In order to combat clickbait games, Roblox should automatically place games under review if they have more than a certain amount of people playing and a certain ratio of likes/dislikes.
I have read some threads here before about how this may encourage botting of dislikes, but I doubt this would work if the ratio required for auto review was low (e.g <40%)
The top game on the games page right now has a rating of just over 20%
Slightly further down is another game with well under 40% approval:
In this case, these games are fairly harmless clickbait but should still be reviewed and taken down if they are misleading.
More usefully, a low rated game could flag that the game is inappropriate in some way and automatically putting it under review seems like a sensible idea.
I’m iffy on this because what’s to stop bad actors from mass downvoting games with bots/alts. I think the sort algorithm should hide the game if it detects frequent name and icon changes.
The first game was called “Parkour” and was using Minecraft thumbnails when I saw it last night. Reported it, but still no action taken against it. There definitely needs to be a much quicker response to these games whenever they pop up, because they usually stay up for days at a time.
I’m gonna take a wild guess and assume moderation is done chronologically. It would be nice if reports for assets/games that reached more users received priority in the moderation queue. If this is already the case, something is seriously wrong.
I’m with you, here. Automated systems are a recipe for disaster, esp. for something which requires as little attention as curating clickbait on the front page.
These games are low-effort, but they’re not clickbait. And here’s an unpopular opinion: the volcano one was fun.
They changed the thumbnail/description a number of times, so if you got into an old server you’ll likely be playing a completely different game, and they also claimed to give “Mega VIP” for subscribers on youtube.
