Unable to transfer group ownership

It was working before but I mistakenly pressed decline on my alt account because the decline button is larger than accept button and there’s no confirmation prompt whether I’m sure to decline or not… But when I try to re-initiate transfer it keeps spitting out “Failed to initiate transfer request”, quite ambiguous error message… so I check Developer Tools → Network tab, when I try to initiate transfer the transfer request returns HTTP code 500.

Now I may not be a web specialist, but I don’t think it should ever return HTTP code 500 under normal circumstances…

Page URL: https://create.roblox.com/dashboard/group/profile?activeTab=GroupProfileTab

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Hi, thank you for the report! We can confirm this is expected behavior on our end. When a group ownership transfer is declined by the recipient, the system enforces a temporary hold that prevents the transfer from being re-initiated to the same recipient for a period of time. This is a safeguard to prevent repeated unsolicited transfer requests.

The error message you’re seeing (“Failed to initiate transfer request”) is not very descriptive and we’ll look into improving it.

I see, thanks for the reply. I just find it odd that it returns error code 500, I kinda assume that Roblox’s server was down or something.

How long does it take usually until I can re-initiate? or can I request to bypass it just once? Nevermind, just successfully initiated the transfer.

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