I banned myself and I can’t unban myself. 
Time to explore the API, I thought there’s a Ban History UI
Will the APIs will be enabled in Studio or will there be an alternative way to unban users? Encountered an issue where my account would be banned in a production environment and not able to unban from a studio one. Also, with the alt account detection making it impossible to join on an alt to unban the user this would be extremely helpful.
Unless I’ve missed something, the only workaround at present seems to be unbanning via the Open Cloud API.
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I think it’d be helpful if the ban message was actually shown on the experience details page for the user. Right now there’s no indication that you’re banned, not even the play button is disabled.
Also, you shouldn’t be able to downvote an experience if you’re banned from it. I was really hoping that banning a user would prevent that.
Previous systems of immediately kicking users to prevent them from joining was never a good solution because they will just downvote the game. And if you were around on Roblox long enough to remember Personal Building Servers, they’d always get spammed with unfair downvotes from griefers getting banned.
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Exploiters are absolutely COOKED.
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ALT detection doesn’t seem to work for me (new account & account switcher), I assume this is in some sort of tracking mode and will be activated soon?
What steps did you take to get to your ALT?
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Exactly one day after me publishing my ban module.
When the banning API was announced at RDC, I put my ban module on hold but since it never came, I have now completed it.
Great timing 
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Would be nice if the ban reason was on the game’s page instead of appearing after they join the game:
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14 years too late but im glad to see it, this is gonna be a banger for people that dont want to put kohls admin in and have minimal scripting knowledge.
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holy moly, amazing update. I was so excited for this back in February. Ban API and hopefully a new UI update this month? Roblox is crazyy
The API looks good, it would be better tho if it could be used in the studio environment rather than skipping the request, it’s a good way to learn how it works / debug it afterall
It appears that regardless of my report on the topic of the alt detection, the false negatives are overwhelmingly alarming over the false positives. In fact, I haven’t received a single false positives because every alt is a false negative.
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thank you so much for releasing this and with opencloud support upon release i love you roblox 
pls do more good things like this
I think should just not be included, it makes no sense as no other method does that. Filtering text should be developer’s responsibility (using the appropriate text filter API). Developer may not want to filter text that they believe is safe.
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For UnbanAsync, the ApplyToUniverse field is required (unlike BanAsync). However, the documentation states that it is optional:
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I agree, the filter often censors completely innocent text. Leaving it up to the developer will prevent a bunch of headaches.
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Yeah. If you hardcoded reasons, there is no reason to filter it since you already done it yourself. As for dynamic messages written by moderators, that should be developer’s responsibility to run it through text filter before supplying it into the ban async method, just like custom chat. Hopefully this is reverted before this behavior is relied on.
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I’m curious how this handles having been logged into a couple of friends’ accounts before. If I had done something bad on another account and had gotten banned from an experience, would my friends (who had done nothing wrong, and own their accounts) be banned too? I know Roblox tracks every IP address that has ever accessed an account ever.
That’s huge! Finally an actual ban api for the release instead of having to rely on the old basic kick command.
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YES AT LAST! 
We might be able to stop maintaining our ban database and just let Roblox handle it.
Now just hoping that the open cloud api’s rate limits are good enough so that our Discord Bot can continue to provide information on player bans. 
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