You bring up a very legitimate point I believe most are missing. Sure Roblox would like to say they have a bunch of extra players and engagement, sure that looks nice on paper, but they are likely losing tens of thousands of dollars in maintenance costs due to servers being full of bots, and this is excluding all the money they spend on Dev-Ex for botted numbers. You couldn’t be more correct.
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petabyte CPU LOL
also what are “server farms”? i’ve never heard about them before
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You could also refer to them as idle farms. It’s where a bot hoster(s) has a bunch of bot accounts idle in private or public servers farming items. They then collect said items and sell them for actual currency, and they indeed can become profitable (TF2: Nobody’s Home, Zesty Jesus) (click the hyperlink for more info).
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lol i think roblox never dies or else…?
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Some things you can’t prevent, and I believe this wouldn’t even be good anyway even if this was feasible. The end user should reserve the right to interact with the program of Roblox anyway that any standard human would be able to anyway, like reading the screen.
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Kicking any new account still doesn’t help the situation, because whenever you kick players out it will lower your games retention/conversion analytics and average session time metrics, which will all effect your place in the discoverability algorithms for recommendations/searches, especially if you are kicking 100’s of players per hour and they can still dislike/downvote your game after being kicked.
If roblox refuses to allow IP/hardware bans, they really just need to ask for email or phone number verification for any new roblox account to be created, that way people can’t just can’t spam new accounts with random names/passwords and no accountability. That should be a simple and common sense fix, so I’m not sure why it’s still not being implemented.
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This is very cool! It will prevent many exploits and many annoying things!
Not to get us too far off track, but I imagine the SEC investigation may (finally) reignite this exploiting/botting prevention effort once more.
Now that it’s been a few weeks, are there any firm, specific steps that Roblox is taking to address exploiting and botting since this original post?
A bit late but the crosswood incident was huge so they had to step in, also the vulnerability that was exploited in the crosswood incident was actually found by roblox in 2016. And people tweeted at roblox countless times about the vulnerability, but roblox really just never cared because they didn’t think anyone would find or use it. Until of course someone did.
what qualifies as “abnormal behavior”?
lately users have been getting banned for spamming after saying gg at the end of an in-game round. is this the result of these new features being used experimentally?
whenever roblox says they are gonna use AI for something its uncommon for it to be a good thing, AI is still VERY far from perfect and often leads to issues, especially with moderation.
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Everyone at the SEC is being fired, so it’s very doubtful that will ever happen in the next 4 years. 
does bloxstrap enter the blacklist, or is just banneable?
Cheating and bottling seems to have reached fever pitch - will only imagine it’ll get worse as we approach the North American Summer. I wonder where this lies in terms of priority?
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Now that you’ve pointed this out it is likely developers are going to be working to disable telemetry/reports. Cheat developers do look on these posts.
It’s free to create an experience and check the errors instead of looking for endless forum posts.
unless used in malicious ways, no.
this smells like fake news, especially with that bot account of yours, but i would need to see some proof of someone getting banned for saying gg lol. im guessing they actually got banned for spamming, then they just said it was for the gg portion lol.
first off are you trolling right now lol, ive been on this forum for years dont call me a bot if your not gonna actually look at my profile.
secondly you will find tons of ban examples on a lot of media sites not just the dev forum you just have to go and find it, its not unreasonable for something absurd like gg to lead to false bans considering the reputation of roblox moderation.
so basically source : trust me bro
im not telling you to trust me I’m telling you to go and see for yourself.