Roblox Please Patch Your AI Moderation

Sorry for the short-tempered and subjective title, but I’m genuinely frustrated with how Roblox Moderation handled my situation. If you’re unfamiliar with my case, I would appreciate if you could take your time browsing this before continuing:
AI moderation terminated my account over a shirt while similar items remain on the marketplace - Help and Feedback / Platform Usage Support - Developer Forum | Roblox

Long story short, after sending 2 appeals and 8 follow-ups over the course of 20 days and still not receiving any responses, I decided to try my luck again by sending a third appeal regarding my appeal, just to receive this:

Are you serious? In every single appeal and follow-up submitted, I’ve mentioned at least once regarding the reason for my ban is most likely due to the shirt that I have created with an explanation of my intention and why I believe it was a false ban. 20 days to notify that the shirt was the reason for my ban? WOW, very helpful indeed! (Sarcasm intended as already known.)

Some might say that the image was not suitable for this platform and the ban might be deserving – Okay I have already thought about that before too. I’m not going to turn a blind eye to it, regardless, a permanent ban is too harsh for this. The most important reason I have proving of not deserving a permanent ban is someone have got a silent unban with almost the exact same reason as me. ( The first pic is his decal, the second pic is mine, I bet even a kid can tell that it has similar template and which part make it got flagged, both with an explanation below):


Sorry Mr. @chickenugget7021 for mentioning you too much, but I really need justice on this :broken_heart:. His post:

Account permanently ban cause of a decal that still could be found currently in roblox creator store decals tab - Help and Feedback / Platform Usage Support - Developer Forum | Roblox

Why Roblox Should Reverse Recent Bans and Improve AI Moderation - Help and Feedback / Platform Usage Support - Developer Forum | Roblox

It is undeniable that Roblox AI moderation have the ability helping to keep the platform safer by removing inappropriate content quickly, however I believe Roblox should stop relying heavily on AI especially with many flaws on auto moderation, it is causing more harm than good, with many players and creators getting banned or terminated with extremely vague explanations, even if not intend to break any rules.

In my case, the worst part is that similar items or assets can still be found on the marketplace, yet only certain users get punished. This makes me feel extremely frustrated. It is just so unfair and inconsistent. AI moderation might be fast, but it clearly lacks context and cannot judge situations properly as humans after all. Roblox should get back to relying on real human reviewers, provide clearer reasons for bans, and not be unnecessarily harsh. People deserve a fair chance to defend themselves and not just get slapped in the face with a well-known auto message : “After reviewing all the available evidence the consequences for this conduct will not be adjusted.”

Recent posts about many people that got affected with the same AI Moderation:

Multiple roblox accounts terminated due to enforcement ban - Help and Feedback / Platform Usage Support - Developer Forum | Roblox

Moderation Issue Leading to False Account Termination and Ignored Appeals - Help and Feedback / Platform Usage Support - Developer Forum | Roblox

AI “automated system” falsely terminating thousands of accounts for “avoiding enforcement actions”; Appealing thru Roblox Support is IMPOSSIBLE - Help and Feedback / Platform Usage Support - Developer Forum | Roblox

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Oh and I also want to ask if that’s over for me or do I have to send another appeal guys.. Will I get slap in the face with many more “After reviewing all the available evidence the consequences for this conduct will not be adjusted. ”.. Any advice is appreciated as I really don’t know what to do right now.

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Replying to hopefully boost up your post to someone that can give an answer to the possibility of you getting unbanned, I can’t give any input there because I haven’t been in that position.

On the topic of AI moderation being abysmal, a few days ago I uploaded the system message Roblox had sent out about extending the 2d clothing deadline, to my group wall/shout (whatever it is now) and received a warning for “sharing personally identifiable info”.
Went through the appeal panel and they overturned it in like 5 minutes but it’s absurd it happened in the first place and it’s obviously having bigger repercussions like in your case.
I’ve been banned a view times for both being a doofus and for pretty absurd things especially when there was bigger fish to fry happening in that exact moment (IE, being banned for 7 days playing sounds from that one instagram account of people yelling while getting their shin splints kneaded out, while two people were actively talking about “procreating on substances”)

I’m not sure if you tried appealing via email, or the appeals panel on the support page. The latter is where I actually saw some action on it. Your ban in this case is pretty obviously unjustified, anyone with some minor brain function could put two and two together.
Appeals page
Wish ya luck. :victory_hand:


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Give up on AI moderation? This platform would be a haven for sexual content if AI moderation is removed. Complaining about a false flag is one thing; whining that AI moderation should be removed is another. Do you expect Roblox to manually approve and review each and every one of the millions of hats, shirts, shoes, UGC items, decals, meshes, scripts, models, parts, places, games, descriptions, chat messages, and user profiles? I didn’t think so.

