Criticism of Roblox/Community

One of Roblox's most commonly criticized points is its immature community. Players frequently utilize the Report Abuse system for things that are not in violation of Roblox's Terms of Service, such as another player winning a game or someone refusing to accept a trade offer with them. Some even criticize the community for making the catalog items overpriced. The Roblox community has been known to produce large amounts of complaints about the platform without providing evidence backing up their complaints, such as recent updates, The Roblox Corporation's business practices, and Anthro.

Guests
Guests were pre-configured Robloxians who had a multitude of restrictions and differences from normal users:
 * Instead of using a blacklist filter chat, they spoke using Safe Chat, a whitelist chat system that restricted users to using pre-selected chat phrases.
 * In older versions, guests had a yellow head and arms, green legs, and a blue torso, which is the skin of a classic Roblox Noob before DefaultGuest, BillyBloxxer, and BettyBloxxer were established. Guests were dressed according to ROBLOX's official account. When gear was released, guests had all of the gear that the ROBLOX character had. For a short period of time, because of ROBLOX having TBC, guests were allowed to access Builders Club-only games.
 * A guest's name will be "Guest", followed by a random number between 0 and 9999.
 * Users who play as guests were only allowed 20 trial plays from mid-2017 until removal of the guest feature. After the 20 plays, the player was required to make an account or log in.

Guests were generally disliked by the Roblox community because they tend to cause more problems than do regular users due to them not knowing how to play many of the Roblox games. Guests cannot be reported, which allows users to do anything, regardless of the rules, without fear of repercussions. Due to this, some users troll or exploit as a guest and get away with it.

Guests were officially removed on October 3, 2017. However, Guest Mode can still be played on mobile devices (only select games can be played as a Guest), which might be removed later in the future.

Online Daters
One of Roblox's most common and well-known problems is Online Dating. Online Dating is an often-brought up issue on Roblox and is disliked by many players. Whoever seeks a romantic relationship on Roblox, whether actual or roleplay, is online dating. This includes people putting "single" and "hot" in roleplay names and people saying things like "123 for a boyfriend" or "Want to date?" City games, school games, and roleplaying games are common online dating hot-spots.

Online dating is commonly seen as a predatory act and can result in outside interventions, aside from not fitting in with the kid-friendly nature.

Scammers and Scambots
Scams have been an ongoing issue throughout Roblox's history and included notable scams like fake VIP-shirt scams, "Get Drawn" scams, GUIs that trick a player into spending Robux on the game, and numerous phishing scams that steal a player's account. A common issue today involves scammers setting up bots in an attempt to lure impressionable players to their websites in order to hand over their account information, or complete menial tasks to 'earn' Robux through group payouts which also ends up in the scammer receiving ad revenue from the user's information being shared.

'Scambots', as they are referred to, can be seen throughout comment sections of clothing, audio files, models, and groups. They have also begun to evolve in the sense that certain "games" are published to Roblox which are propped up in player count by botnets and serve solely as an advertisement splashscreen for the scam site. Roblox has been criticized for not being able to find a concrete solution to this issue, as it has been ongoing for years.

Demographic Change
Around 2010, Roblox's demographic experienced a shift from a target age of around 10– 16-year-olds to 6– 8-year-olds. New and simpler building tools, brighter and more colorful graphics, and sponsorships by products advertised to this age range exemplified this shift. Many of ROBLOX's older users quit Roblox because of this shift.