Why even intend to use #lounge anyways? That category is highly dubious because I believe it’s strongly distracting the users from actually developing or discussing development(or anything related). This is not always the case, because sometimes there are intelligent and meaningful topics around that category. If you were to open access to that category, I would expect a massive increase of posts going there and hardly shows any relevance for DevForum, especially in the mind of people who would post for the sake of posting.
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I’ve been running into these problem’s lately, and yet I see other posts I flag don’t get taken down for not being spoken about the topic, and yet when mine is within the topic someone flag’s it and absolutely obliterates my reply, and it’s getting really tiring to see. They need to really fix there flagging system, as right now it is WACK.
Your post got flagged again, so what? It’s annoying at worst. Your post will be reinstated and you’ll (hopefully) move on.
My post just got flagged and locked minutes earlier and it was just for asking about something, not asking for support or help…
So I agree. (ITS THE SECOND TIME THAT I GOT FLAGGED AS WELL)
The devforum In whole has a huge problem. People are using alternative accounts to be able to takedown whole posts without being traceable. A friend of mine had a thing where he discredited something someone said on a post, and every post made after that was flagged over and over for about a week straight. There isn’t anything you can do sadly. The only way for it to be fixed is for Roblox to close the devforum to application only and do a background check on all applicant’s, as well as purging members who have already joined, but we all know that’s out of the ballpark.
Edit: sorry typos on mobile
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This makes it more worst for the Developer Engagement Team, not just limiting the Developer Forum for real developers who wanted to use it in a right way, it’d also put them more stress, think about it, if the automated system was taken down and was replaced with manual application, imagine the tens, hundreds, thousands, or more applications coming for them to read and decide whether to accept or not, and this would just cause them stress and make their job more worst. Not to mention Post Approval was removed because of the increasing members and posts being made, which caused them to get disbanded in the first place.
The better solution for this is that the Developer Engagement Team, is for them to check it more efficiently, if the post was really irrelevant, or breaking the rules, and I’m certain they could check the post being flagged, and they should decide whether to take it down or not.
Nobody’s perfect however and sometimes may end in flaws so, if your post was wrongfully moderated, it’s better to message the @moderators or @DevEngagementTeam.
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Sadly I think this would take too much time, I know that me and you might feel like reporting or flagging a post is a rare occurrence, but to some people, they end up making a report on numerous posts a day, and the influx of new members, reaching almost 10k people, means if only 10% of people were like that and reported 5 posts a day, that would be 5000 posts they have to go through and review. That is a lot and would likely be costly, surely a lot over the budget given to the developer forum portion of Roblox
I’m having the same issue here, I was just telling some guy that their stuff made the game more laggy therefore the models weren’t good and then they started saying that I was an idiot and didn’t know anything about modeling, and they started flagging every reply I made, I’m not sure if there’s even moderation here…
How do you know they’re the ones that flag your post, though? It’s not like your sent a message saying who flagged your post and why (rightfully so).
I completely agree. If someone flags it, whether it breaks the rules or not, it will get taken down not matter what. It really sucks. I’ve had plenty of topics falsely taken down because of one person who decided to be a nitpicker. The only way for it to be immune to flags is for the topic to be popular super fast.
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Agreed. My old friend stopped developing on Roblox because of how horrible the flagging system is.
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I disagree (I am basing the information on the topic title, as the topic is deleted). The post seems to be related to a concern about cheating crowns on the Roblox platform. Developers don’t have influence on giving crowns and aren’t significantly affected.
On top of that, it seems more like a bug report. Generally, topics like these have a high chance of flag approval (based on my daily flagging experience).
As reminder:
• Topics should not be for other concerns
Use #resources to share tutorials or assets. Use #feature-requests and #bug-reports for requesting changes to Roblox or reporting bugs. Use #help-and-feedback for issues with your game or development. Do not provide feedback on the platform here; Roblox will likely not see it, post on a bug report, feature request, or relevant announcement instead. For other issues, please contact Support - Roblox.
The flagging was correct, DET handled correctly, and your topic was indeed out-of-scope. Development Discussion topics may not be related to one person or one question. It’s not a Q&A category.
I don’t know where you based this speculation on? When a post gets flagged, it gets sent to review. DET will always make the final decision. Your posts might become hidden, but once DET approves that nothing’s wrong, your post will become visible again.
DET generally reviews flags within 24 hours.
Yeah, this is indeed true and it’s really strange. When a topic is really popular, they are unlikely to hide it. They just approve your flag and move on. I have only had a few times that a popular topic got taken down when I outlined that the topic was rule-breaking in whole.
Why would your friend stop developing on Roblox because of the flagging system at the DevForum? That’s a bit too extreme, in my opinion.
Two questions I have to all of you:
• What do you think Developer/Development Discussions are?
• Could you provide links to topics that have been taken down without reason (according to you)?
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I have seen it. It’s not a very common practice because it’s tricky to get in the devforum nowadays but yes I have seen it before.
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Most people don’t know this, but how much time it takes for you to get promoted to a member depends on how much time you browse through the DevForum AND your moderation history.
If you’ve never been moderated before, then you should get be promoted in less than a week.
If you’ve been terminate, but got a roll back, then it’ll take you roughly 2 weeks to get promoted.
This is just some extra information I thought would be helpful.
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Where did you find this information? I have never heard anyone say that website moderation affects member promotions.
If they are not doing this yet, they should probably consider it since users who have been banned or terminated on the website can join DevForum and, if they get to Member too quickly, they can spam trash everywhere. It would probably make flagging more efficient if they do this, since only serious developers with little to no previous moderation actions can join.
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I didn’t find the information. Its more on observation. It took me a week to be promoted to a member because I’ve been moderated once before.
My friend got terminated, but then got a roll back. It took him almost a month to get promoted despite how much he browsed the forums.
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Correlation is not causation. There is a hard limit on how many topics/replies you need to read, you guys probably didn’t read enough within the week/month.
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I read for 4 hours every single day while I was a visitor and it still took me weeks.
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Just happend to me litterally 5 minutes ago i posted a topic in #help-and-feedback:scripting-support about needing help making the fps system that i had just made into a tool i go to the tutorial topic that helped me make the system for a minute thinking if i should just ask there instead then i go back to my topic then i see that its been unlisted the topic was asking for SCRIPTING support nothing else i just wanted to know how to make the fps system a tool.
(Sorry for ranting i just had to say that)
Devforum seriously needs to fix there flagging system it said the community flagged it but i dont believe that.
Heres the topic if your intrested (the one that got flagged)
How would i make this a tool? (FPS system) - Help and Feedback / Scripting Support - DevForum | Roblox
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I feel you.
I literally got “Feedback” for supporting one of Roblox’s posts.
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