Roblox UGC Creators banned for Uploading Layered clothing such as holdable items

I searched for each of the item IDs listed on the ban screen in the original post on the Rolimon’s website, and none of them were ‘holdable items.’ However, if there’s any clarification on this matter, I’d be happy to hear it. From the title alone, there already seems to be an inconsistency.

Another point I need to address is that these items actually violate the rules and should never have been allowed in the first place. Just because they’ve been available on the platform for an extended period doesn’t automatically mean they followed the rules or that the rules have changed recently.

These “clothing” items that make body parts invisible—essentially layered clothing exploits—do indeed abuse the platform’s systems. They allow users to completely remove their avatar and replace it with, for example, an animal figure or a random object of their choice. This exploit has been used by all the creators who were recently banned, and the ban reason was absolutely valid. Next time, when uploading layered clothing, creators should make items that genuinely add layers to the avatar (as the name ‘layered clothing’ implies) rather than exploiting the system to manipulate the avatar itself.

I don’t understand why people are trying to portray these items as innocent in the replies to this post. Please take a more objective approach. And no, items that partially or completely make body parts invisible (in other words, exploitative items) have never been allowed. I genuinely struggle to comprehend some of the replies in this post.

That said, there’s one area where I disagree with Roblox moderation: the handling of bans under the ‘Misusing Roblox Systems’ reason. This ban reason is treated differently from others and can lead directly to account deletion. Normally, with other ban reasons, once a ban is issued (e.g., a 1-day ban), any item that caused the ban and is later deleted does not escalate the ban or result in longer durations or account deletion. However, for the ‘Misusing Systems’ reason, moderation stacks up regardless of the circumstances. Your account can be deleted within seconds based on the number of deleted items, which is like a nightmare. I believe this is the main issue that needs to be addressed.

Otherwise, the items created by these banned creators are still rule-breaking and have always been against the rules. This wasn’t due to a ‘recent’ rule change; the same rule has been in place for years. The issue is simply that this specific ban reason operates differently, leading to sudden mass account deletions. If the moderation policies applied to other ban reasons were also applied here, this issue would be resolved.

Of course, if a creator repeatedly violates the rules, they’ll eventually have to say goodbye to their account. However, having it happen at lightning speed and all at once is an undesirable outcome.

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Thank you for addressing this issue. Could you please look into the following creators who were terminated for using the auto-setup feature in Roblox Studio to create bundles? This would help clarify what happened in their cases, as it has created a lot of uncertainty among bundle creators;

I have refrained from using this tool after learning how the AI moderation affected them. Your clarification on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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My account is permanently deleted even for 8 items that were created and were not for sale, I could not archive them because it was impossible, could you review my account (Alfredo_EC), please?

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FYI the item in your deletion note is an orbiting item that floats tens of studs away from your character, quite obviously intentionally uploaded using exploits that bypass the position bounds. If your account was to be restored that’d be quite absurd. Next time have a good think about whether or not it’s worth the risk uploading exploitative accessories to the catalog :pray:

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I’d like to point out some layered clothing that is catered to blocky body type that also didn’t survive the whimsy of the AI moderation, I didn’t see anyone mention it so far.
Mostly you’ll find some of those on Rolimons’ deleted UGC page and items of my “community” are deleted. Hell, even some of the blocky clothing that Adidas published also got deleted and some other creators that made one too.

Here is also the LC from my group that is now appeared on the Rolimons’ deleted UGC.

@RosariaDev also got one of LC deleted.
(Here’s the link of her tweet)

I don’t even know what kind of bypassing for LC I’m making to begin with, but these aren’t fine now? so, IDK if they even gonna moderate all the other blocky clothing that still exist in the marketplace too.

While some other creators either got banned and/or notified about the item deletion, I didn’t even get any notify inbox messages, nor emails about items on my group was deleted to begin with. Even a guy that I hired to do uploading job didn’t get any notification of the item deleted also.

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I was also affected by this tool.

