26.1.0.20139269477 - Second Life Project Voice Moderation

Release Notes

Second Life Voice Moderation Alpha

Have you heard? We’re adding Voice moderation along with hosting our own WebRTC voice solution! Land owners will soon be able to moderate voice users on their own land. This Alpha viewer will have very limited availability, but we’d love for the community to try it out and give us feedback early.

How can you help?

The Second Life Project Voice Moderation viewer introduces the ability to moderate spatial voice chat in regions configured to use webRTC voice.

Who can moderate:

• Region owners and estate managers can moderate voice on parcels configured to use the region voice channel (‘Restrict Voice to this parcel’ disabled)
• Parcel owners can moderate voice on parcels configured to use their own parcel voice channel (‘Restrict Voice to this parcel’ enabled)
• If a parcel is owned by a group and uses its own voice channel, any group member with the ‘Moderate Group Chat’ ability can moderate

How to moderate:

• Go to the location you wish to moderate, and ensure you are connected to spatial voice
• Open the ‘Conversations’ floater, and right click on any username in the ‘Nearby chat’ list. If you have moderation ability, the ‘Moderation options’ menu will appear
• Select the appropriate moderation action, which might include:
  • Mute everyone: mute all avatars connected to the spatial voice channel. Note that this setting is ‘sticky’: late-joining avatars will also be muted.
  • Unmute everyone: unmute all avatars connected to the spatial voice channel, so that they may speak if they wish.
  • Mute this participant: mute the selected avatar
  • Unmute this participant: unmute the selected avatar

Where to test moderation:

Moderation can currently be tested on any webRTC-enabled region, which currently means any region on the ‘Second Life Preflight’ channel.

For those who don’t have a webRTC-enabled region that they have powers over, some public test parcels have been set up at https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/WebRTC%20Voice%201/114/225/23

The two parcels are owned by a publicly joinable group, which has been configured to allow for any member to moderate voice chat. Both parcels are configured to use their own parcel voice channel. Click the green orb for instructions. The main parcel in ‘WebRTC Voice 1’ uses the region channel, and can only be moderated by the region owner or an estate manager.

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