The Robloxian Army quits RWI

Yesterday I released an official statement concerning The Robloxian Army and RWI.
You may read it here if you have not read it yet.

"Okay, I don't care about any of the small matters RWI spend an hour discussing about. It does not benefit TRA in any way. Besides, I am not fond of RAT running this whole operation. When I accepted meowmixxed's offer, I was promised technology and a place together with the other superclans. I was promised cooperation between clans at a level never seen before. In reality, all we do is discuss who should be a member and who should not. Nothing really happens. It just seems that the clans within the alliance, want to feel so high and mighty by declining other clans, because it gives them a sense of power. The only people standing up on the podium at any given time are ColourTheory, Ariclatios and piede. This is just RAT trying to run the place, and I don't like it. TRA is no longer a part of this."

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

Working up in TRA #1

This is episode number one, in the series where JuzzbyXfalcon, the guy from ROBLOXowns Productions, tries to achieve a good position in TRA

So last week I started being active in TRA once again, with the current RSF war that wasn't really a that big problem, checking the group wall as much as possible, going to trainings, raids and defending Normandy. Within that time I read the promotion guide a few times, and didn't really noticed any problems. Until I became sergeant, the rank where you have to do more then just shoot and kill. Now I have been and I am a high rank in several groups, so obviously it's not that I can't take command, actually I take command over higher ranks some times, because they totally mess up. It looks like when saying that you need to have a skill over other people, that skill doesn't get noticed by other people, for example I could make a base, but non of the high ranks would come check it out, give feedback and optionally promote me for it. I could make new weapons, but non of the high-ranks would actually make time to test them, to use them etc.

Now, I don't know what it is, but as far as I know other groups don't have this problem, even better a lot of TRA do get promoted to captain... Actually we have 289 captains at the moment, so I guess it's just me not spamming the high-ranks enough, which I will probably never do. Though I will really have to find a way to get a promotion to captain... Any suggestions?

The dark side of the TRA vs. RSF war

TRA and RSF have been at war for over a week now. The war started for no other reason than to have war for war's sake. TRA is a war clan, we don't need excuses to go to war. Some bonuses with war include more activity and members getting more skilled.

The start of the war was pretty nice. Everyone fought fair, no hacks and little flaming. Sadly, like most ROBLOX wars, bad stuff started happening. Bases got exploited all the time, and flaming became more and more common. As much as this is a bad thing, we must tolerate it and move on. Hacking and flaming can't be avoided.

Even though bases get hacked all day, TRA has managed to produce evidense of 21 legit victories, while RSF has produced 1. Still RSF claims they are winning, and accuse normandy of being unfair as the reason for why they are losing. Honestly, normandy is pretty fair compared to other clan forts. The reason RSF is losing the war is their inactive members, and devided leadership. Many RSF generals are about to betray RSF, or are inactive. One of them even asked us to end the war because their leadership was too bad to handle our power.

In stead of admitting they are losing, RSF is now planning to counter this by putting their spawns inside the base, and give them selves 1 hit KO snipers. They allready have an easier time than us at the fort, yet they are planning to make it even more unfair. Just imagine trying to swordjump over the wall, while 1 shot kill snipers pick you off and spawnkill you from the hills. Then if you actually manage to get over the wall, you just get shot in the back while trying to cross the bridge. They are creating a huge spawntrap to even have a chance of winning. Still they claim they are "One of the most prestigious clans on Roblox!"

TRA is winning this war, what we are seeing now, is RSF's final attempt to win. The question remains if they will actually carry out these changes. Even if they do, I belive TRA will be victorious once again.

Summary of my 1st week leading TRA again.

This has been a rather interesting week. I got TRA the day before my mid-term test, but I think I did well with both. It has been fun being back behind the wheel of this great army. I took a loooong break, but you know, I started to miss it. Working with the highranks, which are all doing a great job by the way, has been fun. I also did some reforms. The promotion system, elites, rules and the majors academy have all been reformed. Another thing I am proud of is fort normandy. Formerly a TSB (The Strike Battalion) fort, it scaled well up to TRA. 18 players seems to work fine, and I am glad TRA like it. When designing it, I had fairness and fast paced gameplay in mind. Did you know one of the administrators, reesemcblox favorited it?

Overall it has been a great week, the war with RSF is going great, and the fort is more active than ever. There has been some bad buzz about the United Powers Clan Allaince (UP for short) recently. They kicked us out because we went to war with RSF without them accepting it, but really we decide who we want to fight, not them. The UP never helped us anyway. The thing that everyone seems to be waiting for now is the major reform. Honestly, I haven't found a fair way to solve that problem yet. Still thinking, maybe having major logs or something. Other than that, I wish more people would enter the build a base contest, a 2nd base would be nice.

I am uploading some nice voice commentaries right now, you should check them out on my youtube channel. I am thinking about making a series of tutorial videoes to help recruits become better soldiers. Might happen, depending on the feedback I get on my first video. I noticed we are getting tons of new members too. Probably because normandy is so popular nowdays. Anyways, what do you want to see in TRA over the next weeks?

-Tonitoni