Verified Accounts option

[HoudiniDev]

https://twitter.com/BOFCookie/status/870382513650270209

Would be an option in group settings.

Kind Regards,
-HeadlessHorror

[FearMeIAmLag]

If this is a way to prevent the bot accounts from joining groups by the thousands, it won’t work, unfortunately. Many of those bot accounts create a temporary email and automatically verify themselves.

This would also prevent a decent amount of casual players from joining a group and does not seem to serve any benefit. Could you possibly explain more to be more persuasive?

[rbx_lua (Matthew)]

@FearMeIAmLag

This would also prevent a decent amount of casual players from joining a group

I’m fairly certain that all users should be verified. Even casual users. Many features are already blocked for non-verified users, such as messaging and forum posting.

[EchoReaper]

Bots already verify themselves. Requested change would be ineffective.

devforum.roblox.com/t/add-a-captcha-to-the-comments-section/29070/57

@ReeseMcBlox

All the bots you see posting comments have a verified email, have existed for more than a day, and used IP address masking to get past floodchecks. They are highly motivated to do whatever it takes to post comments, because it makes them money on the black market. They will adapt to post CAPTCHAs by hiring human solvers. They will adapt to game play requirements by having their bots play the game for however long it takes to meet the requirement.

[HoudiniDev]

Okay. Thanks.

[unix_system]

Could slow it down.

[EchoReaper]

If it didn’t slow comment bots down, it won’t slow group botting down.

[unix_system]

Comment Bots are very different in concept - you can use the same comment bot to post on a hundred games, but you can only join a group once.

[EchoReaper]

This isn’t even an issue how how many accounts they can create though. Groups that have been member botted have already shown that exploiters are capable of creating tons and tons of accounts, as already clarified in the staff quote I linked. Adding verification is only a matter of how many of these accounts they can verify, which is all of them, as also clarified in the staff quote I linked.