Using RoVer is helpful for tracing back harmful discord users to your game, so if you need to ban them from your game, you can do that without a problem. It helps to make sure that people aren’t impersonating other Roblox users.
It also helps to make sure that there isn’t raiders in your server who don’t use Roblox at all.
(Trust me on this last one, I’ve had this happen.)
So far, it’s been extremely helpful in all these cases to the Administrators and Moderators of the Roblox Odyssey discord server.
It’s as helpful as the name suggests, for verifying Roblox users.
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Why would someone with malicious intent that would care about being banned from your game use their real account when verifying for RoVer? My friend has it hooked up to a random alt he has, and I’ve seen many others doing the same.
Raiders in your server who don’t use Roblox at all are an edge case, and yes I’ve had them before. Banning and turning on 10 minute in extreme cases will solve your problems.
I know the purpose to verify Roblox users, I just don’t see any practical reason to.
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It’s better to not have raiders in the first place then to get them and then ban them 20 minutes later, which is the most case.
Most users who have been malicious in our server were toxic by nature and their personality, not usually going in our server to solely bring about malicious intent.
While I do see your point, I still do hold mine.
Also, you really shouldn’t be so mad about this, it’s not like it really effects you in anyway negative, and usually it automatically sets you up so you don’t have to waste your time on it.
I’d rather not keep arguing about this, it’s really dumb. (im also going to sleep)
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Cool tutorial!
It’s weird seeing how many people can’t figure out how to manage a discord server, so this’ll be a help 
Although apparently this category is supposed to be for things directly relating to Roblox development?
(This is from having my punctuation tutorial (apos’trophe’s misu’sed in game’s lol’s, etc.) moved because it wasn’t directly to do with development)
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Appreciate the appreciation. And yeah I understand that this section should be mainly for Roblox development but what is more important as a Roblox developer than public relations? Having a functioning + well run discord server is very good for community engagement and ALMOST a necessity in this day and age.
True but Discord is also officially dead to Roblox so… yeah
I could also argue the same rough idea with my tutorial - it’s helping developers have text in/around their games be more professional and make sense.
I would strongly disagree. DevForum discord, QA Discord, Featued Games Discord, Roblox (yes unofficial) discord, the list goes on. Discord is FAR from dead to Roblox. In addition, some of the largest discord servers EVER are Roblox related ones. I believe @berezaa’s has somewhere around 70,000 and we just passed 52,000 members in the Jailbreak discord. I think all told, RoVer has somewhere around 300,000 accounts verified.
I eventually want to put together a whole PR/Community Engagement tutorial/package thing. It’s a super important part of being a game developer that not many people make efficient use of.
Yes, however like I said openly using Discord on the platform is not allowed. Stats like that mean nothing in the face of moderation issues to do with children.
(Also I do believe the Tutorials category is open to everyone, so you’d want to be careful with what you put in it when it comes to potentially harmful services like Discord)
And my second argument still stands. Being able to write in your game is important too.
Either way I guess we need clarification
Yeah true. It kinda sucks that I won’t be able to link this tutorial anywhere on the Roblox platform. However, I am glad the devforum exists to allow me to be able to teach the mysterious ways of effective server management to people 
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Great guide Sean! Will start implementing some changes as a result of reading this!
One quick question:
Is it sensible/realistic to Age verify moderators? Is it “Roblox” legal to do so?
i.e. ask for a photo of Drivers Licence or other valid form of ID?
What would be a realistic age cutoff? 16? 18?
The issue we have is that as a business we may face criticism for putting young people in the “firing line” of hate and inappropriate content. What’s are peoples thoughts on the matter? I’m not sure if a solid answer exists at the moment.
All the best - Steve
So, usually that’s what I use interviews for. Sometimes on the application I ask for an age range. Usually like “13-14, 15-16, 17-18, etc.” then use the interview to verify by the sound of their voice it’s not super accurate but you can usually tell a young kid who lied about their age vs. someone older.
I never ask about personal information aside from their first name and that’s always optional. The only reason I ask for a first name is just to allow myself to get to know them a bit better and actually refer to them by name when applicable.
I personally don’t usually care about the age of my moderators. As long as they are willing and able to do their job correctly and effieicnently it’s all good. That being said, the average age of my moderators is like 15.
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It’s not realistic at all, especially if your game is even a little popular. Assume all your members are at least 13, the required age by Discord, and have NOTHING that a 13 year old shouldn’t be able to see.
You didn’t imply this, but as an example that infuriates me to no end and makes me question the morals and intentions of the people behind the servers that do this, don’t put NSFW channels is any sense or form in Roblox discords.
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Voice Id, I like it aha. To be fair you are right, I can make a fairly good judgement based on their responses and voice.
End of day their performance is all that matters, it’s just from a PR standpoint beyond the walls of the platform that i’m concerned about. Newspaper Title “Roblox developers use children to handle abusive content” doesn’t really go down that well in my eyes. Just being extra cautious as always
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i also just updated my response too!
Yep! This is why I try to stay away from public voice channels, memes/images channels, etc. there is too much bad stuff people can post or say.
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I get what you mean, but just personally I’m fine with those. I have good active admins that I trust online at all times. I can’t live without my memes about my own game 
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there are definitely exceptions. Servers like Jailbreak and Island Royale public voice channels are super unrealistic just because of the large number of server members and relatively small number of moderators. In Jailbreak we have something around 53,000 members and less than 15 mods.
Text channels like memes/art/images are a bit more realistic since they are easier to moderate.
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Sorry Kampfkarren,
There appears to be a slight misunderstanding. We have absolutely no intention or want of inappropriate content in any of our communication channels. To ensure this we are exploring the option of creating a volunteer moderation team. However we do not think it is sensible to include young persons in this team. This is because it would be the teams responsibility to find/detect the inappropriate content and remove it. Hope this clears things up, sorry!
My mistake, I thought you meant a verification of members!
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And that’s we’re good bot setup comes in too! The Dyno automod is quite good and are releasing a new form of banned words soon. You’ll be able to not only wildcard filter but also exact word filter. Dyno can also catch links, invites, spam, etc. it can’t catch everything but if you set up your moderation bot correctly it can take a huge load off of your moderators!
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