Introducing the Ban API and Alt Account Detection

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#434

I agree, is there any way to even unban a player that has been infinitely banned?

#435

uhm they talk about that in guidelines…

#436

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Issue appears to be fixed :slight_smile:

#437

Surprisingly, yes.
game.Players:UnbanAsync()

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#438

Not sure what RDC promised, from what I remember they just said there was going to be some sort of detection. No examples

#439

Thank god! This is long awaited, and the fact they’ve shipped this WITH OpenCloud is just the icing on the cake!

WE’RE HUNGRY FOR FEATURES ROBLOX!

#440

I wasnt expecting there to be a method to unban so pleasant surprise, i guess.

#441

Why wouldn’t that be a thing? The first thing developers are gonna do is test it by banning themselves and then what? Realize their banned forever and can no longer play / develop their own games lol

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#442

“as we expand this API we’ll be able to integrate our own alt account detection into this API so if you ban someone once they come back or better put they’re not coming back.”

Seems like a promise to me.
A promise that’s poorly held, because I can ban my main and come back and play the game as if I was never banned on an alt.

#443

Does it ban the user from the MAC address?

#444

as we expand this api

this is still in beta bud

#445

Is everyone meat riding a globally traded company this hard now of days?

#446

no but its in beta still soooo

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#447

We will see with time.
I doubt it gets any better though.

#448

Hi everyone! We have heard your feedback on the behavior between the DisplayReason and text filtering. Please know the team is actively reading your feedback and coming up with a solution that will create a better experience. We hope to share our thoughts soon.

On another note, I hope to address all unanswered questions soon. It will be a little tough given that (as of the time of writing) there are 426 comments, but I will do my very best.

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#449

Thanks for the transparency. Most developer-sided text in Roblox is not filtered so it doesn’t make much sense that the DisplayReason is. Here’s a line up of what people want and don’t want.

  • Remove any mention of the creator in the message. Sometimes they don’t do it directly and I could see it leading to be harassment to the creator.

  • Maybe let developers show the time themselves? I feel like sometimes you don’t exactly want the person to know how much time. Possibly can be made a bool param to the function.

  • PLEASE don’t allow the creator of the game to be banned, it makes no sense.

  • Even if you keep the filter in the long run, don’t flat out fail the request and instead just show a default message / pound signs

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#450

While you can use alt accounts to test this new ban api, some developers like me appreciate the ability to actually ban ourselves as long as we can unban ourselves atleast from studio.

A plus side of just banning ourselves instead of an alt account is that we have access to developer console to check for prints / errors in game (assuming your game is a solo project with no team members)

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#451

I’m still wondering if this bans off mac addresses.

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#452

I think its IP or device your playing on

#453

Banned users should lose access to rate experiences & denying the user’s join (as many mentioned) via the site/app showing as if the game was private would be nice too.

How does support redirect users to the developers appealing bans for 13< players that don’t have access to social links where appealing is done?

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