I need to reconfirm if the alt detection is functional because each exploiter/harasser we ban just shows up in another alt minutes later after we take action.
The only answer I found was that it can be bypassed.
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Not ‘bypassed’, it just doesn’t work in the first place. I’ve tested it myself banning a friend and he just logged into an alt and got in fine, no trickery even needed. I’ve tried contacting the security team about it, they just ignore the issue. Roblox doesn’t seem to really care about security, whether it’s their poorly functioning anti-cheat or non-functioning alt-detection. A real shame that they present these things as ‘solutions’ to real problems when all it accomplishes is misleading developers into a false sense of security.
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Well, this sucks, I had very high hopes for this… 
Hopefully, they can do something about this later on
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Is there any chance that the reason filter could be reduced or removed completely? It very often flags completely appropriate reasons. For example my reason works as long as I do not include a moderator’s username and the date. It could be easily limited to just bad words, third party links etc.
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This was apparently an important distinction to show it hadn’t come from Roblox, see this:
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Yes, but after some time, they also discovered that using Different Origin ips (By creating an account with a different ip), will also not affect, even with the Alt account detection turned on.
Can agree.
Instead of banning the person like saying it was by the creator, they could just simply put something like “By a moderator”, and it wont feel so personal.
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The moderation tab is just suddenly nonexistent?
Edit: Just minutes after sending this the entire platform experienced a “degraded performance” according to their status website. So this will (probably?) be fixed soon.
Edit again: 2 hours later Roblox status is back to normal but still no moderation page 
, I just ended up using a datastore to keep track of it for now.
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Why was the topic about the moderation tab being silently deleted… silently deleted? What is going on?
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/roblox-removed-the-bans-tab-from-the-creator-dashboard/3235634
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In that case they could replace “owner” with “experiences moderation team.”
Example: “You’ve been banned from the experience by its moderation team. Here’s the message they provided:”
First time seeing that post, I believe it was removed because its in the “Development Discussion” category and not the “Bug Reports” category.
Most people can’t make bug reports to begin with so I honestly find it annoying that they just silently took down a potential issue. Could have at least provided a message before locking the thread stating the reason, but ohhhh welllll.
Also still not fixed. No where to be seen.
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Well this is not good timing after I made the decision do a wipe for the bans from my PERMA DEATH game where if you die you get banned. Anyone got a workaround to unban mass amounts of people right now?
You can utilize the Open Cloud API to firstly list all UserRestrictions and then update them by setting active to false.
Is there progress being made on the effectiveness of these bans?
I have the Ban Menu back (when reading this the first time it was also unavailable for me). I have only tested it with the mobile android app version but I assume it is the same system as for PC. I can’t say why it was unavailable but I hope it was just a bug.
Since the alt detection isn’t working, perhaps an alternative system: Optional phone verification requirement for your games.
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cmon man.
local config = {
UserIds = {userId},
Duration = timeconv,
DisplayReason = "You are banned for " .. info.ban_length .. " day(s) for '" .. info.ban_reason,
PrivateReason = privateReason,
ExcludeAltAccounts = not isExploiting,
ApplyToUniverse = true
}
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