Numbers should not be filtered because it arbitrary stifles communication way too much.
I was playing a roblox puzzle game where you had to communicate codes to your friends, and I noticed many of my messages that were purely numbers were getting filtered.
I simply couldn’t communicate properly to anyone because arbitrary numbers would get filtered.
Numbers are filtered in chat because they could possibly be PI, such as phone number
welp, guess we can’t have nice things. That sucks
Me I say at least make the filtering system less stupid
Then we can call it a day
It’s not really possible because it literally uses a list of banned words and just checks if the word is equal to another word on the list. IMO the only good way to fix the filter system is using AI-assisted filtering. Like first filter a string using roblox filter system and then run an AI checking system to ensure the filtered word was filtered correctly, if it wasn’t then replace it with the actual string.
They stopped doing that, a very long time ago. It’s very easy to check and see it isn’t just a banned word list: Spamming certain words will eventually lead to a lot of random things getting filtered. And, for a blacklist, it is oddly unreliable for what should just be a text file:
Some time ago, people found Roblox listed as one of the “partners” for Community Sift, as well as people apparently being informed of the transition to it, and it’s seemingly still the chat filter as noted on the Roblox Fandom Wiki.
Its machine model called BERT, they used to have a research paper on their prev research site robloxtechblogs.com, but it was never moved to research.roblox.com.