My game (Legends of the Aether: Amnisica - Roblox) has been censoring players nonsensically for a few weeks or even months now. Oddly enough, the only way for them to reset the censor is to chat something like “Israel” or “Palestine” - though I’m presuming other words would also meet whatever threshold is being required here. I have no idea why this would be happening.
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Roblox filter seems to just start censoring everything for the next 10 seconds randomly. It even happened to me after I just joined the game.
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I’m experiencing a similar issue where it filters all of my messages for absolutely no reason until I don’t chat at all for a few seconds, then lets me chat.
What in the world- how does stuff like this even happen???
What did you expect; this is Roblox after all.
Yeah Roblox filter is funky, it acts out here and there. This “act out” is pretty bad though.
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I personally call it the “Tag Curse”, ever since me and my friends will randomly experience it since last year
I’m also wondering how !clear works
There have been multiple bug reports for this issue, it started happening since around Dec 2024 and only got so much worse recently. I share the sentiment too.
Why is Roblox not addressing this? The third bug report already got 80 likes which is quite a lot. Second one got 21 likes which is also a lot. First one got 11 likes and this got 7 likes in 6 hours. All got a lot of comments and activity. This all proofs that this is a high severity bug that affects a lot of people, or actually affects everyone. When is it going to be fixed?
It’s funny how this poorly made filter goes filtering innocent messages while bypasses like “SYBAU” which is a acronym bypass of “Shut your bitch ass up” is allowed… A bug report has been made about this too:-
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My default filter reset is “roblox pizza party” oddly enough, though “/clear” is more commonly used and less disruptive when roleplaying.
I mention it in my post, but it’s to do with Roblox stringing all your chat messages together:
This is also uncertain, but seems to be true:
The Roblox filter only keeps the last unfinished “sentence” in its “chat context”.
This means, when you use punctuation, it seems like the Roblox filter decides you’ve started a new sentence and basically “resets” from there. So, I’ve never seen people use !clear, but I have seen people use ; this is my new message. Both of these messages start with punctuation, so if you’ve typed previous messages like:
hello how are you oh ok lol amazing
And then you send a message like
! this is my new message
This will be the chat context:
hello how are you oh ok lol amazing ! this is my new message
And because there’s an exclamation point now, the previous chat context which was causing filtering problems for you is erased, because the “!” ends the previous sentence. This is what the filtering system will see now:
this is my new message
Compared to if you didn’t put the exclamation point and only typed “this is my new message”:
hello how are you oh ok lol amazing this is my new message
And as you can see, if you had chat history which the filtering system thought was bad, even by ACCIDENT, it’s going to stay there for a while until it leaves the context window, giving you the hashtag curse.
Again, this is all speculative, and I cannot confirm it to be absolutely true, and I haven’t tried this on ! but I am very aware that ; cures curses. What I do know is that it’s a massive problem for games in general, but especially in a game like Word Bomb where the typing box should absolutely NOT be treated as chat history because it is NOT a chat box!!! It can feel like everyone is ALWAYS cursed before I implemented a hardcoded feature where it types ; before your messages for you because the chat is simply not useable without it.
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