Are bomb vests (suicide belts) allowed on roblox?

[osvaldoks1 (osvaldoks)]

I wanted to add bomb vests into my game, so you could run into a person or crowd and kill them if they are within the explosions radius. I already have a grenade that you can cook and its a similar effect, it just doesn’t have a big radius. I’ve been hesitant about making it, because it might break roblox community standards that don’t allow any self-harm (My grenade might also, so that’s why I’m making this thread.

Some games have it, for example Criminality by RVVZ (Raw video):

or this video I found on youtube:

[birbwithseed (birb)]

Yes just probably stray away from the stereotypes about them and make them less detailed. The concept themselves are probably fine

[Daw588]

No, it violates 2 rules from Roblox community standards page:

• Content that glorifies, supports, or depicts instances or methods of suicide or self-harm
• Depictions of or support for terrorist or extremist attacks

Especially bomb vests, they are commonly associated with terrorist attacks, which is a big no no. If you have an item where its purpose is to kill its user, then almost certainly will violate the first rule I referenced.

[osvaldoks1 (osvaldoks)]

Oh, so my grenade shouldn’t violate any rules, since its purpose isn’t to kill the user, but you can kill the user by miscalculating the grenades cook time.

But how come criminality got away with it? They just made it a “admin” weapon that isn’t out for the public.

[Daw588]

@osvaldoks1

but you can kill the user by miscalculating the grenades cook time

Yeah, but that isn’t its purpose as it’s accidental, and in most games you won’t get far by doing that anyway.

@osvaldoks1

But how come criminality got away with it? They just made it a “admin” weapon that isn’t out for the public.

Likely because Roblox moderators haven’t caught on as it’s admin only as you mentioned. I wasn’t even aware of its existence until now.

[EduardZOMBIw (Kopenhag)]

Well, I wanted to say that they’re allowed at first but generally decided to also look through the forum to make sure my opinion is well argumented. As a final answer, yes, Roblox DOES prohibit the use of bomb vests or suicide belts in games, as they are considered sensitive and potentially harmful representations.

As I was looking through the DevForum, I found this topic (you can find it below) which suggests that such content may lead to moderation actions or account bans. For instance, a user reported their game was banned due to the inclusion of a bomb vest, which was flagged under Roblox’s moderation policies
(ignore the title, read the entire article) YOU CAN ALSO FIND THE PARAGRAPH I WANTED YOU TO READ BELOW THE ARTICLE REDIRECTION

My account is banned for "cheating/exploiting" in my own game

One morning i log into Roblox, and im suddenly banned, after like 10 minutes of looking at the ban, i couldn’t belive my eyes, i see the reason is “Cheating and exploiting”, now what i find even more confusing is that (to my understanding) it says i exploited in my own game, i don’t even know how that would even be possible. [bandicam 2023-12-09 22-46-58-815] The next thing i did is i immidiately opened a Roblox support ticket and explained that there was a mistake and i attempted to appeal m…

The paragraph I want you to get to read is:

A few hours later i receive a mail back, the moderator who replied to me, gave me a totally new reason, saying that my game contains “Ultimate Trolling Gui’s” for short “UTG” which the moderator noted him self that those GUI’s contain various trolling/innapropriate functions such as blood, bomb vest, jihad, genocide and more.

[iicloudsforeveriii (cloudy)]

@osvaldoks1

But how come criminality got away with it? They just made it a “admin” weapon that isn’t out for the public.

It isn’t out for the public so it won’t get them into trouble. A suicide vests literal motive is self harm and that’s something Roblox is against. So, you can’t.