Griefing

Griefing is the intentional harrassment of other player(s) in a game, such as online video games, which can be performed in many ways, such as repeatedly killing a player using a certain weapon and destroying other players' creations. It is primarily done to create pleasure from harrassment of a player/players for the griefer. The act is, however, not actually against the ROBLOX rules, but is still not appreciated and is also frowned upon by players nonetheless. Like many other online games, ROBLPX has a very common amount of acts of griefing in its games that are committed by many players.

Gear abusing
A gear abuser would use an extremely powerful weapon that can instantly kill players, such as the Ne'Kotikoz Phaser, Exponential Rocket Launcher, Hyperlaser Gun, Mad Murderer Knife, Explosive Super Glider, or Red Hyperlaser Gun, and would use it to slay anyone on sight until the abuser stops.

Tool abusing
On games such as "Make a Cake and Feed the Giant Noob", some players, usually guests or newbies, are often seen stealing other people's stuff. This upsets many players, because it prevents them from completing a certain task. Players often tell them to stop when they do this, or they would call them "noobs" if they do it too much.

Spawn killing
Spawnkilling is killing a player whilst they are respawning on a spawn point, which means that the griefer is preventing the victim from leaving the spawn point. Some players on certain building games have been seen making 'flying toilets' and put spikes on them, and then land on a player, killing him/her instantly.

Forcefield killing
This is similar to spawnkilling, except when the player spawns, he/she can very quickly find a victim and kill them with a weapon while the forcefield is still on, instead of the victim getting killed on the spawn. This is considered griefing, because it prevents the victim from killing the griefer with the forcefield.

Deleting work
In free building games, it is often an occurrence that a player (usually a 'noob' or a guest) are seen deleting other people's work. Not only is this rude to the builders, but it is also wasteful to the bricks. Some players delete other's work and claim that another player deleted it, causing the accused player to have bad things happen to them. For example, if there was a "kick script", they would get kicked out of the game.

Funny physics
Funny Physics is a setting which used to exist. It allowed the player's character to float in the air, and drop very slowly. The character could walk through walls, but couldn't jump, and unanchored bricks would move very strangely.

C4ing
A form of griefing that was common on Personal Servers. A player may ask for tools (or they may already have tools firsthand) and start placing models of C4 explosives near a building, statue, etc. After a desired amount of explosives are deployed, the player places a lever or anything that activates triggerable devices, then the griefer will wire one piece of C4 to a wirable switch, then the griefer activates it and the C4 explodes, destroying any bricks near it and killing any player caught in the vicinity of the ensuing explosion. Players who perform this are usually caught in the act and either have their tools stripped off them or are banned, or even force the owner to shut down the server, and in some cases, close the entire place for a long period of time.

This frustrates many players, and on some personal servers players couldn't access the "experimental" section of the stamper tool.

Flooding
Another form of griefing that was common on personal servers, other than the spamming of C4 explosives. Someone will, in order to perform this type of griefing, get the stamper tool either beforehand or by asking an administrator of the server for it and then equip the water tool. After obtaining the tool, the griefer will then drag the water across the entire map or a part of it, and then water will be all over the place. This is equally frowned upon just like C4ing. This form of griefing can ruin terrain and other players' work. This is worse than C4ing, because it is harder to find who flooded the map, and administrators who are present would usually roll back the server when this happens. Such damage is extremely hard to revert without shutting down the server because it changes the other high scalability bricks.

Brick spamming
Similar to flooding, but it doesn't destroy terrain or other people's work. It can, however, lag the server.

Offensive language griefing
This performance of griefing is fairly common as some users attempt to get the server owner banned by adding swastikas, offensive body parts, and/or profanity. It is much easier to revert but is more critical in situation. This caused many users to decline in giving tools and cause them to be aware to be blamed when someone else griefs, but is actually slightly easier to catch the person the person doing it than the flooding so the victim of the ROBLOX ban will ban the other victim from the server.

Team killing
Team killing (mainly called TKing) is when a player kills their own team members. Guests and noobs are mainly the ones who do this. Normally when players do this, the player that gets hit by the weapon is killed and the player that shot them gets killed as well. If the weapon (such as the Linked Sword) doesn't kill players instantly and takes a few hits to kill them, then every time they damage the player, the player who hit that person will loose health along with the victim. Some scripts can prevent TKing, by not dealing any damage or just instantly killing the player who did it and not harm the victim. There are some notable scripts that will teleport a user to a room and keep them there if they TK. It is important to note that most war groups (like Vortex Security) have punishments for TKing, so players should be wary when fighting a war between groups not to TK.

Facts and Possible Solutions

 * Most of these griefing methods cause minor to great damage to gameplay and/or places.
 * Gear abusing, C4ing and flooding can be prevented by adding a script from free models that removes C4s, the Water MegaBlock, and the gear before the player can place or equip it. However, not all of these scripts may work at all times and may break without warning, so the scripts should be chosen carefully and sparefully.