Community:Builderman

builderman is an inactive alternate account of that was used to send a welcome message to new Roblox players. It also owns many classic Roblox experiences, some of which are uncopylocked.

Background
Before the implementation of followers, builderman was friends with all new users by default. When followers were implemented, all previous friends would instead follow each other and all "Best Friends" would become regular friends.

Before August 6, 2021, making a new account would automatically generate a message from builderman, but now is generated by.

Welcome to Roblox!
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Hello, and welcome to Roblox—a platform for people all over the world to connect, share experiences, and express themselves in immersive digital environments, all made by users just like you.

Before you jump in and start exploring, here are a few tips:

A safe, kind, and positive community is our top priority. To ensure you have the best possible experience, configure your security and privacy settings and be sure to review our rules and account safety tips.

There are endless ways to customize your avatar with accessories, faces, emotes, and more. After you’ve set up your avatar, check out some of the most popular experiences from the community!

Roblox is even better with friends. You can chat with them or invite them into your sessions at any time, even if they’re accessing Roblox on a different device than yours.

That’s all there is to it. Enjoy!

Sincerely,

Builderman, CEO of Roblox

Welcome to Roblox!
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Hello, and welcome to Roblox! My name is Builderman. I started Roblox so you and your friends can experience just about anything you could possibly imagine across millions of immersive user-generated 3D worlds, whether you’re sailing across the open seas, exploring the farthest reaches of outer space, or hanging out with your friends in a virtual club. I’m here to make sure your experience stays fun, safe, and creative. Before you jump in and start playing, here are a few tips. You can customize your avatar using our massive catalog of clothing and accessory options. Once you’re set, pick something to play by checking out our most popular games! Did you know you can also play games with your friends across different devices at the same time, even if you’re on a computer and they’re using their phone or VR headset? Finding friends on Roblox is easy! Visit our forums, join or create a group, or invite others to play a game with you by sending them a chat message. Last but not least, be sure to read more about our rules and our account safety tips here.

That’s all there is to it! Now, get ready for an epic adventure. We hope you have a blast!

Sincerely,

-Builderman, CEO of ROBLOX

Hello, and welcome!
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ROBLOX is an ever-evolving place, where we're on a never-ending quest to keep ROBLOX fun, safe, and creative for all of our builders. To that effect, we're constantly updating ROBLOX. Keep an eye on our company blog for all of the latest news and current happenings. If you're curious about how something works, our Help section is a great place to start. For a deeper look at some of the discussions that fuel our platform, jump into our Forums, ask questions and give feedback. Thanks again for stopping by, we can't wait to see what you can build!

-Builderman, CEO of ROBLOX

Hello, new ROBLOXian!
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Welcome to ROBLOX! We are constantly working to make ROBLOX a fun, safe, and creative place for everyone. We update ROBLOX frequently, so be sure to visit our NEWS section to learn about new exciting updates. If you have questions about how something works, our HELP section is a great place to start. Finally, the FORUM is a page where you can find other people and make friends.

If you need help try looking on my HELP pages, and then if you don’t find it send me a message. I answer questions about ROBLOX.

Have a great time here!

-Builderman CEO, ROBLOX


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Dear ROBLOX User:

Welcome to ROBLOX! We are constantly working to make ROBLOX a fun, safe, creative place for people of all ages.

We update ROBLOX regularly, so be sure to visit our NEWS section to find out about all the exciting changes.

If you have questions about how something works, our HELP section is a great place to start. It's maintained by the ROBLOX community for the ROBLOX community. There's a ton of helpful information, including tutorials and answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).

Finally, please feel free to post your comments and suggestions in the ROBLOX forums. erman) CEO, ROBLOX

Appearance
builderman's original outfit had an orange torso, yellow head, and black limbs with a wrench Classic T-shirt. He was also wearing a Builders Club Hard Hat. In 2011, this outfit had it's first major change and would instead have a light skin tone, Robloxian 2.0 bundle, jeans with a grey jacket, and a Turbo Builders Club Hard Hat. The avatar would later have small changes in skin tone or clothing, but has since stayed mostly the same.

On May 29, 2020, builderman's shirt was accidentally content deleted by Roblox employees. Faave made a video stating this and that ROBLOX moderation is still a huge problem. This mistake was corrected on June 1, 2020.

Builderman Award of Excellence
The Award of Excellence is the final award handed out at the Bloxy Awards. It is given out to one game that is recognized for being well made by David Baszucki (although in the 7th Annual Bloxy Awards, it was awarded to two games). This one is carried out by David Baszucki as builderman.

Username
In early 2006, builderman's username was "BuilderMan". However, in late 2006, his name changed to "Builderman". Then, in mid 2007, his username changed to "builderman" and still remains this way today.

Trivia



 * Before the friends and followers update, builderman had the most friends on Roblox with over 60 million default friends.
 * The user Flashingjustice was builderman's only friend not transferred to a follower, later on, more players were added as builderman's friends for unknown reasons, but they have all been removed as of late 2015.
 * builderman is one of the few players to have a hat named after themselves.
 * builderman currently has the most followers on Roblox (about 69 million).
 * builderman might possibly be the first user to change their username on Roblox.
 * There was a debate on who the builderman account belongs to. Some said it belonged to, even though created the account in 2006. Little change has been done with the account since its creation that is due to the account being originally intended to be a message bot along with Roblox. Due to a video released by Roblox, it has been confirmed that builderman is, in fact, David Baszucki. He explicitly stated that "I used to log in as builderman".
 * Series one of Roblox toys included a toy of builderman. This toy is featured in two Roblox toy videos, one in the 2nd episode of the Work at a Pizza Place toy series, where he can be seen getting a sausage pizza from the delivery boy when he gets presented the order, he says that he ordered only cheese. The pizza delivery boy then wipes the sausages of the pizza then presenting it to him again. He also appears in the capture the flag video, where he can be seen playing capture the flag with other Robloxians. The videos can be watched here and here.
 * Anyone who was friends with builderman from late 2014 or earlier will have him following their account.
 * builderman has an OBC variant Roblox toy of himself hat came included with the Roblox Character Encyclopedia.
 * His hoodie on the website has the classic logo and icon in 3 places, but on the toy it is the current 'R' from the logo and only on the front.
 * builderman's 2015-2017, and 2011-2015 avatar outfits are currently saved in his account's Avatar Costumes, with the names builderman1 as the 2011-2015 avatar, and builderman2 as the 2015-2017 avatar.