>>388315641
>A crucial question is why players in friend groups seem to be less aggressive than the casual or new players in the public spaces.
It's like the person that wrote this never experienced the internet before social media sanitised every website. This isn't something unique to VRChat at all.

>community-level self-regulating and self-censoring mechanisms
This place? Ha, you wish. Any dickhead can always drop in if a single person can vouch for them, even if they're a troll. Just look at our resident freaks that somehow stay around.
This community is about as open as a public toilet.