User blog:Trollpastalol1234/Guests: A Proposal

Hello my readers.

If you have been on Roblox any amount of time, you will have noticed these fellows by now. They walk our streets, partake in our games, interact with our people. And yet at the same time they are not us; they are alienated by prejudice and the settings that Roblox has given them. I speak, of course, about Guests, the Temporary People. Honestly, they deserve a lot better than they have it now, excluding the fake troll Guests of course.

Personally, I feel Guests are in need of a complete overhaul. It may seem a little extreme, but it may be necessary for a better Roblox. So, here are three things I feel need to be fixed.

Point number one: Guests cannot speak except with a pre-defined and very limited set of words. The English language has over 220,000 words in its possession, and yet Guests can only use about a hundred or so... whereas a user is unlimited unless we count the swear word "filter" (###, anyone?).

I think this communication barrier should be fixed, personally. Guests at least need some context. Currently, the chat menu is very limiting, and we need more tools to communicate effectively with our mute brethren. Perhaps there could be a feature where players can assemble their own chat messages out of available words/phrases, then click a submit button to... well, submit it. I'm not sure how easy this would be for Roblox to implement, but it seems possible. We could call it Guest-o-Speaker or some silly name along those lines, I don't know. Of course, the Guest-o-Speaker would be limited to words with a non-offensive subtext (in other words, no swearing or slurs).

Point number two: Guests are frowned upon by the community as a whole. This is more of a bi-product of Guest's habits of destruction and blank misunderstanding. Because of these things, users shun them. Because Guests are shunned and banned so often, they have no opportunity to learn and will therefore keep their uneducated ways.

My solution? Guests should be made un-bannable, but have a time limit of a half-hour that they can be on one particular game. That way they have just enough time to learn the ropes of a game, but do not overstay their welcome. This all goes towards Guests reshaping their image from uneducated obtuse noobish griefers to respectful and upstanding members of society.

Point number three: Guests look the same. Guests are truly the faceless masses. They are identical save for gender differences, and their faces are naturally locked into a smile. A Robloxian, when he sees another user like himself, will feel more sympathy towards that user if something bad happens to him/her. A Guest, however, is uniform, and therefore a user will have no problem mowing through rows and rows of anonymous unsympathetic players.

I propose something new. A guest should have an option that is basically a stripped down version of the average user's Character interface. This would allow them to browse through the catalog and wear any face, shirt, or hat that they desire, with no fee. They can also change their body colors like a user can; for example, if a Guest wants to they can become a rainbow harbinger of destruction or a dark figure of mystery. However, there would be some limitations. Guests cannot obtain gear from the catalog. They cannot take the Roblox logo off of themselves. Plus, when they use a new Guest at another playing time, their outfit will be reset. This is to give Guests limits on their customization, so the users with legitimately made accounts will not feel undermined. But hopefully, this will make Guests more relatable as fellow players and comrades, and give them personality.

In conclusion, I ask the people this: would you rather Guests remain as they are, or be changed for the better? That is all.

--Trollpastalol1234/GreatOverseer/GreatOverseer2--