Mass Upload of Identical Fake Korblox Bundles Bypassing Moderation

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#1

Certain users are abusing the Roblox marketplace by mass-uploading dozens of 1:1 copies of the Korblox legs as bundles, circumventing moderation through sheer volume and appeals abuse. These are not slightly modified duplicates—they are visually identical clones meant to deceive.

This morning, I personally watched nearly 90% of this group’s fake Korblox bundles get deleted by moderation. However, only a few hours later, they were all back online. This strongly implies that an uneducated appeals agent reinstated them. And because they were reinstated once, they’re now immune to moderation and unreportable, leaving no recourse other than submitting this bug report.

Normally, moderation handles recently uploaded fake Korblox bundles quite well—especially those with few favorites. This is thanks to what I can only assume is the team improving their policies in this area after a recent surge in these kinds of bundles. But when a few slip through and get reinstated by clueless appeals agents, they’re effectively whitelisted forever. This highlights how terrible the moderation system is when it comes to reinstated bundles.

There’s two main issues here:

  1. Why are appeals agents approving bundles that are blatant 1:1 copies of Roblox’s most recognizable asset?
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  2. Why does a single reinstatement make a bundle immune to future moderation, even when it clearly violates Marketplace policy?

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Affected Assets:

These ones are less similar, but fall under the same principle:

Important Note: I’ve been told engineers are working on improving validation in both the Layered Clothing and bundle systems to prevent these kinds of assets from being uploaded in validation. But in the meantime, moderation seriously needs to step up its game. The agents approving these appeals must be disciplined and reminded of the Marketplace Policy they’re supposed to enforce.

If no resolution is given, I might as well file a documentation issue requesting that Roblox remove the line stating user-created items cannot be overly similar to Roblox-made content, because clearly that rule is not being enforced anymore.

Expected behavior

  1. Bundles that closely resemble Korblox—especially those reported here which are nearly identical copies—should be deleted immediately upon detection. These clones blatantly violate marketplace policy and exist solely to mislead buyers.
  2. A successful appeal should not render a bundle immune to future moderation. This is a critical flaw in the current moderation system. From what I’ve observed, other asset types (e.g. clothing, accessories) can be reported again and re-reviewed post-appeal. However, for bundles, once an appeal is accepted, they appear permanently locked from moderation, even if they were reinstated in error. This is likely why we continue to see high-favorite fake bundles remain live—they were appealed once and are now unmoderatable.
  3. Appeals moderators must be retrained on identifying copy assets like these. If training has already occurred, then the moderators who continue to ignore clear policy violations or fail to follow basic enforcement standards should be formally disciplined.

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Bundle Glitch - Lower Legs (and body parts) Become Invisible or Misplaced
#2

A chunk of these have been deleted. Many remain

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#3

The Moderation Team should honestly leave internal notes saying like “Hey, this item is a 1 to 1 copy of this roblox item; (link)”. Or if the item was taken down with AI, that the AI will leave a note on why it thinks it violates the rules if this is possible. This would resolve so many issues

Currently the appeals team seem to accept malicious appeals probably due to no context

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#4

This is what happens when the appeal process is only partially reviewed by a human. Makes sense why things are randomly appealed, but at certain times seem to be violative to the Roblox TOS

#5

Thank you for reaching out. We have assigned this to our internal teams for further review.

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#6

Thanks a lot, starhiker. I can confirm all of the bundles I reported, apart from the last 2-3 were removed a few hours ago!

Much appreciated. I hope the appeals process can be improved here to where moderators don’t reinstate these items any more, and once a bundle is reinstated, it should be easily re-reportable.

Also, I hope the few remaining bundles can be looked into more closely.

Lastly, I have a few more bundles that should be deleted:

Some headless ones that were also appealed and reinstated incorrectly, and are now immune from moderation due to the same issue:

^ Let me know if another bug report is needed for these ones.

Cheers.