Updating Experience Guideline Policies to Keep Our Younger Users Safe

[SlIavv (slav)]

most reasonable thing roblox has done all month

[mrclayblue (clay)]

While it’s going to be annoying adding ratings to every game I want everyone to play, I suppose it is necessary. Great job on releasing a reasonable update within the last month, ROBLOX

[TomPlays63 (Tom)]

Free-form User Creation experiences – Doesn’t that apply to user generated content?

[completelyhazel (hazel)]

it’s not. the questionnaire explicitly tells you not to take ugc in mind.

[CatzRule_81 (Catz)]

@TomPlays63

UGC won’t be available to 13+, Roblox have you lost your mind?

@icymanred

this is 100% rational, have you seen the stuff in those games??

@TomPlays63

This is what I mean, most games will be negatively impacted with this update. ROBLOX cannot be trusted, It’s every day there’s an issue

Tom, if you’ve gone into any of the “hangout games” that @completelyhazel is referring to, there’s a 90% chance you’ll find some things we’d call “heinous ####” - or something worse. While your argument exists that good-intentioned creators (including myself!) could be negatively impacted, the positives of this situation far outweigh the negatives.

@TomPlays63

This will literally ruin games, they should just release an AI tool that moderates the asset and returns if it’s allowed or not.

If Roblox released to us a tool that can tell us “is this content allowed or not” without fear for moderative consequences, everyone would use that tool to find ways to bypass moderation, which violates Roblox TOS on a massive scale. I understand where you’re coming from but you have to think about the fallout that could come from this.

[icymanred (gengar)]

that is referring to avatar items, not creator implemented ugc

[nexipat (nexi)]

Another update for under 13 users, I feel like I’m dreaming again.

I have a bad feeling about this, since it could impact to some games, but… about the vibe games and such? great thinking Roblox, you are really on a roll for this one since the last month!

[kavi_conner (Kavi)]

I’m currently creating a social hangout/UGC building experience. Although this change will impact my future users, I do believe this change is for the good. Protecting the younger userbase is very important, and I’m glad Roblox is making moves in that area.

@Roblox

This does not include in-experience user creations assembled with 3D assets that have individually gone through Roblox moderation (e.g. building a house with blocks, creating an outfit, creating short-form videos of in-experience content).

@Roblox

Will all free-form user creation experiences also be restricted to users ages 13+?

• In-experience user creations assembled with 3D assets that have individually gone through Roblox moderation (e.g. building a house with blocks, creating an outfit, creating short-form videos of in-experience content) will not be restricted.

So, I do have a question with this. How would I have 3D assets created by my users be moderated by Roblox moderation? Would I now have to use PromptCreateAssetAsync for every upload now?

[ChipioIndustries (chipio)]

I’m having a hard time understanding the rationale behind banning younger users from an arbitrary genre of games.

Every game on Roblox that has any kind of chat function is a “hangout” game, it just has some extra features added on.

I can understand the rationale behind preventing younger players from playing games with unmoderated 2D canvases, but the carveout for 3D canvases is strange because… you can still build inappropriate 2D things on a 3D canvas…

I’m lucky enough to not be affected by this but a lot of developers are about to find out that in two weeks their revenue is going to be a fraction of what it once was. It does not feel like these restrictions were created with the gravity of their impact in mind.

[completelyhazel (hazel)]

“creator generated content only; ugc content is not measured”.

i don’t know about you but this doesn’t specify which kind of ugc should be taken into account

[hunterk1241 (HunterDaFloofer)]

Read the Q&A

@Roblox

In-experience user creations assembled with 3D assets that have individually gone through Roblox moderation (e.g. building a house with blocks, creating an outfit, creating short-form videos of in-experience content) will not be restricted.

They literally state what is acceptable in terms of user creations

[icymanred (gengar)]

this is a disingenuous argument, not all games are “hangout” games. games thats sole purpose is for social interaction will attract bad people. its been proven time and time again, not to mention that the actual content of the game is usually at best slightly inappropriate.

[CatzRule_81 (Catz)]

@ChipioIndustries

I’m having a hard time understanding the rationale behind banning younger users from an arbitrary genre of games.

Every game on Roblox that has any kind of chat function is a “hangout” game, it just has some extra features added on.

Some games are explicitly created with the intention of being social hubs. These games, such as Mic Up, are what Roblox intends to target with this policy. Other games such as DOORS would not be affected.

However, Doors may be affected by a different update, as they curiously haven’t updated their Fear content descriptor from “not present” to Repeated Mild Fear.

[SlIavv (slav)]

current roblox AI moderation is horrendous at best, so it’s better for actual people to review the stuff

[mrclayblue (clay)]

Well based on this, I’m not too sure

[TomPlays63 (Tom)]

No, I’m talking about User generated content in games.

[abidbmt]

Does this mean moderation will finally be loosened for 13+ more? 13 year olds are not little babies that dont know any swear words, 13+ experiences should have weak voice and text chat moderation like 17+ experiences since restricting your game to 17+ players would very heavily reduce your playerbase…

Context: I was talking about fitness in voicechat before where I said the word “fat” since we were talking about burning fat but since the moderation does noit take the conversation context into account I was banned for 1 day…

[hunterk1241 (HunterDaFloofer)]

What kind of user-generated content in games? Be more specific

[icymanred (gengar)]

this provides some much needed additional context

[completelyhazel (hazel)]

what???

should then this affect my game wubby, because it’s placing down 3d blocks and modifying them?

nvm i just realized this doesn’t affect me lol