoples using cancer avatars with ear rape features.
- Having no way to have a normalizing filter to set everybody's audio output at the same level.
- Peoples using any form of harrassement.
- Peoples being annoying.
- Peoples recklessly interfering in others conversations
- Peoples with a broken/garbage microphone that dont use a noise filtering software and flood you with parasites.
- And of course any combination of the above.

P.S.: Had forgotten a few:
- Peoples who keep their microphone open while eating potato chips or drinking soda and then....
- "peoples" who burp in their microphone. Didnt have the case of one farting or throwing up in his microphone yet, but I wouldnt be surprised if it also happen....
- Peoples who keep talking during the movie in theater worlds (for those who stand in front of the screen, block is the best option).
- And of course peoples you realize have muted you for some reasons.
If they cant ear you, there's no point earing them either (or seeing them altogether, so block).

[Biscuit Kitano]

Muting is the only moderation feature I use outside of the safety settings. To reiterate some of what's already been said, you could argue that there is a bias against certain individuals being muted unfairly. But others will be quick to weigh in with legitimate reasons as to why they would mute someone. Personally, I have a greater respect towards people who use their better judgement, instead of resorting to blocking to solve all their problems, since that's a feature abused more often than not.

[Maneki_Neko]

99% of my mutes are people running on voice activated with crap mic's that have CONSTANT white noise or other background noise and are higher than visitor, with that rank you have friends that should have told you you have a ♥♥♥♥ mic but you for some reason have chosen to annoy TF out of people instead of switching to PTT


other wise the reasons mentioned, i have a habbit of muting , or hiding avatar for annoying full screen animations, if i do both its equal to a block, i dont like making ghosts to annoy me later

[Lebe]

As a guy who plays an ukulele most of my time in game, id say if people mute me or i mute someone, its for a good reason, muting isnt the problem, but like many things in this game, the people are

[AMelodicCat]

Originally posted by Guh~hey~hey~♫:

Easy muting isnt a problem, it's the solution.

Problems are:
- kids screaming their lungs out in their microphone set to the maximum level.
- Peoples forcing their crap music on everybody around
- Peoples with awfull echo/larsen because they dont use a headphone.
- Pepoples using cancer avatars with ear rape features.
- Having no way to have a normalizing filter to set everybody's audio output at the same level.
- Peoples using any form of harrassement.
- Peoples being annoying.
- Peoples recklessly interfering in others conversations
- Peoples with a broken/garbage microphone that dont use a noise filtering software and flood you with parasites.
- And of course any combination of the above.

P.S.: Had forgotten a few:
- Peoples who keep their microphone open while eating potato chips or drinking soda and then....
- "peoples" who burp in their microphone. Didnt have the case of one farting or throwing up in his microphone yet, but I wouldnt be surprised if it also happen....
- Peoples who keep talking during the movie in theater worlds (for those who stand in front of the screen, block is the best option).
- And of course peoples you realize have muted you for some reasons.
If they cant ear you, there's no point earing them either (or seeing them altogether, so block).

Agreed if you go into any FBT Heaven you get nothing but kids screaming, dumb asses screaming racial slurs, coming up to me and harassing me trying to...you know...And i have my mic muted when im just trying to vibe to whatever music someone is playing. If i see one of my friends that join the world and i start talking to them, Im the one that gets muted for no reason. Im not screaming/yelling just having a conversation in a normal voice. Anyone that actually does take the time to get to know me knows im a super chill quiet person because im very much an introvert. *shrugs*

[OPERATOR]

There are alot of people who don't like going outside of their bubble, I won't really comment if its right or wrong for people being trigger happy, its normal though in public worlds, think of it this way though if they instantly mute you and you really didn't do anything "wrong" you're prob better off without them anyway you probably wouldn't have gotten along with them, talk to people who aren't as trigger happy and let them stay in their limited bubble, no skin off your back!

One time I got blocked by a random guy in the pug and he refuses to unblock me because I wouldn't give personal information to him about myself, no skin off my back the creep ain't getting anything that I don't feel comfortable sharing directly from me.

[Snowsnout]

Originally posted by ski_ski06:

Anybody else think muting is a big problem in this game? Its easy to get muted.

I'm mute at night, people i live with hate being waked up by noise.

[Sentionce]

I will generally block the players running around with troll avatars that decide standing between me and the mirror just to sniff me, blow bubbles, scream or start racist, political, sexist or profane bs arguments. However I try to be a forgiving sort and at the end of my vr session i log on to the website and clear all my blocks and mutes so if later the same people show up and try to be chill then they get that chance. Besides you won't always meet the same people in a public lobby too often

[Bunkerotter]

As I'm mostly around in Public worlds, meeting new people and having conversations and discussions. All the above applies.
Most of the time I mute (mostly block) people because they just come to us (having maybe a philosophical discussion) and just be "HEY, HEY, HEY, GIVE ME ATTENTION".
I don't mind if people want to join a conversation, I actually do like that, as I've met many interesting people like that. But do know your manners. If you join a conversation, you listen at first and don't just rudly interrupt.

I don't know what it is these days, but I learned NOT to do things like that as a kid many moons ago.

If you get muted a lot, than it's most likely not the people but your behaviour which causes that. Think about it.

[A. Corvus Kaine]

I mute obnoxious users all the time, if you think it's a problem you're the problem.

[Sentionce]

Originally posted by k u r o y u s h i.:

I mute obnoxious users all the time, if you think it's a problem you're the problem.

No need to be so toxic.

[JohnnyBonny]

I remember going into the pug a long time ago when it was fairly new and seeing a dude sitting at a table my himself I walked over and said “Nice avatar dude is that commissioned?” he proceeded to point his hand and me tell me to ehm...”♥♥♥♥ off” and blocked me for no reason.

If you’re going to be an anti social pile of human garbage then go wallow in an empty private world and hate yourself alone don’t go into a public world and treat people like crap for no reason because you think the earth rotates around your hollow head.

[a bunnii poops]

some people want to be muted XD