u/Big_Pool853

Hi folks! just posting as I'm curious about a sort of grey area here.

I normally have OBS running in the background when I play VRChat mainly for funny moments with friends, or if someone is bothering us, I normally send the recording in as evidence in a VRChat report.

I don't post it on any social media or TikTok or whatever, and most of it is shared in friends Discords or to VRChat or group admins (incase of incidents)

I recently got banned from a group for recording in their group public instance, the group has known me for a while, and I've even clipped some incidents of trolls/people being asshats and sent it to their staff as evidence for their records etc and nobody has mentioned or claimed to have a problem, even thanked me for getting it on camera.

I had a little argument with one of their staff who said "I hate that you record it makes people nervous" explained to him I only do it for me and the other things above, and he was getting super upset about it. I explained to him also that VRChats own report helpdesk asks for any video evidence of incidents, plus any time I've heard any issues brought up with people, the first question is "Any evidence? got a video?"

I was advised by someone a while ago to keep OBS handy just incase there is an incident of a crasher/someone spamming N-word etc in an instance, and report them with the evidence. I don't go around yelling "hey im recording" and I rarely end up clipping anything but if someone crashes the place or is being absolutely horrible to everyone, is it not handy to have it recorded and reported? I normally just block unless its stuff like someone bragging about doxxing other people, gang monkey stuff or as user threatening someone or worse.

I'm just curious on everyone's thoughts on it? I'm a little conflicted a bit on if its the good or bad thing to do

Edit TL:DL - Is recording bad if it's being used to clip malicious behavior for VRC report purposes?

EDIT again: I can see part of the comments in notifications but not all of them? and I'm unable to respond, no idea why :/ but apparently there is a bunch there?

So I am hopping instances, it's a Saturday night and I'm having a great time drinking at Midnight Bar, I notice a bar I've not joined before and I have two friends in there, I stop over to say hi and I am greeted by the bouncer. The conversation goes as follows:

"Hello can I get your age and date of birth?"

"I'm 18+ verified mate"

"You could be a kid, I'm asking just for security reasons"

"I've got the 18+ verification man do I sound like I'm 12 years old?"

Like... I get it but...I'm from the UK, I can go to ANY bar, pub, restaurant club here and they will notice I'm clearly over 18...I have not been ID'd in 10+ years...I have a full grown beard lol

I love VRChat and I love drinking and meeting awesome people but man! people need to respect the 18+ verification, I spent my own money on it and sent my ID in ffs. I did eventually get in, spoke to the owner who said "Yeah some kids can fake it so we do extra checks"

Note: I put flair as discussion? I didn't know what to put flair as. I have posted before about this and it seems to be not only me having this issue :/

EDIT: Spelling and video embed :)

https://reddit.com/link/1t28ekn/video/w5hih1anxtyg1/player