Introducing the Ban API and Alt Account Detection

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#351

Some games take advantage of trolling and glitching, though. I don’t believe those games will prevent alts for most users.
I plan to migrate to BanAPI but use the alt detection as minimally as possible, only as and when I feel it’s absolutely unavoidable, other than that it’s just more convenient to use this system now over the previous. I think it’s better to go on a case by case basis with suspected alt bans.

I don’t believe they’ll be affected too harshly to be absolutely honest with you. Most of the people that make a living that way cover games who are created by people they have behind the scenes deals with nowadays because it makes it easier to create the content they’re looking for. A lot of games don’t typically ban trollers, and those that really cared about trollers alts already had custom alt detection or minimum account age requirements. It’s not like trolling will cease to exist because of this.

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#352

This is such a good update after we waited for so long, I might be able to use this API for one of my games im working on and it is really useful for combatting exploiters and trolls, thank you so much🙏

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#354

It does work buddy, roblox is bad at doing HWID bans lmao, and no IP is not included.

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#355

FINALLY! This has been needed for so long! Nice update!

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#356

I don’t think developers should view players’ IP and/or HWID. That’s likely because of the rules about revealing personal information.

If Roblox decides to give developers the ability to view players’ IP and/or HWID, then there could be horrifying consequences to this, like a game that leaks your IP address, for example.

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#357

TYSM. I have been waiting for this one since it got announced at RDC a while ago.

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#358

Roblox is getting so much better. I was gone for like 2 days, and boom! They have cooked up so much stuff that will benefit me so much.

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#359

I suggest they change it to something like:
“This experience has banned you for 23 hours, 56 minutes. Here’s a message from the experience:”

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#360

Alt account/suspicious accounts detection don’t work for me, I even use Switch Accounts, but I can still join into a game where I’m banned with an alt account. :frowning_face:

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#362

Its 5:11 am I was making an update for my game then I checked my social and saw that barneyhunter12 posted a video about this and i immediately went to devforum

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#363

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get ready to fake being someone’s alt to actually ban him ez

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#364

I can’t tell if it’s fully out yet because I can’t ban or unban anyone on live server, it will yield forever
In studio I can’t get ban history even though I have https access enabled

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#365

any request made in studio will not process to live servers

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#366

This is the only thing I wondered. Would it only detect that specific user’s ip or would it affect others too?

Other than that this is really good, I moderate for a game before and someone was using an alt generator or whatever the hell he called it I forgot. It was a pain to deal with due to how quick he can just get back on the game using different alts with join date from 2010. I hope this type of issues can be dealt with if anyone happen to meet someone with this type of exploit.

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#367

Alt account detection probably takes advantage of a combination of the account’s email/phone, IP addresses, browser cookies, specs, etc. to make a fingerprint and profile each user.

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#368

This is such a great update: cannot wait to try it out!

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#369

i have been waiting for this for like 3 months W roblox

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#370

I’m a bit confused, no matter what duration I set it always says “1 minutes”, I assume it’s because the api is new?

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#371

why are newline characters allowed in ban notes (the prompt scales depending on screen size) but still completely disallowed in kick messages?

note both of these use the exact same ‘reason’:
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kick msg:
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ban note:

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if we could get newlines re-enabled on kick messages, it would be nice :sweat_smile:

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#372

I agree with Daw558 on this matter, banning is supposed to be secure in the first place and sometimes the filter can be a bit restrictive.

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