I’ve been in a few games recently, where someone has a bot auto posting spam messages flooding my screen. One was a game advertisement, and another repeated messages to open a trade with him.
I wanted to report the user, but spam doesn’t seem be to an acceptable offense. I found the only way to stop it was to block the user, but that doesn’t seem realistic. And not everyone will know to do that. I also don’t think blocking a user makes much sense. Perhaps a mute button, spam filter added if not allowing this as an accepted reportable option. Thanks.
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Four years later, this issue still persists as can be observed down below.
It’s important to note that spam is in violation with the Roblox Community Standards as shown below:
Most players report spammers under Bullying or Cheating/Exploiting due to this limitation, but it wouldn’t necessarily fall under other categories such as those two in all cases. Consider the case below:
I wouldn’t call that bullying or cheating, just a question asked over and over again. Spam is most often committed by sending gibberish and/or the same meaningful phrase(s) constantly, which in most cases don’t violate other rules.
Blocking is a workaround as well as for developers to implement a chat filter but that’s a weak argument as it’s not realistic (not commonly executed) and eliminates the purpose of the report abuse feature. I could counter-argue that you could workaround other common rule violations as well. For instance, again, the developer can implement a chat filter to counter off-site links and personal questions. So, don’t leave out spam, it’s a common rule violation, and I could argue that it’s more commonly encountered than some other violations listed among the choices of rule violations you can choose from for your report.
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