Are GUI Textbox Input automatically moderated?

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#1

Hello, I have a small question, am I required to have a censor service for my GUI’s textbox, or will it automatically censor?

I have a textbox that sends the given input into a separate text label, will the text be automatically moderated, or do I need to implement that in myself? If so, how?

#2

Hi there. You are not required to, depending on the situation, but keep in mind that Roblox does not automatically censor the input. Consider using TextService to utilize Roblox’s filtering system.

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#3

What are you doing with the input text? Depending on what you’re doing with it, you may or may not need to filter it.

#4

The text label will be seen by others, it’s like an advertisement kind of thing, people can input text and it’ll be shown on screens throughout the Workspace. I assume it’ll require censoring and by extension, TextService, right?

#5

Okay. Then, I would highly suggest filtering it using TextService. Would you like me to give a demonstration?

#6

If you’d like to, that’d be great!

#7

Alrighty.

local txt -- the input text
local userid -- the userid of the player that sent the input


Filtered = game:GetService("TextService"):FilterStringAsync(txt, userid):GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync()
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#8

I see, thank you very much for your assistance!