From what I understand, the “Official Roblox STAR Video Creators” serves as a program to verify Roblox youtubers in order to prevent people from impersonating them and targeting gullible users, however I believe it was implemented totally wrong, which I’ll break down in the following points:
Limited target audience
The idea to verify well-known users in the community is of course a great one, however limiting it only users who produce Roblox-related youtube videos is confusing, as it doesn’t address the issue at all. Well-known users will be impersonated, that doesn’t stand just for youtubers, but many people in the community, such as developers, traders, whatever you could think of.
Instead of creating a verification system solely for Roblox youtubers, I believe it should be expanded out to include other users, such as top developers and the like.
Star icon
I’d like to start of this point by just saying that the idea of having a star icon displayed on in-game leaderboards is just disruptive and a sign of elitism, and personally I would completely remove that feature from any game I owned.
Other than being disruptive, the icon itself doesn’t solve the simple issue that most of the people who fall for impersonators aren’t, to begin with, either old enough to make a decision based on a star or, to be blunt, don’t have the mental capacity to do so, that isn’t even considering that a lot of people just simply close their leaderstats for the duration of the time they’re in a game.
Lets say you are impersonating a user, chatting away in-game to someone who for some reason honestly believes you. Now what? To really get anywhere, you’d need to take the conversation to or off the Roblox website.
How could this be implemented better?
I’ve whipped up an example where there is a small, non-intrusive icon located on a users profile page.
Examples
Now, I am no artist, but this is the jist of my idea. Not intrusive, and only displayed to those who navigate to their profile, not to those who are just playing a game.
Members & elitism
I’m not trying to target anyone, however, while some of the members may have pretty big youtube channels, the fact can’t be denied that some of them create content which violates the Roblox TOS, or is just straight up clickbait, not going to specifically point anyone out because I don’t want to target them.
The developer forum was rebranded to prevent the sense of elitism and actually create a community, however having a group of like 15 big youtubers is just going to shout it out loudly, especially when, as mentioned above, some of them have created content which other users would have straight up been banned for.
I’d just like to point out that I do support the idea of having big-shots verified, however I believe it should be rebranded and looked at over, because honestly, who in the world wants a bunch of people to be lording a symbol of status in their games?
I’d love to hear your thoughts.
