Heyy, I’m sorry for not knowing how to bring this topic up but since roblox is letting content creators and artists pick their own handle from any account i would like to mention how roblox also censors most of the names of all users who swapped their usernames to something else in the last couple days. Displays like Nick, Cube and Crystal are now censored when trying to change it.
Expected behavior
I feel like these more common usernames like Nick should be uncensored for any other player in the platform. I understand about safety concerns involving content creators but considering fairly used names as being flagged as “inappropriate” shouldn’t be a thing even though its most likely not really a “bug”. Thank you
The real issue here is the staff managing the Star Creator program giving YouTubers popular usernames willy-nilly. They’re obviously oblivious to the fact that this is what happens when a verified user/content creator is granted one of these names. It’s quite obvious the staff granting these usernames have little to no knowledge about the implications this is causing, both in terms of PR and website issues
It’s all because of Star Creators, so this is not a bug. I don’t think Roblox is planning to fix it. They added this update because people were claiming to be them and were stealing their identity. It’s kinda weird, though, because they’re censoring a lot of stuff these days.
Thing is that I don’t think names like that go against the roblox username terms of service. You could argue that it is to go against other people faking being famous youtubers but that isn’t really true. These kind of names should be able to be used by anyone, you can notice that by the community backlash specially in other places
I think this likely is a bug in the system as common display names like “nick”, “cube”, “mud”, “crystal”, and even names like “supreme”, were not originally to be locked behind a singular star creator. I believe these instances of star creators claiming common names (even from active accounts), is an abuse of power that star creators have over regular users. The entire original point of the display name system was to allow users to have commonplace names without needing to change their username, because innactive accounts likely already had the general username in question.
My suggestion:
Roblox needs to be more scrutinous in their process that allows star creators to change their usernames. Unique usernames such as “KreekCraft”, should obviously be allowed as this is a name unique to a specific star creator. Common names like the ones reported above should not be allowed as these are not specific to any star creator and are names used in general. Specifically names like “Supreme” should be unable to be changed to as they are brand names, not the unique name of a star creator.
Unless Roblox decides to open the floodgates to letting everyone change their username (which I doubt will happen), Roblox needs to be a bit more transparent here alongside doing a bit more research before handing things out haphazardly to any star creator. Realistically I’d like to see an easing of the special treatment star creators receive, but I doubt that will happen aswell.
Like others have said, the issue here is users being able to “claim” popular usernames that will get “protected” by Roblox. Roblox cannot fix this unless everyone who “claimed” their “brand” gets rolled back. The funny thing is I said this in a internal Roblox program Discord server hours before this post was made.
What Roblox should do is rollback these “claimed” usernames and instead require brands to present and own a trademark in order to claim a username, if they cannot follow this, they shouldn’t be able to claim it, as simple as that. Star Creators should also not be allowed to “claim” usernames that do not relate to their brand (example: @Supreme, @Nick, etc). Star Creators are abusing having the privilege of being able to “claim” a username.
The only way to prevent misuse of this is to enforce validation on these usernames (of which the teams at Roblox are clearly not doing) or to require a trademark (like literally every other platform requires)
