A Call for Quality Control: Rethinking Promotion Campaigns

Hello, my name is Rosefall and I believe promotion campaigns are problematic because they enable any creator to just buy a top spot and have their avatar featured at the top of it's respective category, without having to pass any kind of quality assurance checks or meet any kind industry standards.

Here's why:

1. It disencourages content creators from investing time and effort into creating decent content because anybody can achieve overnight success through a paid promotion campaign rather than by focusing on the quality of their work.

2. It's potentially detrimental to the global state of VRChat because it can significantly accelerate the spread of content that is low quality or otherwise harmful to the platform.

3. It's unfair because it allows less skilled creators to artificially boost low(er) quality content to the top and drown out the work of talented creators, who may end up feeling discouraged as they may feel that their hard work is not being rewarded.

To address the problems above I proppose the following solutions to be implemented:

1. Replace the 'Promotion Campaigns' with 'Curated Content', the spotlight should be given to those who deserve it, not those who pay for it. This will benefit VRChat and it's communities as a whole while also being much more fair because it favors equality of opportunity over equality of outcome. And it should be easy to implement because it can re-use parts of the infrastructure developed for paid promotions.

2. Implement quality control measures, at least for promoted content. Kitbashers and low skill content creators should not be able to promote $45 avatars with horrible performance metrics, such as 1 million active triangles, upwards of 2000 physbone collision checks, etc. These products are harfmul to the global state of VRChat as they have substantial negative impact on the experience of users who come in contact with them, even on high-end hardware.

Additionally Jinxxy could allow it's customers to mark specific items, tags and content creators as "Not Interesting/Not Relevant", some people may not like particular art styles or creators, they should have the ability to prevent these items they deem irrelevant or not interesting from being displayed to them, which would benefit just about everybody who uses Jinxxy.

Thank you for taking the time to read my suggestion, please let me know what you think in the comments below, and if you share my vision and would like to see these changes implemented let the people at Jinxxy know by upvoting this post.