Stop posting screenshots of RBXdev posts outside this forum. It’s unprofessional. This is a private forum for a reason. The news we post here is for you to see while you’re here. The conversations are for you to read and reply to while you’re here. The rest of the Internet is not supposed to know what goes on here.
Can I ask why? I just don’t personally see the reason.
Uh oh, RbxDevTips is in trouble.
Because oftentimes, this community is provided with information that is not officially released or fully complete yet, which means it is more likely to change before all ROBLOX players are notified about it. While making this information available makes sense for developers that may have to prepare their places in advance or for testing purposes, it’s not very fair to the rest of the community on the chance of providing potentially inaccurate/incomplete information.
As Becky mentioned, it’s also about professionalism. This isn’t a public forum. Anything that’s meant to be completely public, will be officially relayed to everyone via our official channels. Imagine if you had a planned update leaked for your popular place, which suddenly scores of players became super excited about, but then for technical, logistic, etc. reasons you were unable to follow through on that update as it was initially planned. Instead of being able to focus on what’s awesome in the actual update, you might have scores of players disappointed by information that was never intended for full official release.
We want everyone to know about cool updates and things to come, but we do request that you exercise discretion as a part of being in this community, and allow our communications team to do their job to the fullest.
Does this also include telling the public about updates (Ex: anything in the Updates subforum) like saying “Player Points will become per game rather than universal” rather than using a screenshot, or do we wait for admins to tell the public?
[strike]Is this just for updates or is this for all posts? Sometimes I’ll send screenshots of funny posts to twitter.[/strike]
EDIT: That’s a stupid question.
[quote] Is this just for updates or is this for all posts? Sometimes I’ll send screenshots of funny posts to twitter.
I guess I should stop doing that? [/quote]
Given that that post only contains content you wrote I’d argue that’s fine because it’s hardly different from you posing the question to twitter directly.
Where screenshots contain posts from other people I’d be more careful.
I have 2 questions.
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Would you not like us to screenshot posts found in the lounge that are about polls and such that aren’t related to Roblox updates and that are just for fun?
Ie)
https://twitter.com/VexedlyRBLX/status/512357946705993728 -
Is it fine to post elsewhere your OWN replies to topics? If not I would just type it up somewhere else if I wanted to post it, but it wouldn’t look as pretty.
Ie)
https://twitter.com/TheAmazemanRBLX/status/502519746903154688
[quote] I have 2 questions.
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Would you not like us to screenshot posts found in the lounge that are about polls and such that aren’t related to Roblox updates and that are just for fun?
Ie)
https://twitter.com/VexedlyRBLX/status/512357946705993728 -
Is it fine to post elsewhere your OWN replies to topics? If not I would just type it up somewhere else if I wanted to post it, but it wouldn’t look as pretty.
Ie)
https://twitter.com/TheAmazemanRBLX/status/502519746903154688 [/quote]
I think that all screenshots are illegal.
I don’t think there should be any special cases for screenshots. If there were then people would end up pushing the envelope and looking for loopholes.
I am on board with this, but I feel that a lot of the threads posted in the Updates forum should be public to all, not just the select group of developers who are invited to RbxDev.
For example, the Script Analysis tool - ROBLOX staff have not conveyed any of the information about the feature to users outside RbxDev, even though the feature is live. I’ve been running the RbxDevTips twitter account for the last few months to keep people informed about updates, because the client, web, and studio teams haven’t done a great job of that. While the change log is helpful, a one-sentence snippet doesn’t provide enough information about new features.
For example, Studio API access - it was turned on live on production, and there was an RbxDev post, but no one outside of RbxDev knows anything about it.
In the future I will try to remember to refrain from posting any information about future or hypothetical updates, and only post information if the update is live on roblox.com.
[quote] I am on board with this, but I feel that a lot of the threads posted in the Updates forum should be public to all, not just the select group of developers who are invited to RbxDev.
For example, the Script Analysis tool - ROBLOX staff have not conveyed any of the information about the feature to users outside RbxDev, even though the feature is live. I’ve been running the RbxDevTips twitter account for the last few months to keep people informed about updates, because the client, web, and studio teams haven’t done a great job of that. While the change log is helpful, a one-sentence snippet doesn’t provide enough information about new features.
For example, Studio API access - it was turned on live on production, and there was an RbxDev post, but no one outside of RbxDev knows anything about it.
In the future I will try to remember to refrain from posting any information about future or hypothetical updates, and only post information if the update is live on roblox.com. [/quote]
Not to mention the unintentional divide between this walled off community and every other game developer using roblox who isn’t on this forum.
The word “developer” has become an exclusive title to attain in many eyes, and the promo material being published isn’t helping.
I still don’t quite understand who’s allowed here and who isn’t. Especially when the flood gates were wide open at one point.
People ask what it takes and honestly I don’t know what to tell them.
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I’ll admit I did this two times,
First time : I took a screenshot of Madattak’s profile pic to show a friend of mine whos in EBR because he was looking for ideas in a certain genre.
Second time : I took a screenshot of the image in my thread a few weeks ago to show to my friend who hasn’t been on roblox in a few months what some of the updates where that have not made it into the blog or that I couldn’t find in the blog.
Sorry, didn’t know this was against the rules, will not happen again.
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Screenshotting is against the rules, is copy/pasting not allowed too?
(I have friends outside of RBXDev who should of made it in here LONG before me, and they want to know whats going on in terms of updates)
I’m just gonna share my two cents on this.
Usually when you work for a big game developer, license a game engine etc, you have to sign a non-disclosure agreement, which in layman’s terms states that you’re not allowed to disclose certain information about what goes on there etc, else you will be faced with legal action.
I know this is true with game engines in some cases in regards to the pricing, specifically with Valve’s source engine, the price is negotiated by contacting Valve personally and I know you have to sign a non-disclosure agreement else you will not be granted a license or be disclosed with the price.
The same sort of thing (I assume at least) goes on with most game studios (including ROBLOX I presume) where employees are required, as part of their contract, to sign a same or similar agreement where if broken, voids their contract and so-forth their job.
Of course ROBLOX can’t issue all of us with non-disclosure agreements so they trust our judgement and whatnot as to not disclose the stuff that goes on here, and I imagine what we do get to see is only a fraction of what the devs actually have in store for us.
Take my words with a grain of salt though, as I have no actual experience with non-disclosure agreements, this is all from word of mouth and personal research, but all the same I feel it has some meaning.
[quote] Screenshotting is against the rules, is copy/pasting not allowed too?
(I have friends outside of RBXDev who should of made it in here LONG before me, and they want to know whats going on in terms of updates) [/quote]
I’d assume that it’s not allowed, purely on the basis that I don’t think they’re disallowing us to screenshot on the premise that they don’t want other people to see our avatars or the white background.
If you think someone should be here then you should suggest them (on whichever forum that’s now on).
I don’t understand how some people find this difficult to understand.
Private Forum = Private Information
If the person was not accepted onto the forum, they don’t need to know what’s happening on the forum. When I have a meeting with the leadership in my Boy Scout troop, we don’t go blab about everything that happened. We keep some material, especially that which is sensitive, to ourselves after the meeting.
This is exactly what we’re going for.
This is exactly what we’re going for.[/quote]
So if someone says something funny we can’t screenshot it, I understand? Or do we just have to sort of use our own judgement…