Inability to Verify Text Filtering Functionality

[Bobytoeburrito (Innovator)]

As a Roblox developer, it is currently impossible to verify whether or not text filtering has been successfully implemented without knowingly sending explicit text. Doing so jeopardizes the developer’s account, and not properly implementing text filtering can lead to moderation. Either way, it is a gamble for developers who want to implement text filtering. If this issue is addressed, it would help prevent moderation against individuals with good intent and help developers ensure that their games are correctly following the terms of service.

[boatbomber (Zack_Ovits)]

Duplicate of:

Text Filter APIs should perform basic rudimentary filtering in Studio

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to know if your filtering implementations work correctly. Text does not filter in Studio (so that Roblox doesn’t have to expose their backend for filtering, presumably), which means there’s no way to tell if you implemented it right without booting up the game on a real server. Roblox should perform very basic text filtering (e.g. common swear words or niche phrases like “FILTERME”) so that developers can more quickly know if they’re using text fi…

Tangential to:

Add support for text filtering in plugins

As a Roblox developer, it is impossible to create a plugin that offers safe communication between developers because Studio does not run any filtering when using FilterStringAsync. For context, I’ve created a plugin that allows users to write messages to each other (think Google Docs style comments), but because Studio has no way to filter text, this means users are able to freely post any message that would normally be censored. If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would allow me to co…

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