Rule 16, is currently one of the highest punishment rules on the forum, resulting in instant termination from the forums in the event of breaching it.
I personally would prefer if this rule could be changed, to be in a similar manor to the NSFW rules, with 2 strikes for an unintentional breach and 3 for an intentional.
Why?
The only category locked from members is the lounge, and in all honesty, lounge is one of the least informative / important categories on the forum, yet if someone were to repost a picture, of say a cat, that they found within lounge. they would be risk at a permanent suspension from the forums. a punishment I donât really feel is fair given how undamaging and simply stupid the infraction is.
Is it really fair to treat users, reposting a picture of a cat in the same way as a user deliberately posting NSFW content around the forum?
By this logic, we couldnât even take a picture of a discussion or cool creations post and text it to a friend.
Actually, if we were to be really nitpick. Even stating categories such as forum feedback exists outside of private categories could be a breach.
The rule in general is a nightmare the way it is currently worded, it literally blanket bans the mentioning of the categories / anything in the categories outside of the categories.
If we were to be reasonable and realistic, the chances of me being banned for saying the name of a post in lounge is honestly negligible, but its the fact there is the potential for this to happen that scares me.
I ask you to review all the times that rule was used, when and how; when youâve violated and not.
It is not that the rule is strict but the usage of said rule is not what you believe it to be. There are many ârulesâ which are never enforced or not enforced enough.
I still think it would be appreciate for the rule to be reworded in a less, one could say intimidating way. There is not really a reason for having such a seemingly strict rule when it is rarely enforced as it is stated.
As I stated, I had never seen the rule enforced, yet the nature of the rule was concerning. especially since it covers categories I would imagine to be commonly shared in private conversations. such as cool creations.
The thing is, leaking is 99% of the time intentional. Letâs say you hired someone to work on your game and then they told everyone the upcoming update info, despite you wanting it to be a secret. You would probably get very mad at them and fire them. Itâs similar here: if you post something from a category others canât see, then you get kicked off the forum. Though if you try to link a topic from say, lounge, when a new member tried to click it, itâll give an error message, which is Robloxâs attempt to stop the problem. I think rule 16 should be as strong as it is, as it is a huge trust loser.
Itâs still leaking? If you blur the line, something one person may believe should be kept secret may not match what another person believes should be kept secret; and everyone looses.
No sympathy for anyone who leaks; they deserve 3 strikes on the spot as they cannot be trusted with anything.
Being realistic however, is anyone realistically going to care if they post a google image of a cat, then that gets reposted in another catagory? if you can give me a good reason why that would harm anyone, then I back down from my argument. but as I said its similar to NSFW. if no intentional harm was caused. the punishment doesnât feel necessary.
For example, if you wanted to show your friend scriptonâs cool driving AI, we theoretically could not do that without breaking the rules.
Just copy the url of the post in a private category and let discourse do the rest. Problem solved.
Thereâs more to the story than whatâs on the surface. We enforce professionalism on the forum and the lounge is âŚ(I think you know what I mean) and Roblox is a serious company.
The forum is officially maintained by Roblox, so if someone happened to leak something that can hurt the reputation of Roblox, thatâs the best way to punish that person.
To avoid all possible scenarios, itâs better to generally prohibit sharing the contents of the private categories.
I agree that it should be less severe but itâs mostly about trusting that a picture/information wouldnât be leaked no matter how severe it is or isnât.
Outside of Roblox, Iâve read a lot of blogs made by haters hating iconic people because of really simple things to the point it reached a huge audience. I canât tell if there are people out there that hate Roblox and if the same scenario would apply, but Iâm pretty sure there are/it would.
Take this as an example, several media platforms that manipulate news to make Roblox look bad.
I think the main point of the rule is to avoid general drama and controversy. No leaks = Nothing to make drama about
as I said, unless it is intentionally causing harm / obviously causing harm. it should not really be classed on the same standard as intentional posting of NSFW content.
I kinds get rail workâs point of it not mattering about the rule but the ruling. However I still feel it should be made obvious about the specifics of the rule.
I agree that harmless or unintended leaks from the private sections should be less severe. Maybe only 1 or 2 strikes. It wouldnât make sense to be permanently removed from the Roblox forums by re-posting a harmless picture someone posted in lounge that came straight out of google images.
I understand that you can manipulate things people said to make them sound worse, so I think it should still get a punishment, but less severe.
