Community moderation. A possebility?

Over the past weeks TRA has been running its own facebook group. People have been able to post links, no filters and no bans. We, the players, the community, have regulated the behavior and content of our fellow ROBLOXians. I belive that this idea of the users moderating each other, could be used in a bigger scale.

Would it not be better, if people could delete spam from their items comments. If people could permanently ban people from their games if they broke the rules, if forums were moderated by trusted members of the community. Would it not be better to have these local community centered moderation systems, than having a global bot system?

I belive that ROBLOX should empower their users to deal with user related problems. That real players could provide techical support to those who needed it. I belive that the many parts of roblox.com should be regulated by the users activly using them.

Moving away from global moderation, would save ROBLOX money, while possibly improving the communities across the site. Having a central moderation system would still be needed, for more extreme cases, that would require blocking a person from the entire site.

A flaw with a user moderated site could be biased or bad moderation, but don't we allready have that? It can only get better, and if some moderators are bad, they could just be replaced by ROBLOX.

Another idea could be to have a tier system. Tier 1 moderators can give warnings and notices, tier 2 moderators could suspend people from for example a forum for a couple of days, while tier 3 moderators could work together with the paid moderators and give global punishments across the site.

Having local community moderators would benefit the site in many ways, and I think it should be implemented in some way. Be it simple functions like deleting spam from your places, to a more complex tier system. Of course this is just an idea, and there is much to be thought about. But maybe the admins could start thinking if this indeed is possible, or if it would throw ROBLOX into destruction. What do you think? Leave a comment down below.

-Tonitoni

ROBLOX bans

Since I became the leader of TRA, my enemies have been trying to ban me in every way possible. But also before that I got banned for stupid reasons. Once for telling a guy not to give his password out, and another for uploading a german WW2 flag, for my WW2 game.

Still, it is the recent events that have been bothering me the most. Since I became the leader of TRA, I have been banned 3 times within just one week. First, one of my forum threads were changed to "I am a supernationalist, I hate negr0s." 1 day ban. Then someone built a nazi symbol and wrote "penis" in a personal build server, took a screenshot of it and said I made it in my personal build server. Kinda wierd considering I have not visited my PBS for over a month. Appeals@roblox.com rejected my request to have the ban lifted.

When my ban was finally over, I got banned AGAIN, for the same reason. I have emailed appeals@roblox.com, but I doubt they will lift the ban. I have a feeling the guy that is trying to get me banned has stockpiled tons of screenshots, and that he will send them to ROBLOX again once I am unbanned. Then this will repeat it self until I am permanently banned.

Official reply from a ROBLOX admin regarding exploits.

After several days of protesting and voting, a ROBLOX admin finally replied to our uservoice thread!

@tonitoniROBLOX That's a good thread. Because security is security we talk less about how to fix it, but I'm working on it all day every day -- David York (@DaveYorkRBX)

"That's a good thread." EVERYONE that said the admins don't care, and that the protest is stupid. YOU WERE WRONG! We were RIGHT. Protests, petitions and votes do work! Not only do we now have confirmation they are working on it, we even know who is doing it, and to what degree. It has been confirmed that they are working hard on it. Finally the response we were waiting for.

Some of you are probably thinking: "Well, I knew that allready." You were assuming it was the case. Now we know, and they know we want it. Thank you for voting and supporting, in the end it payed off. The blackout was smart too, because it made members realise it was a problem, and how to fix it. I am very happy that the admins have responded, hopefully they will have fixes ready soon.
-Tonitoni