What are the rules for what's allowed on images?

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#1

I mean content wise, for use on textures and decals - what can’t be included? ie, certain text or imagery

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#2

This should help you!

#3

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#4

Thanks.

I can’t see any issues with including URLs in images, as long as the text is “clearly visible to Roblox moderators”. Have you heard of any issues with URLs?

#5

Its not problem to put link to the image (ofc any Not Safe For Work in links is not allowed)

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#6

Offsite links aren’t allowed. Only offsite links that are allowed are in the social links - otherwise you can’t put them into images or anything.

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#7

Thanks, although that seems to disagree with the part of Terms of Use krrtek linked me to. Can you point me towards any terms or rules that explain this?

#8

It doesn’t disagree with it. The rules state that text must be clearly visible (this is just to avoid confusion, like parents thinking some blurry words says something inappropriate when it doesn’t) - it doesn’t say that offsite links are allowed if the text is visible.
I’m not going to look for the exact part, but I am 100% sure offsite links are not allowed. Some Twitter or YouTube links have been permissible in the past, but I don’t think they allow that anymore.

Hope this clears things up.

#9

It’s a list of things that aren’t allowed. I wouldn’t expect it to be explicit about things that are allowed. I would expect to be exhaustive though, given it’s in a legal document.

However, thank you for raising the possibility that it’s not allowed.

#10

Not just a possibility, it’s pretty definite. I found the section for you (searching on the devforums also shows countless results asking about offsite links though).
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The section krrtek provided is specifically about what is allowed in images - the other rules also apply to these images (offsite links not being allowed included).

Also, the fact that linking Discord servers in places that aren’t the social links is not permitted is pretty telling:

I think some links will be allowed in images, but if they are, then it’ll only be any of the permissible links. Anything else is obviously not allowed

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#11

Thanks for digging that out.

I think “links” is fairly ambiguous term, with regards to URLs included in images. You could just as easily argue a link is function as a representation, so cannot apply to part of an image. If I wear a shirt with a URL on it, are either that URL or my shirt a link? Perhaps.

I’ll dig around further in the terms tomorrow morning. I doubt I’ll find a definition though, given it’s not capitalised.

Either way, I think I need to upload a few test images and see what happens.