Manual Verified Badge System for Group Contributors

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Currently, the Verified Badge is only automatically granted to group owners, leaving co-owners and key developers of team-based experiences without recognition. Automated detection of contributors is impractical, and the pause on granting badges to group contributors has been in place for over eight months with no visible progress. This leaves developers who play significant roles in creating or maintaining an experience without a path to verification, especially in teams that use holder accounts.

With this feature request, I propose a manual Verified Badge request system accessible through the experience dashboard for group-owned games. A new Verified Badge Requests tab, visible only to the group holder, would allow them to submit requests for contributors who have studio access and meet eligibility requirements. The eligibility requirements are as follows:

Automatically checkable criteria:

  • Contributor has had studio access for at least 1 to 3 months
  • Account is at least 1 year old
  • Account is ID verified
  • Account has no recent or significant negative moderation history
  • Experience meets minimum engagement requirements, which could be increased to get access to the manual Verified Badge request system

Manually reviewed criteria:

  • Contributor has a significant and ongoing role in live operations, with a short explanation of responsibilities.

Requests would be submitted by the group owner, marked as pending, and reviewed by Roblox staff. Staff would approve or decline requests, possibly providing a reason if declined. This means it is entirely Roblox staff’s discretion whether a request is accepted or not, even if all the criteria are seemingly met. Approved requests would result in the contributor receiving a Verified Badge.

If, after acceptance, a contributor is found to not be fulfilling the role they claimed in a way that the group owner could have reasonably known about, the group owner can be held accountable for abusing the request system.

This system ensures that only actual owners or key developers receive verification, prevents abuse, and integrates naturally into existing workflows while allowing staff oversight.

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Good idea! As the owner of an experience that has received multiple checkmarks it’s really unfortunate to see my fellow developers around me being unable to receive the same recognition that they deserve.

With a few past features which have been more difficult to add for Roblox without easy benefits such as the ability to move experiences from user accounts to groups during the beta of it they required you to pay Robux for them to do it which I think could be a good idea in this case as well when submitting developers so that it’s something that can have better (and paid) measures by official staff at Roblox.

I believe moving a game used to be 25,000 robux? Maybe it was way more. I forget. But I’d be willing to pay upwards of 100,000 robux for the ability to submit a request to Roblox that would allow them to manually review the criteria of a developer in my group that equally deserves a checkmark.

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I love this idea! Would definitely help out contributors

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I like this idea, would be very cool if it was to be made! i meet the requirements for the verified badge as a group contributor/lead scripter Update on Verified Badges - #996 by adudu21 but i cant receive it as currently the verified badge for group contributors is paused .

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Is this not already the case?

You are an owner of an experience with playtime exceeding 1M hours in the last 90 days.

Or, you are a contributor to such an experience and have at least 10K legitimate followers on Roblox. A legitimate follower is someone who appears to be a real user, as opposed to a bot.

https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/7997207259156-Verified-Badge-FAQ

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No, they had disabled it for contributors due to some group owners selling them.

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I don’t see how this feature request addresses the badge selling issue. It would create more load on Roblox for reading though the requests, and it’s pretty easy to fake. Even if you charge a fee, there will always be crazy people who’d happily spend an extra $350 for a profile badge.

No matter how many checks you do, group contributors would always be the weakest link.

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It’s a very tough topic to tackle, so I do hope eventually they find a way to factually prove a contributor as real or not

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This would definitely make sense for bigger teams. Right now only the owner shows as verified, which doesn’t reflect how most groups actually work. As long as Roblox puts in limits to stop it being abused, I think a contributor verification system would be a solid addition.

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The requirements I outlined are already far stricter than what existed before. My proposal not only puts multiple automated checks in place but also shifts accountability to the group owner. If they’re ever caught handing out badges for money, they can lose the privilege of submitting requests altogether and even get moderated for misuse.

That means fewer people would be able to sell badges, not more. At the same time, legitimate group owners would finally have a way to recognize their co-owners and key developers instead of leaving them without any path to notability.

There aren’t any other solutions that don’t take the option to get the badge away from people who truly deserve it, this feature request attempts to propose one that lets staff decide if the badge should be issued to them or not.

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They could check to see their edit history in games

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This wouldn’t exactly work as a lot of the developers I work with rarely, if ever actually touch Roblox Studio itself whilst also making massive contributions.

Developers such as @coltbarrett112 creates tons of amazing UI for our experience [🎸] Oaklands 🌳 Build, Create, & Tycoon! - Roblox in a separate application called Figma, so not all developers would be able to count towards this edit history.

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