The chat filter randomly censors messages, and after doing so censors every single message after it regardless of content.

For the past week or so, I have noticed that sometimes my chat message tags for no apparent reason, and afterwards tags every single other message, regardless of what I put in it. After it erroneously tags one message, it tags several more. It happens every five minutes or so when a chat message gets tagged for no apparent reason, I have to fight the filter to let me speak again.

Expected behavior

I expect it to not tag when I say something as innocent as “hello” solely because the message before it was also tagged.

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Guessing the latter might entirely have to do with the former. IIRC Roblox uses AI with attention context to infer connections between your messages, which means if one message gets censored the rest may be interpreted as continuations and get censored aswell.

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I also noticed this sudden change across games.

Your average TBC chat log

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We love Roblox tags
STOP
:sob: FINALLY IT STOPPED TAGGING ME JAJSHSHWK

The tolerance is just way too low. At least crank it up for 13+ users. They’ve been treating us like little kids now.

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experiencing this, auto rap battles is a nightmare for everyone rn :pray:

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I have also noticed this, it happens at random times.

I usually rejoin to fix this, but it might not always work.

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You ever want to make a callout and then you get tagged for half a minute, losing what could’ve been essential to winning a match?
The new filter is an actual nightmare for any kind of speech faster than three message per minute. I hate it. Please revert this.

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@Scrufflord thanks for the flag. Can you share your username and the actual chat lines you were trying to send?

I cannot give a single example, because it happens so often and at random. My username is the same as listed on the forums, Scrufflord.

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this is still happening ALOT if you get 1 message tagged (even if its not supposed to, even ‘hi’ gets tagged), all of the messages you send next also get tagged no matter what the text is until you stop for a minute or two and then send again, only happens to the new chat not the older one (if games still have them)

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Bumping this again. Still not fixed and seems to have gotten worse. Is roblox trying to use LLMs to filter the chat? Doesn’t work at all.

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I have the same issues at random times. If some line gets filtered, i even can’t say “hello” after it. I need to wait several minutes and it’s getting fixed.

Also additional thing is chat filtering on 17+ games: I got filter warning for saying some alcohol name on a 17+ bar game.

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Yep I’ve been experiencing this too. You say one line which doesn’t seem bad, but it gets filtered and Roblox filters pretty much everything you say after that for 20+ seconds. I pray that this gets sorted out soon.

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Is this going to be fixed soon?

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This issue has been ongoing for a while, but over the past two weeks, it has become significantly worse. Once something gets tagged, you’re no longer able to say even simple things like “12345,” “Roblox,” or even “Hello.”

Hello, a game that I am an admin for has been experiencing this same issue for the past few months now. Phrases such as “Toronto Spawn”, “CN Tower”, and “do you like my car” are a few examples which get tagged. However, I have just tested these phrases today and while they did not filter, following up with “Oh wow” got tagged!

As others have mentioned, the filter is wildly inconsistent. A number, or a word that isn’t beyond grade 4 English may set it off and result in the next few messages being tagged.

I’m pretty sure you can literally request for certain phrases to be uncensored/censored. In here About the Bug Reports category

The issue isn’t any specific phrase being censored. It’s roblox deciding to censor literally every single message you send for minutes on end at complete random.

I’ve been having this problem in games too. One game that I play is Among Us, and when you’re trying to explain something, you just get censored for no reason. Because you are not allowed to communicate, you can’t make your statement and you might loose the round.

Majorly experiencing this in my games.

Constantly experiencing this in my own and other games

The chat filter quite literally filters anything that is said, even words like “hi”, “hello”, etc