Changes to Thumbnail/Icon System

I feel like this wouldn’t be a problem if you guys had a little more faith in your users instead of punishing everyone for the misconducts of a small bunch that slip through moderation. I make this argument under the assumption that this is a way to combat inappropriate content.

That’s not our fault.

This is a problem that stems from the ineffective design of our webpages- primarily the front page for games and individual game pages. For example: You guys got rid of the comment section, reasonably so, but didn’t offer a replacement to something that could have been crucial for promoting higher quality games and not the clickbait junk.

People have suggested a feature similar to Steam’s review system since 2015 (keyword ‘Steam Review’ in search)

To my knowledge, we have heard nothing from the web team addressing this issue. Correct me if I’m wrong.

I think we have a right to be angry because you guys expect us to be civilized people who won’t abuse the creative freedoms this site has to offer, but you don’t provide us effective tools that empower us to help you get rid of the junk that other users maliciously publish. All we get is a report button who for god knows if it actually works. If people don’t think it works, then they aren’t going to use it. Very ineffective. It’s the same mentality with people who don’t vote, because they don’t think that their single vote is going to make a difference. I’m sure we are well aware of how problematic that is on its own.

Y’all just need to put a little more faith in your users. I’m sure most of us here are willing, we just need better tools to inform you that someone is publishing content unsuitable for ROBLOX. Something like a review system is going to help us help you promote higher quality games (assuming front page has a sorting for it) and push trashy, inappropriate games to the back. Auto generated thumbnails/icons is not something we needed. Why are we getting things we don’t need when we aren’t hearing about things we actually need?

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