This is the exact thing I’ve been waiting to see for the PAST FOUR MONTHS. What happened exactly? In two games that I haven’t updated for roughly two months or more since that time, I was banned for 3 days (twice) because of “inappropriate strings” inside a game that YOU CANNOT PLAY. Seriously?
And to make it even worse, I’ve contacted the appeals team those same two times, and they’ve REFUSED to tell me what the string in question was. You simply can’t just outright ban a user for ANY amount of time because they have a vulgar reference inside their code that the public cannot see under any circumstance. It even applies to ACRONYMS that would mean entirely different things!
My suggestion? If you’re gonna take a look at somebody else’s code, you have absolutely no rights to terminate or ban the user for X amount of time. You say we’re human, yes? And us humans make mistakes, yes? Then let us FIX our mistakes by TELLING us what the string in question is, and only a WARNING at best.
What is the point of this really? And why say this just now when this was a thing months ago? Of course nobody is trusting this ‘specially-trained’ team.
While there is no reason to obfuscate code, some people use it for good intentions to attempt to hide precious code. Will all obfuscated codes be automatically deemed malicious?
Everyone else already mentioned that the developer(s) is/are the only one(s) who will be able to see the code. Making this even more redundant.
If an exploiter comes across a bad word, they’re exploiting which is already against the rules. Was this update made to protect exploiters?
Aaaaand API keys. The fact that they can at least see them is concerning. Whether or not they will actually use them is a different story. I don’t care who is being assigned to see my code. I don’t want anyone, not even moderators, seeing it.
I completely agree. I don’t want some random admin from a “specially-trained” team seeing my code. If a “rogue admin” gets an API key, well, we all know what happens then.
What if a member from that “specially-trained” team gets fired/quits and starts leaking peoples code, You never know. This is why i am heavily against this update and considering quitting Roblox.
My point exactly! If a rogue admin decides to find a bunch of API keys and save them, they can quit or be fired, and then they can sell the keys, or use them.
I’m kinda confused, I recently went through and emptied my old places out. I found an old place back from 2014 and found a custom filtering script with multiple cursing words in it, I haven’t been moderated. It’s possible this could only be for public games, but either way it is still confusing because our audience can’t see our scripts.
Question: By the “discriminatory language” does that means your script can get removed for even including mild swearing? I don’t think anyone would include personal information over a script by the way.
Also, will this affect old/unupdated games out there?
True, I think we’re all exhausted and anxious because we’re unsure of how this is affecting older places and the future of this platform. I’m mainly concerned if old places that are private (hidden) from the public are still going to be moderated.
Think about it as soon as it gets exploited somehow in some way then exploiters are going to have scripts and its going to be a mess of copies of game and all of that mess!
