I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently, and I’ve finally been able to put my thoughts into words: the way account termination works is terrible for groups. I have been worry very much lately about my own account and what a termination would mean for my group. Note: I have no plans to be terminated any time soon nor do I believe I am doing anything worthy of termination. This is hypothetical and based on potential scenarios. If anything were to happen to my account to cause termination, no matter the circumstances, it’d completely affect 163,756 people.
That, obviously, is NOT a good thing. If, somehow, there was some kind of misunderstanding that resulted in my account being terminated, it’d cause me to abandon all groups I own. That’d be extremely tedious and damaging to the group, because anyone with any kind of Builder’s Club can join my group and grab it. So much damage could be done by the time the misunderstanding is resolved that it’d be beyond the realm of possibility to get everything back under control.
There are many potential solutions to this issue, though, that I’m surprised none have been used yet. They’re outlined below.
Successor system
Sort of like a real-life will, this system would be put in place to allow group leaders to choose where leadership will go should their account be terminated or the group would be otherwise abandoned.
The successor system would basically work like this:
The only potential con I see with this one is that it could be abused in scenarios of the accounts of group leaders being taken over maliciously and the group being transferred around via this system once the new owner gets terminated for stealing accounts - but that’s no more susceptible to abuse than the current Make Owner system is.
Making someone of the next-highest rank the leader
This one is more of a no-brainer, really - instead of having them abandon any group they own, just make it so that someone of the second-highest (the rank below leader) gets the group. For example, in the default group rank layout of Member → Admin → Owner, if the Owner were to be terminated then one of the members of the Admin rank would get the group. If nobody with BC is in that rank, then find the next highest ranking person with BC and give them the group.
Get in touch with the terminated leader
This one is probably the least likely or plausible on the list, however it might not even be a bad idea to email the terminated leader and have the group ‘held’ on their account until they name a successor to their group. If they do not do so within a certain time frame, then it’d be acceptable to abandon the group.
In closing, I’d just like to say that I do not mean ROBLOX should be sympathetic or encouraging of account terminations. I’m saying that ROBLOX shouldn’t affect potentially hundreds of thousands of people just because of one person messing up. That’s not fair to those people or to the group by any means and should be changed. I don’t expect much out of this thread, naturally, because it’s a request for groups - a portion of ROBLOX which houses an extraordinary amount of players and potential, yet often remains untouched and ignored.
Thanks,
Lilly