As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to re-claim older groups taken by bots & terminated accounts.
If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because I have a few groups which I previously abandoned, and I would like to claim back as currently nobody owns them, they’ve been taken by bots which are now terminated, so I would like to claim my group back.
With new changes coming to communities/groups which were announced at RDC this year, I would like to post one feature I would like to request for the future of communities/groups.
It would be nice to be able to re-claim groups/communities whose owner is currently terminated, if you had the ownership atleast once, or you have a high rank in the server.
One of my friends’s groups, Badgers of Robloxia with 60k+ members, is now stuck because his account was terminated. He wanted to give up the ownership of the group after he lost his account, but he is unable to do so. I also have this issue with a group/community, which I have previously abandoned because I had the maximum groups on my account, and I had to make space, so it was taken by some bots. I would like to be able to reclaim this as I have experiences I would like to get back.
I believe a lot of people would like such a feature, as long as the community/group is NOT deleted, and it didn’t break the rules of Roblox, admins, previous owners, and highest rank should have the option to claim them, as they also put work into it.
I would honestly, love this feature, even if it would be paid.
The advantage of this feature, is that big communities would be able to continue and get passed by to a different owner, in case the previous owner breaks the rules of Roblox. If the community itself has no relevance with the reason that the creator was banned for, it should be passed to somebody new which would be able to lead and continue this community.
However, if the community is found to be a part of the reason why the creator was banned, such as raiding, acting inappropriately, stealing & reuploading assets or breaking other rules, I believe that the owner should get terminated and the group should be locked.
I also believe that the option to claim a community/group should only happen after 1-6 months passed after the owner was terminated, depending if the owner was living in one of the countries to which EU laws apply or no.