It had a bug where you would hit the Set up button, it would publish a model under your account (easily visible by looking at the toolbox, my models tab in studio),

but you would get an HTTP Error: OK in the console, and the set-up would fail, however the basic mesh would still be published as a copy under your account

One of those many models that the avatar setup published under my account was struck by moderation as “Sexual Content” ; and there was no way of me appealing it, I tried explaining it in the ticket that it was one of many more identical models that were otherwise OK, but my appeal was still denied.

It’s a horrible thing that using a Studio feature can get your moderated without you being at fault.

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I’m not exactly sure what’s wrong here, there could be a lot going on in the background, so I think it would be better for you to send an appeal and get your response that way.

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Hello All,

Just want to provide an update on this issue and apologize once again for all the confusion and headache caused to many of you :frowning:

There was a bug in our moderation system that incorrectly moderated a large number of assets in a short period of time causing additional bans including account terminations. The bug has been fixed and assets and accounts have been restored.

Please, post here and/or DM me if you are still affected by this issue.

Sincerely,
HaloArbiter_101

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Hey,

Im not sure if anyone else had this issue however I was moderated again for a second time for things that were already moderated during the whole ban wave. Its affected 2 of my accounts and caused 1 of my accounts to loose its uploading perms.

I can provide more details about it privately.

Thank you,
frames

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Hey @shr2mp,

Please, DM me with additional information so I can follow up and help resolve this situation.

Best,
HaloArbiter_101

I was also affected by this mass ban wave.

Is it possible to get my item restored and ban removed from account history? Asset ID: 17159702724

Thank you!

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This happened to me and roblox re-deleted 4 items that have been deleted for months, the items were already deleted when they got moderated again, luckily support said

“This moderation action will not negatively affect the account in the future. The circumstances of this moderation action will be reviewed to improve our moderation process.”

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Can I get help too? 2 assets were unfairly removed (they weren’t layered clothes) during this ban wave, without giving me a reason and without the possibility of automatic appeal and the Appeal Team never responded to my appeal (Roblox Support Ticket 108446371 and Roblox Support Ticket 108429821), asset IDs are 96662213650885 and 97152185667478. Thank you in advance for your help in this matter, I would appreciate it.

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My item was not restored (and my full 7 day ban was served, since it seems like staff was unable to do anything about it).

ID: 15609674178

This is a very old item, of a category that is extremely common (full body suits). It shouldn’t have been flagged by the AI moderator.

Hello @Szeloba and @Headpets,

Thank you for reaching out!

I’m checking the status of your items now. Will get back to you soon!

Best,
HaloArbiter_101

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I had aura arm-sleeves under the Jacket category that were affected by this. The mesh for it was moderated which deleted all of its [12] color variations.

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There was also a holdable cat that was affected that was never published on-sale.
17026315215

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My items are still down. I hope you can help. IDs:

17003076710
17003248242
17011341675
17009116442
17009158665
17011336025
17011330070
17011344108

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Hello All,

First of all, thank you for those that reached out and provided additional details on the accounts and assets moderated.

I would like to provide an update on this issue:

  1. All creators impacted from this had their account bans reversed during the escalation, so those bans should not be reflected in the accounts by the end of the month.
  2. Regarding the assets, unfortunately, due to the timing when this issue took place (i.e. over the holidays) the automated refund process already kicked in for many of the items and we are unable to reverse it. I’m sorry a manual reversal is no longer possible and we won’t be able to restore the assets.

Please, keep in mind that the majority of these assets have been identified as no longer passing the new cage validation checks we have put in place to improve the overall quality of layered clothing assets in the platform. We had no intention to take them down before reaching out to you, their creators, and help you update their cages, similar to what we did late last year updating grip attachment orientations. We are really sorry for the headache and confusion this has caused.

Some of you already reached out asking for information on how to fix the cages. I will follow up with all of you involved in this incident with this information.

Sincerely,
HaloArbiter_101

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At this point are we free to re-upload the items then as long as they pass the new cage validation?

CC @Headpets Read over this announcement and refer to the best practices documentation provided:

If you can modify your items to follow proper caging pratices, you should be good to go (not an engineer though, so best to wait for confirmation).

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