Circling back on this at a high level - there appears to be an issue with the filter, as it is restricting things it shouldn’t do in the context of Talent Hub. The team are investigating this issue.
I see a few people are asking questions about safety - in the ideal world, we’d love for people to stick in Talent Hub, as it’s an environment we control, so we can ensure it’s safe. However, I’m also aware we can’t build both a good job finding platform and a communication/collaboration platform. We can have a much bigger impact by focusing on the former and doing it well. This is why we expect users to actually do the work with others off of Talent Hub.
The reason we push initial communication through Talent Hub applications is because it forces a neutral ground between two strangers so that they can communicate in a safer environment, and ensure that they trust each other and want to work together. Even though eventual communication goes somewhere else, this is a great screening process for Creators.
They should remove it and make talent hub not available for players under 13.
I also suggest that only people that are DevForum Members able to access Talent Hub, if only DevForum Members are allowed on Talent Hub, then less scams would happen.
And also if you want to keep chat filter in, for god’s sake fix it. It filters so many normal words and sometimes doesn’t even censor the swear words.
No, not really. For example, every (kinda) developer I know received Talent Hub access, while I haven’t received any form of access (even though my DevForum activity, place visits and DAU is higher than most of them).
I don’t really get the criteria, and I guess it’s just based on randomness or a percentage of the DevForum members (A/B testing).
EDIT: Seemly I’ve been given access now, don’t really know if it was coincidence
The DevForum has no filter and is pretty safe. I get the gist of it, but if Talent Hub is for DevForum users, and DevForum users are mostly trustworthy…
I think the problem is that it needs to be more clear what the overall purpose of the talent hub is. I’m not really saying we need a tutorial, but more of a general expectation of its uses. For me personally, I found the chat filter so annoying that I just linked my Discord to my applicants just to avoid the chat filter. I did not know that was actually expected: to just find applicants and then communicate elsewhere. It can be confusing and frustrating for users to try to communicate with potential applicants with a chat filter that hinders communication. I think it needs to be stated somewhere how the talent hub works, and how developers are encouraged to use it.
Although I did read it in the rules, I think it should be way clearer that communication elsewhere is allowed and in fact encouraged. For example, (I know someone already mentioned this) the word Discord is actually hashtagged which makes it confusing if it’s still allowed or not.
It seems that having discord in my bio is a rule violation, which virtually gives creators like myself the inability to contact others. Messaging people on the site is extremely inefficient as well. I’m not able to send images, and if I mention the word social media or even twitter it gets tagged. It would be useful to have discord as an option under links or even a new tab called “contact” so I could better contact other creators.
Well, the Talent Hub will be open to <13 users unlike the Devforum and that is why it needs a chat filter. A chat filter is also needed because the Talent Hub won’t really be moderated by humans like with the Devforum.
I’m not sure if I’m just misinterpreting it, but the way it is worded (and the fact that Roblox made an article for parents) implies that it may very well be open to users under 13, unless Roblox is just babying 13+ “just in case”. I believe that is why users with PIN can only see verified creators in the first place (intended to be for parental control for safety). I personally don’t agree with it being open to <13, but that calls for a separate feature request.
Just reading through, I think the parental controls are intended for 13-17 year olds currently (anything under 18 makes sense for parental control). I don’t think 13- year olds can access the Talent Hub currently and there doesn’t really seem to be an intent for it considering they allow you to go off-platform after applying. (would be COPPA violation if they let 13- do that)
As others stated, but loosen it up a bit more, when contacting people i want to try and get some more work, game links, etc. Cant do that if it gets tagged, im forced to bring to Discord, and if i dont like them, it is more clutter in my dms there, while here i can deny and it deletes.
Right now you can get people onto Discord via a Talent Hub application (ie tell them to add you on Discord from web chat). As stated previously, we’re working with the right teams to get the chat filtering turned down so that it’s easier to communicate directly within Talent Hub.
DevForum is 13+ and does not have a chat filter, but Talent Hub is only accessible to DevForum members (which are all 13+), so therefore, it shouldn’t have a chat filter, and it also doesn’t need to take COPPA and other children’s privacy laws into consideration.
Even if you are encouraged to communicate elsewhere, that still doesn’t provide a clear reason as to why there is a chat filter, as instead of asking users to switch platforms to communicate via unfiltered chat, they could just communicate in the same platform with no filter (or I’m even fine with a filter that only censors out strong profanity and racial slurs).
Like I said before, the current chat filter has too many positives, and is not benefiting developers.
Finally, I just want to say that I really appreciate the quick replies and responses by the amazing staff on the platform.
