RoFilter - Roblox chat filter in your Discord server!

[Mystifine]

So I guess we’re gonna be learning how to communicate using hashtags.

[dudeSafiyur1234 (not_dood)]

I love this! I got many ideas on what to do with this…

[TheAddictPlayer (Garrett)]

Well this is an interesting concept, but there is a few things that I have a strong gripe with, regarding this. I’m not denying that the concept is rather interesting and that you certainly did a good job on it OP.

Now there’s two questions I have with this :

• Could this be considered ressource abuse by the admins (since you mentioned using multiple bot accounts)

@1TheNoobestNoob

It uses multiple accounts to prevent downtime, and I have previously DMed DevRel a few months ago about this, but as they did not confirm/deny whether this was intentional or not, I decided for it to be allowed until said otherwise. I would not assume it would be prohibited to use, as it’s listed publicly on the API documentation.

• Will this cause the platform to get blocked by Discord like it was in the past should this be used in a server with loads of messages to filter? (back when some users were making a lot of requests whether intentionally or accidentally yes one day I accidentally made a lot of requests to WebHooks… Long story for another time)

Now don’t take it the wrong way OP, but to me this is a nice proof of concept, but as an actual usable thing, it does not seem to be a good usable idea.

[trigophi]

Does anyone have any proof that this works? I may be adding it to my server, and I don’t want to get into any malicious content.

[Affenity (Visual)]

This does work, last time I checked, the bot was in 48 servers, and I think some people enjoy it. Though I store nothing about messages at all, as it’s simply a relay/proxy, I wouldn’t know

[trigophi]

Alright, this seems good, and has a great concept! Thanks!

[ViniDalvino (TheEpicFace007)]

This would be a nice addition to lua learning discord. @boatbomber

[skillednames (nat)]

Ewwwww… Disgusting. How dare you.

[jufdnhf]

Wait until numbers get tagged.

[Meta_data (Meta)]

This is quite possibly the most horrifying thing anyone has ever made.

If you also made this as not a joke, I added this to my server with 300+ people and they were quickly able to abuse it and start swearing almost 5 minutes after I did that.

EDIT: They can completely bypass it with "my swear words here

EDIT2: It also interprets all messages that start with - as a command, rather than explicitly checking for -setup and -remove

EDIT3: People can edit their message after posting something

[TheAddictPlayer (Garrett)]

There’s so many gripes that I have with this:

• This could be considered ressource abuse by the admins (as you mentioned using multiple accounts)

• Can be bypassed by editing messages and interprets any message beginning by “-” as a command (yes I tried this with my own discord server)

Overall, I think this is a interesting POC (Proof-of-Concept) and that it further needs to be polished to be usable… Though I can see it more used in smaller servers to avoid overloading the filter with thousands of requests at once (which might go against both the platform’s TOS and Discord’s TOS!).

In its current state, I don’t see this as usable, yet.

[Affenity (Visual)]

@TheAddictPlayer

Can be bypassed by editing messages and interprets any message beginning by “-” as a command (yes I tried this with my own discord server)

@Meta_data

EDIT: They can completely bypass it with "my swear words here

EDIT2: It also interprets all messages that start with - as a command, rather than explicitly checking for -setup and -remove

EDIT3: People can edit their message after posting something

This is now fixed, thank you for reporting it. If anything else like this occurs, please reply again or send me a DM, and I’ll fix it .

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@TheAddictPlayer

Honestly I’m also considering (part of me believes that the author is innocent and that his WebHooks were compromised somehow) flagging this bot for review to the discord team. I don’t think indexing webhooks (is it even possible to crawl through other webhooks on Discord?!) is even allowed on Discord.

This is fully allowed, but as always, API abuse will get your application possibly removed from Discord. This is not the case with RoFilter as it only “indexes” the webhooks during the first time in that channel. It only uses webhooks that were created by itself.

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@TheAddictPlayer

Not to mention the potential ressource abuse on the platform, on small servers this would be a non-issue, but on fairly large servers, I can feel that this will choke down the filter (it is maybe getting pegged hard because of the current circumstances, no need to give it an additional strain).

I am aware of this, and this is why I am using multiple bot accounts to reduce the possibilities of getting rate-limited and/or blocked from Roblox. In the future I might add proxies to spread load on Roblox’s servers from multiple locations, but as of now, it is not necessary.

[LuculentKira (kira)]

Oh gosh! I love it. Thanks for the bot!

[BuilderFont]

You can’t even say “Discord” the platform that the server is on.

[cciacona]

Add this to the Roblox community server for an absolute riot.

[Kurookku (Kurokku)]

Roblox has an xcsrf token that updates every 30 minutes which could be a probable cause for your “downtime”

[goalmwo]

I can see this being very useful for servers that are entirely based around ROBLOX. For example, there are some servers in discord that are very child friendly, and this could help. I personally wouldn’t use this as the filter system isn’t roblox’s best creation by any means, but I like the concept and I am also sure it will be useful in some places!

[cciacona]

Discord is only for people 13+ regardless.

[goalmwo]

I understand that. But some parents are very strict with content that their children can and cannot view, so in that situation it would be useful. If it was used in a discord server that has rules against swearing etc, this could be handy as well.

[AndrewLemonaki]

No… just no. I do not want roblox’s broken filter anywhere near my server.

Also, I do not agree with anti-swearing practices in discord servers since discord is 13+. We are technically allowed to swear anywhere we want to according to discord’s ToS. If you dont like it, ban me from your server.