The abuse of flagging needs to stop

[Hooksmith]

@TheConqueringCheese

You really expect to believe these people aren’t bots when they have barely used roblox and every single post they make has been closing a topic or sending moderation messages

These are real humans reviewing the flags and taking action. We do not currently automate anything at all about flag handling, only some parts of the messaging to lighten the workload. Every decision is taken by a human. I talk to them frequently on our work tools. It’s not very constructive to base an argument on an assumption that you didn’t validate.

[railworks2]

For the avoidance of doubt, forum moderators do use canned responses for dealing with flags, where appropriate and necessary?

[Hooksmith]

Getting flagged for a deleted post

The moderator reviews the version of the post that was flagged, but the automated message after X flags has the latest version of the post. Since you mention your post wasn’t contributive before removing it, that’s likely why people flagged it. (it was flagged before you deleted it)

Getting flagged for a deleted post

@hya123456h @O3_O2 Small clarification: note there are two kinds of messages related to moderation: You get an automated message letting you know your post was flagged by the community, this doesn’t mean a moderator looked at the post yet or took any action. The flags may be false and if so the moderator will deny the flags and restore your post. You get a message from a human moderator with more information on the rule you broke if the moderator ends up agreeing to the flags. The message in …

[Hooksmith]

It is unclear from this post and the following discussion if there is an actionable problem here.

Please send me specific examples of cases where you think you were recently mis-moderated on the devforum and I can take a closer look.

For future posts, please keep our feature request writing guidelines in mind and try to be specific about actual problems you are seeing on the forum. For moderation concerns please prefer our appeals system so that we can maintain your privacy and better handle your problem.