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Re: How Roblox Should Deal With Scams

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TopazHookshot is not online. TopazHookshot
Joined: 05 Sep 2016
Total Posts: 44
11 Jul 2017 02:57 PM
I am a preteen Roblox player with BC. I enjoy playing Roblox and my favorite game right now is probably Jailbreak. I have gotten an unaccountably high number of bot friend requests, but if I were to guess, I’d say I get about f i f t y Bot friend requests per day. Bot friend requests are not only annoying, they’re also dangerous to the people naïve enough to fall for them.

Anyone who joined before January of this year will remember the Comment Section Bots. The comments of popular games were flooded with advertisements for scam sites and annoyed the Roblox community until people got the hint to disable comments on their games. After that, we were scam free for a couple months until the Friend Request Bots were created and our Friend Request Sections became the next comment sections.

Well, no more! I have an idea that will stop scamming at least a couple months. My idea is to censor all offsite links.

By censoring all offsite links, friend request bot accounts will be stopped dead in their tracks. Most friend request bots, or Request Bots as I will call them from now on, advertise scam sites. The bulk of Roblox players are smart enough not to fall for these sites, but imagine a n00b who accepts a friend request from a Request Bot and goes to the scam site. Boom: their Roblox account is completely gone. Worse is the rare BC n00b that would end up losing their parent’s money by falling for a scam like that. Offsite links are already against Roblox rules, so why not censor them? It would take at least a few weeks, maybe months, for the Request Bots to return.
An alternative is to lower the friend request limit, giving Roblox friendships more meaning and slowing down bot accounts. However, I don’t think that will be very effective at stopping the bots.

Scam games are also worth mentioning. The easiest way to stop this is to not permit games advertising Legit Free Money to be posted and/or to permanently ban or poison ban users who post scam games. It will stop people from posting games like that.

In summary, Request Bots have taken over Roblox and it’s the admins’ jobs to stop them. My idea is to censor offsite links and poison ban users who post scam games. Roblox is supposed to be a site where you can play and create games while chatting with other players, not a site where you are scammed out of the items that may have cost you and your parents lots of money. I hope these suggestions help you in the fight to make Roblox a fun and safe place for all.
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MrPhelps is not online. MrPhelps
Joined: 27 Feb 2010
Total Posts: 27982
11 Jul 2017 03:00 PM
"My idea is to censor offsite links"

They already do. That's why bots have to put spaces and parentheses in their links. The only non-censored offsite links are youtube and twitter.
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Borsy is not online. Borsy
Joined: 31 Jul 2014
Total Posts: 15111
11 Jul 2017 03:03 PM
the problem is: how do you censor all offsite links?
if the site uses a rare TLD such as "cf" or "online" that hasn't been censored yet, how do you censor that?
when a profile already has the link in their description, how do you censor it? it would take too much processing power and would lag the entire site and filter to filter everything on the site again


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arboklv12 is not online. arboklv12
Joined: 30 Sep 2011
Total Posts: 146
11 Jul 2017 03:27 PM
Why don't they just block relevant phrases with the usernames such as "clickme" "dontclickme" and ect.
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Borsy is not online. Borsy
Joined: 31 Jul 2014
Total Posts: 15111
11 Jul 2017 04:13 PM
they use names such as "MinionsProfile" now


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StoneThinker is not online. StoneThinker
Joined: 12 Dec 2015
Total Posts: 3165
11 Jul 2017 04:14 PM
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


i'm active, stop thinking i'm dead.
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twitterspambot is not online. twitterspambot
Joined: 13 Sep 2016
Total Posts: 4
11 Jul 2017 07:16 PM
Uh. I'm angry that many ClickNow and MinionsProfile accounts are following me.
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MooMooManager is online. MooMooManager
Joined: 25 Oct 2014
Total Posts: 418
13 Jul 2017 09:08 PM
actually I think the creators of the scam site are trying to make money off of you by doing their "human verification" sur ve ys so... yeah.
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Veroax is online. Veroax
Joined: 06 Aug 2011
Total Posts: 8419
13 Jul 2017 09:12 PM
no support, would cause way too much lag




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