Horizon World reporting misuse by a bully

[SunnyDayQ3]

I have being reported by a bully in Meta Horizon World. The person was using bad language extensively and for long time. When I tried to argue with him, he simply reported me. He stopped his bad behavior at the time of the report, then he left the world.

I am not a native English speaker so I have let myself to be provoked to reply using some og his bad language. So, I have a warning now in my profile. And I am perfectly ok, it was my bad.

However, I am fair and tolerant person, so my question to Meta is:

1/ did the bully get away with his behavior when he reported me and he changed his behavior just for the report?

2/ can bully misuse the reporting system, i.e. can he make a report video and get away from his own violations of the code of conduct, e.g., because Meta is only analysing the reported person and ignoring the audio of the reporter?

[oculusness]

@SunnyDayQ3  just change your username and stop using the toxic meta horizon worlds.  Get on with your life.

[SunnyDayQ3]

@oculusness Actually, Horizon Worlds work surprisingly well 99% of time. I do not need to change my username as I am completely fine. My question is about a technical detail behind the reporting system.

[DaftnDirect]

Yeah I don't visit Worlds so much these days but it always seemed ok for the most part.

So, according to Meta, when someone gets reported, the 'last few minutes' of the audio and video from the interaction will be recorded and included in the report. Not sure how many minutes that is and maybe they want to be a little vague to try and deter the kind of thing you've encountered whereby the reporter knows exactly when to start behaving before pressing the report button so they can trap people into being reported without consequence.

I guess the thing to do is to just to report the person yourself as soon as you've encountered such behaviour, don't reciprocate and don't wait. Can be tough to do but sooner of later, someone who repeatedly behaves that way will have repeated reports made against them.

The other thing you can do is manually record all your sessions from start to finish, I ran into what I'd call a bad actor once and like you, waited too long before hitting report. So for the next couple of weeks, I recorded all my sessions. But that seemed to be a one-off incident and I just stopped bothering to record, haven't run into a problem since but like I say, I don't visit much these days.

[SunnyDayQ3]

Hi, seems like similar case. We are simply not used to toxic people in our life so we are not prepared to deal with it instantly.

Also, there are many kids using bad language and I do not care, because they are just kids not meaning any harm. This one person I have met once was an obvious experienced bully. He knew what to do. That was why I have initiated this topic here. I want to know if they catch themselves into their own report "trap", or the system is so dumb that Meta will punish wrong guys just because the real bad guys knows how to misuse the system.

So, I do not need to know the secrets of the reporting system. I only want to know if the system checks all persons from the report recording or just the reported person. For this, I hope some Meta person can answer yes/no. No details.

[DaftnDirect]

When Meta says the audio and video is recorded, I assume that’s taken from the reporter’s headset, timed from the moment the report button is pressed going back in time.

I doubt they take multiple headset recordings on the bases that the audio would be largely identical and the video, although from different perspectives, probably wouldn’t show anything additional.

There’s also probably a permissions thing, when you submit a report, you’re basically agreeing to your headset recording being evaluated by Meta, you’re not able to give that agreement for the other people’s headsets, It’s up to them to do their own report.

Other than that, I don’t think Meta have the resources to question everyone… or anyone even, they probably just take a Quick Look at the submitted report video.

This is all just my assumption though. Whether Meta would like to add anything to this, I don’t know. They may not want to go into any more detail in case they clue up the problem people.

Anyway, yeah lots of kids. When I do visit, I tend to stick to the 18+ worlds. They tend to be more self moderated and generally calm.

[SunnyDayQ3]

I do not expect Meta is taking records from multiple headsets. Reporter's record is all they need. All voices are recorded in each headsets. Also, I doubt the analysis is done by people. They for sure use automated voice analysis, or even an AI.

My question to Meta is simple. Do they the analysis for the reported voice only, or for all voices from the single recording. 

[DaftnDirect]

The recordings don’t pick out or filter anyone’s voice, that would make the process useless. It must include all sound.