I’m curious, is there any ingame api for telling if someone has a badge awarded by ROBLOX, such as the bloxxer, veteran, or administrator badge?
I have a game using a lot of user made content, and if someone creates something inappropriate and a mod comes to check it out, I’d like to try having a “Delete” button for that particular content appear for anyone that has the Administrator badge, so then they can easily delete the offending content instead of deleting the whole game. lol
I could do it with a server and httpservice, but I’d much rather use an ingame api.
Thanks.
You can check if they are in the admin-only Roblox group. This is what the player list and chat module use to determine this.
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Thank you sir.
Moderators will more than likely not be in that group (I’m not sure if they have the admin badge either).
@Person299. Even if you did provide them with the ability to delete bad content, they would more than likely shut down the game anyway because it is fostering an unsafe environment. Moderation has taken down UGC games in the past on a case-by-case basis whenever they get rampantly inappropriate. They’re usually unreasonable with their requests too, suggesting that everything require manual approval.
Ultimately there’s not a good solution to your dilemma aside from making some form of automated voting-to-remove or detection feature and hoping that it’s enough to prevent widespread abuse in the game. If worst comes to worst and your game is taken down, you can get in touch with DevRel at that point and allow them to pursue less hostile moderation internally.
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This could lead to interesting ideas (API Changes) where in any game with user-made content could be allowed to be moderated by roblox staff. Like with how we’re supposed to use Roblox’s API to filter chat, we could use their API to allow them to moderate user-made content.
I’d like something like that…
I recall seeing an official statement saying that UGC was fine so long as there were precautions such as moderators & report features in place. Also, yes, any content moderator (the ones that review reports) would most likely not be in the admin group.
I once had a game moderated because someone put up a decal that bypassed the content filters.
You’d think moderating the decal would be more reasonable. lol Especially since roblox themselves published that one gear that lets you put up decals on walls.
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If your game has inappropriate content then your game will most likely be put under review, they’ll highly unlikely join a server and delete the inappropriate content as that would be time-consuming and inefficient.