Hey developers! Basically I have a random string generator, and because its random, filtering out the bad ones is nice. However there is no user that is tied to the random string generator… So How can I filter a string without a userID? (Since TextService:FilterStringAsync() requires a UserID argument)
Any help is much appreciated !
Edit: Turns out you can’t use TextService:FilterStringAsync() in studio, but I need to use something like it, as I’m making a public plugin. Which as the creator, I am technically I’m responsible as the creator of the plugin of what my random string generates. Since I also take User input to, I need some sort of filter
Can’t really call remote events because in my case, it is running on a server plugin script. And again, its not user generated, meaning that the player didn’t make them
I mean I can try, but I assume not from the roblox docs:
From Roblox docs:
“This method currently throws if fromUserId is not online on the current server. We plan to support users who are offline or on a different server in the future”
Well that sucks.
Maybe what you could do is grab a random player in the server and use their UserID?
The thing is that I think <13 users get more filtering when their UserID is used, so maybe try to find a >13 player if possible, otherwise just grab an <13 player?
Though I don’t remember if it’s possible to get if somebody is >13 or not.
My only question with that is Does this count against the player is it filters out a bad result? Like for example lets say my random string generate filtered a bad result. Is this added into a log that a roblox moderator sees against that user, out of context? Not understanding that it wasn’t User generated, If that makes sense?
I don’t think they do this, to prevent abuse.
If you really wanted to, you could try making it filter some pretty harsh stuff on an alt.
I really don’t believe this is the case though, as-in I don’t believe it counts towards moderation.
People would probably seriously abuse it like they did with spoofing/misfiring chatting events to get people banned.
"Random Words - If your experience generates words from random characters and displays them to users, there is a chance that it creates inappropriate words. "
So Uh new issue. It won’t filter out bad results? Because its studio and chat filters don’t work in studio and I forgot about that… so Uh how do I go about this new found issue
Well yea, but the plan is to make this plugin public, meaning that I kinda need a way to filter out results because technically I’m responsible as the creator of the plugin
Well like. It won’t filter at all. I used the output and put in the test string what should be a filter result and it printed without filtered. No errors were outputed because the user was connected to the server as a studio user (aka myself)
