Can we ensure Community resources/tutorials are of a good quality

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#4

I think that it would be difficult and controversial to have somebody deciding which are of “good” quality. Ultimately, I think that (like many other things on this forum) the bar would eventually be dropped so low that it would be irrelevant anyway.

What would be useful for some of these sections would be some sort of voting or rating system, on both topics and replies. In addition to the problem that you have described here, there are presently way too many low-quality, poor, or straight up wrong replies in the support sections.

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#5

There used to be a bar, decided by staff about what resources were good quality and which weren’t. It didn’t work out because, at the end of the day, it’ll always be opinionated.

If you don’t think one meets the quality criteria you’re looking for, DM them or post a reply about it politely about what changes / improvements you’d suggest. If you don’t think it meets the quality threshold for the DevForum or Category, you should flag it as spam.

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#6

Make sure to give people (polite) feedback in replies on their posts whenever you think they can be improved (and how) / are not fit for the category, that way them / other people can see that those things should not be posted going forward.

You can also flag off-topic / very low effort topics.

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What's Your Opinion On the Removal of Post Approval For the Resources Category?
#7

I feel we should have some sort of criteria tho, for what is classed as a ‘very low effort’ topic in this category, or some sort of basis that we can say that this post simply isn’t good enough.

#8

There are, in the Official Rules of the Roblox Developer Forums.

Anything additional for Community Resources is just superficial and will be heavily subjective. If a post isn’t good, you can contact the user about it - or alternatively, not read it.

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#9

Post approval is removed from every category except #platform-feedback (If I remember). Causing that members start posting low quality threads, however, giving feedback and ideas for those users to create better quality posts would be a great idea. It’s good to see users trying to help the community, I feel that it’s not necessary to post something unique, it’s not necessary to avoid creating topics that are supposed to have the same content as a page of the developer hub, as I said, they are trying to help. The point of this reply is that we need to give feedback and ideas for posting in the #resources category instead of reporting.

#10

Update:

The change to allow Members to freely post in post approval (which im assuming based on what im seeing) is painful, Please can these two categories go back to Post Approval, some of the resources / tutorials being produced are obnoxiously low quality.

#11

I personally haven’t seen a terribly large number of bad posts. We’re doing our best to close out unsuited or inappropriate topics as they appear - you can just ignore locked topics.

Please flag obviously off-topic or inadequate threads in Resources.

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#12

Its not like the posts in question actually break rules tho, its just that what they re teaching is so specific and low quality its basically spam.

For example a tutorial on how to make a part look like glass.

#13

Can Post Approval please be put back on #resources. I can’t find any good quality resources by other developers because they are flooded with tutorials on how to change the size or some other studio basics which I already know of.

Nine posts (no offense to the posters) had to be locked for not complying with the guidelines of the category. And that list is going to grow. The only response is “flag it”, which I have done, but why not prevent these posts in the first place.

Edit: people are misinterpreting my reply as a personal attack or as a callout or as an attempt to humiliate. This was never my goal. This would have been impossible if public moderation wasn’t being done, so take your pick.

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#14

I was also going to suggest this, but I’m not sure what’s really suitable for our forum at the moment for me to suggest.

  • The PA team is currently dealing with backlog/a lot of requests
  • The PA team added new team members recently, so we’re not expecting new team members anytime soon(or are we :thinking:)
  • Any changes made recently was done to reduce the load on the PA team

So I guess this is what we’ll have to work with for now while the situation improves.

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#15

Post approval was removed on discussion. Post approval is removed for bugs in #platform-feedback. With the volume of low-quality tutorials I think putting #resources back on PA is worth it.

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#16

12 posts were moved out for being off-topic.

#25

As one of the authors of the posts you’ve listed I weirdly agree with you. My post isn’t a topic that complies with the guidelines of the category, nor would it comply with any guidelines to any category.

I even asked the individual who locked it where it should be posted, and they did not know.

I think the issue you are highlighting is a gap or grey area in the categories of the DevForum.

DevForum is the only place for Roblox related discussion yet it limits itself to development discussion.

To say that Protecting your Roblox account is a discussion not worthy of the community would be naive, but it is not a discussion that currently fits in with the forum.

#26

Not sure if that is correct, afaik there is also a subreddit for Roblox. You could put general discussion on Roblox there if you are not a Regular. It’s maybe not an official place managed by Roblox but it does let you discuss Roblox outside of the scope of development.

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#27

That is true that it could be used for more general discussion but I think it’s fair to say that a Roblox-managed platform should be able to encapsulate all Roblox discussion that is pertinent to the community. Maybe we have different ideas of what the forum should include.

#28

Why? This is the Developer Forum, it should mainly be used by developers and contain content for developers.

It’s true that the line between a user being a player or a developer is very vague (Roblox excels at converting players into developers naturally) but I don’t think this has to extend to the content here. Something is either about development or not.

#29

There is not really much point having a lounge category for members and a lounge category for regulars, and even when I was a member I respected the lunge category was regular exclusive. its a good place to have off topic discussions without spammy or aggressive posts.

Remember members can now reply in discussion without post approval - so if you want to discuss more roblox related issues thats always a good place to discuss them.

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#30

I noticed that relatively low-quality community resources are still a thing (I don’t mean offense to new members).

I do have suggestion, though this might require a change to Discourse:

What-if rather than showing the topics with the latest activity, instead show the topics with, say, the most likes gained within the past few days?

Something like that might help keep high-quality posts on top.

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#31

I hate to bump this, however in the past week or so I have personally noticed this become an even larger issue and now i’m on the breaking point.

Id be surprised if 40% of posts made in the category actually stay up,

It has become the garbage bin of the forum, with every other post being either crap, irrelevant or completely against the category whatsoever.

Now I know the argument, ‘Just flag the post’ But the only way this problem will be solved is pulling it out by the roots, and having seen people repeatedly make posts not worthy of the catagory, it is evident flagging these posts is not having a longer term affect.

At this point I honestly don’t care what the solution is, but the way the catagory currently is is not working for anyone.

sorry if this post seems like a a rant (it kind of is) but i’m honestly just sick of every time I open the forum seeing crap posting in a catagory that was once my favourite.

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