Can't post on the roblox forums for another 2 years

  • Describe the bug. Describe what is happening when the bug occurs. Describe what you would normally expect to occur.

Forums telling me “To help prevent spam, new users can’t post to the forums for 16800 hours after signup. Please come back later.”

  • How often does the bug happen (Everytime/sometimes/rarely)? What are the steps that reproduce the bug? Please list them in very high detail. Provide simple example places that exhibit the bug and provide description of what you believe should be the behavior.

I just decided to go onto the forums, and was greeted by this lovely message:

  • Where does the bug happen (www, gametest, etc) Is it level-specific? Is it game specific? Please post a link to the place that exhibits the issue.

https://forum.roblox.com/Forum/AddPost.aspx?ForumID=35 & all other forum post places

  • When did the bug start happening? If we can tie it to a specific release that helps us figure out what we broke.

Last night into this morning, as I was foruming fine earlier today.

  • Anything else that you would want to know about the bug if it were your job to find and fix it.

Did someone alter the floodcheck to mitigate spam and make a typo?

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This is intentional, there was a raid earlier by a twitch streamer and hundreds of fans flooded the forums on alts.

It will be reverted at some point.

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Yeah I read up on the situation, but wow. Over 70% of the accounts on roblox were made after 2015, and now none of them can post because of a few people.

Why not just increase the floodcheck per post?

Going to an extreme when dealing with internet trolls is just going to end up provoking more trolls, I just don’t want this to be a regular thing every time the forums get spammed.

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I think a lot of people are actually pretty ok with this update. 700 days exactly is pretty specific, though. Why do you have that message and not some other message that says 450 hours, since you’re actually less than three weeks from being 700 days old?

Everybody under the limit sees 16800 hours regardless of how close they are, for some reason.

I like the nonchalant “Please come back later.” message even though it lasts for 2 years.

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On the up side, the Roblox forums are less toxic right now :stuck_out_tongue:

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It’s hilarious that it shows it in hours.

They could just make it 1 week. That would be great. Most people still on after a week will stick around longer (I think). I’m sure they’ve got analytics to adjust that properly though.

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I want to see what the forums would look like if they upped it to 500 weeks.

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i may be the minority, but i really love this idea :joy:

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I wouldn’t mind if it didn’t affect me :c

you dont got any ancient accounts?

This is now affecting my group because they rely on the forum to get votes for elections and such.

Yeah I was using Acmic in the meantime.

This limit has been removed though, so everyone can post again :smiley:

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