I’ve seen many posts in #development-discussion being moderated in tremendous speeds, and unfairly, all because some people are so obsessed with mass flagging post that it has become a nuisance in extreme levels. I believe that the DevForum is disciplined enough, to manually review each flagged post, due to low demand (I hope so). I Roblox is taking my post into consideration, and start doing something about all of this hectic situation.
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This already happens. All flags on the DevForum are reviewed by real, human moderators.
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Are these quickly moderated posts in the room with us?
If anything I’m seeing the complete opposite, with many posts being either left up or even needing "Something Else"s to point out the rules (because apparently the mods often forget them)
I have the feeling you’re just making this post because some rule breaking post of yours got taken down. I have yet to see a single post like this from anyone who was objectively within the rules.
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I’m not so sure about this: I’ve had a post more recently be removed for spam, more specifically being a duplicate of an existing post. The removal message did not provide the post that it was a duplicate of. When I contacted Roblox support about this (as forum moderators do not reply for comment), I was provided with a post from months before discussing a similar topic (albeit very broadly). My post in particular was about manipulative marketing methods and the post I was linked to was about distaste for devhunts, which is an entirely different aspect of the recent Roblox events.
I find it hard to believe that a human being could have looked at these two posts and made a connection other than the very broad connection of them both discussing recent Roblox events. I’ve had another post speculating on Roblox events receive a large amount of appraisal despite having the same broad connection to the aformentioned post that my post was “too similar to.” This post was largely positive and I feel in some way my more recent post was removed just because it portrayed the upcoming event in a somewhat negative light.
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Forum moderation responds to flags from community members according to the forum rules. The flags are made by forum users (not moderation team). All flags are reviewed by humans.
There’s no incentive for this team to hide critical posts as long as they don’t break our forum rules, and that’s also not aligned with how we think about community engagement as a company.
If you feel you have an example showing otherwise feel free to send me a private message about it and I can take a look.
All flagged posts are already reviewed by real humans in our forum moderation team. We don’t employ any automated decision making there currently.
I recommend phrasing feature requests posts as problem statements rather than proposed solutions, this faciliates the best kind of discussions to solve problems.
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I’ve noticed posts in Development Discussion have a much higher likelyhood of being deleted. I’m not exactly sure of the reasoning for this other than people flagging every single thread that gets posted there.
No other category has this issue, so whats happening with Dev Discussion?
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I did notice and can agree this catagory became a nightmare in the past few years. I noticed that a topic can completely not be related to development but it will stay up because it is a big thread moderators probably won’t read through everything (I am not calling out anyone here)
I also noticed that moderators not really want to takedown posts when reported unless you flag them for moderator attention, flagging them for either off-topic, inappropriate or spam doesn’t do much anymore even when it is harassment but since you can’t flag posts twice it is kinda bad. I don’t know if this recently got better though
This is likely due to the simplified guidelines of the #development-discussion catagory that basically says “The post should be either a discussion or related to developers” but since there are already way too old posts to report on this catagory it’s kinda too late and it will stay like this. This issue also kinda occours because the #lounge catagory being locked to Regular+ it seems like
In other note, i noticed that sometimes moderators don’t takedown bad stuff and when trying to report it just errors “We already reviewed the post and determined that it cannot be flagged again” forcing to file a DSA Report. This doesn’t happen alot but it can happen which is the issue
Not trying to call-out anyone but i just randomly noticed this