By the partially blocked text, I’m guessing that is the no-no word, did they bypass it? I swear the DevForums had a mild filter in place already
I thought they did too, but that person either bypassed it by using other characters or that word wasn’t filtered in the first place.
The person probably bypassed it but when I saw the post, it didn’t look like it, so they probably used special characters. The posts were only up for twenty minutes before the moderators came in and deleted them.
Thankfully, engineers won’t have to waste their time. Discourse provides a built-in filter which allows you to add as many words as you want. If you post a reply/topic wity any of these words, you’ll automatically be notified and asked to remove them. Do you remember the character minimum bypasses? This is how they were censored.
The only con is that users are notified before posting so they’re indirectly encouraged to use bypasses.
I’d also like to remind you that person that wanted their account on Roblox deleted spammed stuff across Development Discussion. Staff did not react quickly (as usually, based on your claims).
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I think this is only a small percentage of the dev forum community, and that small percentage usually just get banned in the end, but I guess this feature would be okay to have
I actually agree with this, let’s not use the justification that “DET will take it down anyway”. I would actually not like to see these at all, imagine how offensive the word is to someone who’s a part of the group of people who the word is being targetted towards.
Though no filter is perfect, there are many great alternative features forum users have suggested to attenuate such behavior. I’m still in favor of making the forum more difficult to get into
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I agree with the more difficult to access part, but I’m not sure how to feel about a censoring system, we all know that whoever posts that with malicious intent is just looking for a punishment, the forum is composed of users that are 13+ only, your first reaction should be flagging these replies or posts. Plus, as someone else already mentioned, moderation here is quick, that’s what matters in the end.
However if one day, a group of people decides to raid the forum, Roblox could work on a temporary toggle on/off censoring system, so bypassing is fought or a set of stricter requirements is enabled to perform actions on the forum for a certain amount of time, while moderators hunt down the malicious group of users.
I’m sure no one wants to see this place become the forum that was once on the website, we shouldn’t ruin it for everyone just because a group of people has to be social rejects.
I don’t understand, why people waste their time sitting next to their computer and waiting until they get accepted and get kicked, what’s the point?
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Hol up, thats my post
i dont know why people do that
what do you mean it was your post
edit: wait nevermind i understand what ur saying
i made that post you linked to
no one asked me to say that tho
this post radiates soy
p.s. how often does that happen anyway i’ve been on this forum regularly since 2017 and never even seen any case of this happening, even if it does it will be flagged and/or removed lightning fast
talk about people getting offended for others smh
Just because you personally haven’t seen this does not mean the issue is non-existent.
Yes, posts are removed lightning fast, but they still need to be flagged and it can take time (although this is uncommon) before they’re removed. Having to view these posts at all is just inconvenient and degrading of the experience because we shouldn’t need to see this content in the first place. Racial slurs have nothing to do with development and are solely used to offend people in an attempt to get banned, so I don’t see why they shouldn’t be filtered out.
I don’t see soy anywhere. I see people who want a cleaner forum so they can actually use it as a forum, rather than a playground to sit playing flag simulator.
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if someones just trying to get banned they’re going to find more and more ways to get banned, possibly going beyond just simple racial slurs to whatever is the worst thing you can imagine seeing
this will just create a loop of more and more things being censored to the point where the devforum is going to have a word whitelist instead of blacklist, no thanks
welcome to the internet, a place where not everything is always sunshine and rainbow
FYI, comments like this is also racism and also inappropriate for this forum.
okay okay shh man i edited it ):
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People will certainly find other ways of getting banned, you’re right, but I still see no reason why racial slurs shouldn’t be filtered regardless. They cannot be used in any developmental context and they are literally only used to try to offend people, so I see no reason why they should be unfiltered.
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yeah man all i was trying to say is that either way people will find ways to avoid it, and that it happens so rarely that it seems like this was an artificially created post, you know in the style of certain people on twitter finding pointless stuff to complain about
so filtered or not, basically nothing will change in the end
The reason why this topic was even created was because someone spammed racial slurs in #development-discussion and #help-and-feedback:scripting-support while this topic was being created, and it has nothing to do with Twitter or any other social media platform. There have also been many incidents in the past where people have used racial slurs and we just want to prevent anything like this from happening again on the DevForum.
I don’t think anyone would use a racial slur as an example, they would probably use names for the word without typing the full word such as “the N-Word”.
This is correct. I was in a #development-discussion post when the offensive reply came up, and it got flagged within 45 seconds. I have never seen any post get flagged that quickly. Within twenty minutes, the account got deleted.
Even though these posts get removed very quickly, it is best to prevent the problem in the first place by censoring offensive words.
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So you want the devforums to be a racial slur infested website and swearing convention? Elaborate what you mean by ‘nah’ lol
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