Illegal Content Report appeal form fails with "Email Verification Required," but no email verification option is available

When submitting an appeal through the Illegal Content Report appeal form (the form where users enter their Case ID and appeal reason), the submission fails with the message “Email Verification Required.”

However, there is no option or prompt anywhere to verify the email address. As a result, users are unable to submit appeals for Illegal Content Reports.

Since the appeal process is an important user right under the Digital Services Act (DSA), this issue effectively prevents affected users from exercising that right. Please make the appeal form functional again.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Open the Illegal Content Report appeal form.
  2. Enter a valid Case ID.
  3. Fill in the required appeal reason and any other mandatory fields.
  4. Submit the form.
  5. Observe that the form returns “Email Verification Required.”
  6. Notice that there is no available method or prompt to complete email verification, preventing the appeal from being submitted.

For as long as I can remember, submitting an ICR appeal has never required email verification.

I am submitting the appeal from the same Roblox account that originally submitted the initial ICR. My account’s email address is also already verified. Even then, this should not matter…

Expected Behavior:

Users should be able to submit their appeal successfully. If email verification is required, Roblox should provide a working way to verify the email directly from the appeal flow. Otherwise, the unnecessary verification requirement should be removed so users can exercise their DSA appeal rights without being blocked.

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This is still happening. Not surprised that it isn’t fixed yet.

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They may be concerned about whether this could create any legal issues here. However, if we use Discord’s DSA report appeals as an example, they simply let you click a link, and as soon as the page opens, your appeal is automatically submitted so they can review the report again. There is no email verification (since you already provided it when submitting the original report), and you do not even have to explain again why you believe the content is illegal.

This is not legal advice, but just some additional context to show that those additional steps are not necessarily required.

Additionally, I’m 100% sure it never required email verification for ICR appeals before. There is no way to verify your email during the appeal process anyway, so this is clearly a technical issue.

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