Update to Roblox Groups

[AVeryFancyDoctor]

They already removed messages, now group wall.

[TQNY2]

@tu35d4y5

This almost seems cruel. You’re taking away their voice.

Their voice … most I see is spam & unrelated stuff … “I was 1st” or “what the person said above/below me” (replying to other spam).

I agree they should have a voice - but spam should be deleted.
Repeats should be blocked/banned.

I personally think Roblox is heading somewhere - they won’t sabotage their income.
I will give them time - use work-arounds.

Besides - it’s lazy Devs that don’t have an in-game bug reporting system.
Can’t blame Roblox for that.

[tu35d4y5]

Right. As the group owner you need to moderate the group. Maybe make it up to group owners if they want the younger set on the wall. I don’t have a wildly successful game so that’s probably why I don’t have to deal with spam, but I do have a very devoted group and want them all to be able to participate. Ty for your response

[agentphilip07 (Philip)]

These are interesting and very cool changes and updates! It’s great that Roblox is updating groups and making them better!

[RememberToSmile01]

This is the worst part
Roblox, please do a little thinking about this.

[1Keeth (Keeth)]

I’m looking forward to these new features! It would be cool if we also got some more settings or maybe an option to ban certain words on the group wall (or later forums) to limit the number of scams like this which I find myself often clearing whenever I look at my group:

Still a cool update though and I’m looking forward to trying it out.

[LentilBeans50000]

I understand the concern for 13< users, but I want my Roblox Group to serve as a communication space for everyone, not just 13 and up, and this ruins that.

Also, I think Groups could wait: Moderation and Filtering urgently need fixing.

Innocent users are being punished every day while obvious offenders are roaming free. People are still bypassing extremely explicit words, while non-specific words like “drink” are turning entire conversations into hashtags.

[ForeverBrown]

They are in a growing amount of legal trouble, so said screw it. Delete!

[nin900500 (nin)]

Don’t understand why this would get moderated.

[Ralphie0511]

@TimeFrenzied

Yes, Roblox is rated Teen. This is nothing surprising. Yet, losing out on communication with members where a large portion can be falsely banned without any method of appeals, is a bad idea.

I get what you mean, and I do agree with you. But in what scenario would a player get falsely banned? The only thing I can think of is if a game’s anti-cheat system falsely flags a player, but I don’t see that happening often in the Roblox community.

@TimeFrenzied

I came to this opinion myself, although I do see your point. There are appealable bans, like bug-abusing/glitching, and accidental glitching which can be perceived as exploiting. However, most of these you need to communicate with a moderator somehow, which will now become impossible completely for users <13 with the removal of messaging etc. Also for some weird reason a lot of developers like to put the game rules in a Discord and not in-game, so you wouldn’t be able to see it anyways.

I really do appreciate the civility, as most people repeat what they hear online without the facts to back it up. I do agree with this, as if a player is falsely flagged as an exploiter, they won’t be appeal to appeal without a game’s Discord server. This could, in theory, create a large problem for these users to appeal.

@TimeFrenzied

You do not need to be involved in development to make good suggestions, people want things in game and some of these can be good. Removing this entire category of users only benefits Roblox here unless they add some type of way for users to contact certain roles of a group like a form.

I never meant to imply that only developers make good suggestions, I’m sorry if I made it seem that way. At least when I’m developing, most of my best feedback comes from regular players. However, I did see Roblox was planning to allow users to submit anonymous feedback through likes and dislikes, so if this is available to these players then this could potentially be helpful.

@TimeFrenzied

Adding onto this, these users should be able to SEE content on the group wall at the minimum, if not post there.

I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. I understand not posting for safety, but not being allowed to see potential posts is absurd, especially considering some game development studios post important information on there.

Edit: My fault for not responding sooner, I haven’t had a lot of free time recently.

[huxjar17]

Is that roblox communities? If so how do I make one?

[birdmartinyt (The Fanboy)]

Actually, thats Guilded, a first party platform owned by Roblox.
A lot of Roblox groups mainly use Guilded for announencemnts on Roblox.

I just really hope they continue adding more Guilded intergrations to Roblox since im honestly worried for Guildeds future ever since they forced Roblox logins to all Guilded accounts.

[ROWG_Leader]

I actually have taken a Business perspective and Safety perspective on this update. Think like this, only Verified users will be able to communicate. Thus instantly killing all bots on the platform, Gone are the days where your channels are filled with spamming about free Robux. I approve this update as well as removing the complaints from non contributing minors.

[roblox12881281]

@caibles

Apparently communities are going to be available to all users, but that’s not out yet. Classic Roblox move to be removing/restricting features without providing alternatives

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[caibles (cables)]

What does this mean, exactly?

[royee354 (Royee)]

Can we get a join group prompt ingame already DX

[huxjar17]

how do i make a roblox communities?

[birdmartinyt (The Fanboy)]

Roblox Communities are NOT here at the moment, theyre still in development.
Well actually, I lied about communities not being here, since Roblox Communities is actually a new name for Roblox Groups, that you are probably already using.

Features such as forums are still in development.

[huxjar17]

I own a group and guilded and stuff is the group a community?

[birdmartinyt (The Fanboy)]

Yes, it is indeed a Roblox community, just not officially called one.