I’m sure this has been re-posted by many people. But this is a serious problem.
Roblox does not seem safe anymore. I see people getting on alts, and using a website that puts dots under your characters. And chat filter cannot detect them. Allowing for LITTERLY ANYTHING to be chatted.
It’s so bad to the point where I can’t even discus what these people are saying. It’s bad.
Example usage of bypassing message:
See those dots under the letters? That lets anything get through. Roblox you must do something. And yes I know this has been re-posted, but I really want Roblox to take action against this.
i’ve never actually seen dots under characters. this isn’t even the worst one. in roblox’s chat, without any third-party software or anything, you can simply type “e<x<a<m<p<l<e” with every letter in a word separated by a “<” and it will not get flagged. this issue exists entirely on roblox’s end, and it’s insane that they haven’t patched it after months.
I saw videos of exploiters using scripts that turns their message into other characters that look the same to avoid getting filtered completely which sometimes look like a completely normal message but not filtered making it possible for slurs, links etc
The chat filter is also outdated like it blocks .com links but it doesn’t censore .gg or other links im pretty sure
It also blocks “Twitter” but not “X”. Sure people can argue that its just a letter but people use it without needing to bypass anything while moderation doesnt do anything
They need to patch this soon, i have even seen some people write banned words with no care and not be banned at all, like the full words, and not even a warning, well only if they get reported
Roblox needs to do something about this. They said Roblox is a “safe game” even though it is very easy to bypass very innapropriate stuff. I dont think Roblox even cares about its safety they only care about money.
I’m beginning to think that too, I think they just want to bribe more and more players into their game. I feel like they don’t care about the community like at all anymore.
I think that Roblox automatically bans the users sending those after a report is made. My speculation is that Roblox has a second layer of defense, some sort of AI vision thing, that is only triggered if a user is reported and not for every chat being sent on the Roblox platform.
If they had implemented an advanced AI for chat filtering rather than a mere complex algorithm, I’m sure it would catch far more attempts at bypassing. This would of course be more expensive financially and computationally, but they have already implemented several AIs for development so it should be within their power.
In my opinion the Roblox chat filter is simply outdated. It was developed long time ago and it has trouble figuring out complex patterns. Not only that, but sometimes it’s way to strict and it makes it hard for actual messages to be sent.
I think that Roblox should start relying more on AI systems that detect the context of communications rather than the words being used to describe them(except of obvious cases, such as swear words or slurs).
Yea, I think it would also help if it could detect unknown fonts or questionable sentences with like many different fonts. That would prevent the scams.
A lot of Roblox bypasses rely on a Unicode quirk: Combining characters.
These are essentially Unicode characters that kind of stick to the previous character when typed, like this:
This can be used to trick the filter into thinking it’s not a bad word, because in the filter’s shoes, it looks like this:
bad word
into this:
b•a•d w•o•r•d
If the filer were to somehow pick up on these, it would solve a lot of bypasses.
Not allowing these could also probably work, as there are already stand-alone charåcters with the combining chåracters already built-in.