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Ah yes let’s give up on ai moderation on a platform with like a hundred million DAU what a great idea

that’s my fault with a short-tempered title - I’ll change it to a properly one now but well my point stand still and I wonder if you have read the whole thing I written.

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Sorry, that’s on me with the title but honestly, I just wonder if they can at least try to patch it up somehow and not letting the bot going on a rampage with so much privilege like come on you cannot tell me the bot can just give a straight up permanent ban with no note or whatsoever when they feel like it.

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Thanks for sharing! But well the thing is all of my 3 appeals are all start in the support page since they didn’t even show the reason of my ban and there’s no option for me to appeal for it. After that I do send appeals and follow-ups below their automated messages ( I don’t know if this count as appealing via email, if it’s not please acknowledge me ) but there has been no responses at all. Just until I send the 3rd appeal via Roblox support and don’t send any follow-up below it, I got the automated message saying that they won’t adjusted my ban… Like at this point I think:

  • If I send an appeal via Roblox Support and just wait, surely there will just be some bot auto replying to my appeal and just denied it like usual.

  • If I send an appeal via Roblox Support but this time I add additional info to back up, I don’t know when will I ever get a reply back as the previous time I have already waiting like 20 days already…

:smiling_face_with_tear: :smiling_face_with_tear: That’s the problem and that’s also why I’m asking if anyone know any alternative way because this just feel like a no hope situation.

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Don’t know what Roblox you’re on that isn’t a haven for sexual content.
Yes, obviously it’d be substantially worse without, but we can’t pretend that it’s doing its job effectively, at all.
As for human moderators, you can implement them to actually review cases, specifically for instances like this, and appeals instead of telling them to kick rocks based on a computer’s decision. It’s well known Roblox doesn’t even bother with human moderation. Strike a balance and almost all of this would be resolved. Don’t use AI to terminate accounts without manual approval?
Rukaa already clarified what they meant by the title. I’d be pretty pissed off too if several years of my work went down the pooper over something like this.
Screenshots from a buddy’s fresh account looking up “Woman”


screenshots from Moments being used as a means to literally find this content, that I have to censor:




You probably get the point.
My stance isn’t “gut AI moderation” it’s “make the ai moderation work and be peer reviewed”
It’s a multibillion dollar corporation, they have the means.



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With all things considered, only a very small portion of inappropriate content makes it past preliminary moderation.

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Not something surprising but just want to show the message I got after sending additional info to that rejected message. I’m curious why is it a new moderator or is it just a bot in disguised…

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Are you from the EU, UK, or somewhere else? Some countries have their own out of court dispute options.

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Yo by chance could i answer this one as well? roblox has been flat out ignoring my appeals now and i wanna know if theres a chance i can do anything as im in the UK and not the EU

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I live in Vietnam and in here we do have VCCA but I don’t think that’s a viable option since their power to enforce a foreign company’s decision is limited unless Roblox itself actually agrees to cooperate tho, which doesn’t seem very likely in moderation case..

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Yes you can, but what type is your moderation reason? Some cannot be appealed. If it’s Child Endangerment, it cannot be disputed, because they outright refuse to deal with those cases. They are considered high-risk moderation acts.

If it’s not, you definitely can.

Okay I see your account has been suspended for Harmful Content/Behavior so yes it is very likely you can be unbanned.

Search for UK out of court dispute options on the internet, file a complaint and make sure to include your Roblox accounts’ usernames, brief description of what happened, and of course the asset IDs.

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Then you’re out of luck because Vietnam doesn’t really have strong out of court dispute options. However I’d still give VCCA shot.

Though, Child Endangerment is a high-risk moderation act, and it cannot be appealed even with third party disputes, even EU/UK outright refuse to deal with such cases.

I understand that in your case, you’ve uploaded an image, moderation bot scanned it, and the reason was Child Endangerment, but sadly in these cases it’s unlikely you’re going to get your account back.

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wait how did you find out about the yqv_j account being suspended for that? i never shared that on my devforum post but yeah the account was termed for that which enforcement banned my main and then my siblings

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I’ve actually looked at your previous DevForum posts and you’ve mentioned and provided a screenshot of the ban note.

I don’t like the fact that Roblox Staff lock posts and state “Reach out to Support”, like hello, we all tried, all we get are botted responses and/or responses unrelated to our case.

If someone will point us to a system, then first make sure it functions properly.

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ah i thought you was referring to my current devforum lol

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