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.
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?
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.
“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
Read the Q&A
They literally state what is acceptable in terms of user creations
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.
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.
current roblox AI moderation is horrendous at best, so it’s better for actual people to review the stuff
No, I’m talking about User generated content in games.
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…
What kind of user-generated content in games? Be more specific
this provides some much needed additional context
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
Did you read the announcement?
So… Roblox’s largest user demographic can no longer play one of the biggest genres? I get the intentions behind this, but maybe moderating the games that so heavily border platform rules would be a better move? It feels like suggestive content has been allowed to become a genre in and of itself lately.
how does free form user creation apply to custom 3d models. instead of a house like you said what if it was simply their own creation? these don’t get moderated their user generated. are users <13 gonna bet blocked from these kinds of games?
To quote my co worker,
I feel betrayed by this platform.
I’m not attempting to trash on Roblox’s already existing moderative systems, I’ve already addressed that (and more) in addition to providing my perspective on the many issues Roblox has a long time ago. That plus Roblox only has around 4,000 content moderators compared to TikTok’s tens of thousands.
What I was attempting to say is that if Roblox gives us the tools to determine if content is moderated or not–that is, they give us a feature that allows us to moderate an asset without actually publishing it to Roblox first–hordes of bad actors will abuse it
Definitely a welcomed change. This may not be necessarily privy or obvious to everyone here, but these kinds of games hold the highest risk of exposing children and young players to themes and content that could be really harmful at their age.
I also really appreciate the understanding that this only covers 2D/unapproved free-form creation, and even allows for client-sided creation. Building games are a real core part of Roblox’s DNA and it’s good that genre has been given a lifeline.
In the past year, Türkiye banned Roblox due to concerns of user safety. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom is investigating into Roblox about the similar issues Türkiye was having problems with. This effects Roblox’s reputation and has legally forced Roblox to attempt their best to improve the safety of the users on Roblox.
I will say that this update doesn’t initially do much since Questionaries are easily bypass able but if they started requiring the game owners to provide identification to allow search to be available then this could really help a lot.
