MSE6
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MSE6 is a former Roblox administrator. She was heavily criticized by players on the Roblox Talk and Off Topic forums. She was often accused of abusing her moderation privileges, allegedly banning users for invalid, inappropriate, or outright false reasons and giving out inappropriate and harsh punishments. Although they presented little evidence for their allegations, many forumers believed MSE6 to be the sole administrator responsible for all inappropriate moderation on Roblox.
In-Game Report System
Roblox allows for a user, in-game, on the website, or otherwise connected to Roblox to report another player's behavior to the admins. Using the report tool sends a message to the Roblox moderation team. The moderators then check the chatlogs and other Roblox assets to determine what moderation actions are needed.
A Roblox safety tip telling users to report players who make them feel uncomfortable or are violating Roblox's rules
Multiple players have claimed that they have been punished for something they did not do or for something that does not break Roblox's rules. This has led many players to believe that Roblox's report system is primarily automated and designed to reprimand any user who is reported enough times. Players also believe that reports are rarely read by the moderation team because players are not instantly moderated as soon as a report is sent. Roblox has reassured players that reports are read, though it may be delayed due to the high volume of reports they receive at any time.
Pewdiepie's Moderation
On February 10, 2019, Pewdiepie, (known as pewdie123t32 at the time) returned to ROBLOX and created a livestream known as "Playing ROBLOX! to stop Tseries (once and for ALL) ". The livestream was mainly ROBLOX gameplay. Game developers eventually caught on and changed their game title that would convince pewdiepie to join. There was one case which a ROBLOX developer made a train saying "SUB 2 PEWDIEPIE", but after a message with ROBLOX, the developer had to remove the train. The livestream reached #3 on Gaming according to Youtube Statistics. About after an hour his live stream, his game and his account were terminated. Ever since the ban, many Roblox Youtubers have made videos about the situation. They and the community have hugely criticized the ban for being unfair and for being very unnecessary.
About a month before the stream, Roblox Developers have claimed that there was a new rule stating that any mention about Pewdiepie, whether uploading his face to decals or talking about him in communication areas was against the rules. This may have been why he was terminated. About two months before the incident, the account "Pewdiepie" was banned.
Due to the amount of criticism and backlash by many people, from inside and outside the Roblox community, Pewdiepie was unbanned on February 13, 2019.
However, despite unbanning pewdiepie, Roblox has also made the phrase "pewdie" blacklisted. This also caused criticism and articles to be created from the media, including many members of the Roblox Community..
Filtering System
Some of CommunitySift's advertised features
In early to mid-2014, many users were affected by an update that caused many words to be filtered. Roblox's filter system tags out inappropriate words with #, but in this instance, many appropriate words like "a", "my", "don't", "the", "well" and "yes" were flagged. Roblox uses CommunitySift, a context-based chat filter that utilizes a sliding scale risk tool for words and phrases. It is presumed that the filter after this update was set to a higher level that flagged content that it assumed was inappropriate.
Rules
Roblox's rules have been criticized for various reasons because community members call it "unfair." These reasons include but not limited to:
- No links to outside websites (such as YouTube videos or profiles), due to users linking others to shock sites and malicious pages.
- No talking about religious or political content, due to the violent 'flame wars' that are generally sparked by the discussion of it.
- No debates or rebellions.
- No inappropriate places such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Nazis, the execution of the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, ISIS executions, or places containing adult content. They recently added pubs and bars to this list, but many places like Club Boates and Club Insanity still contain a bar.
- No discussion of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic or Teen Titans Go! in Off-Topic.
- No swear words.
- If a swear word is typed into chat, it used to appear as hashtags (#) instead, with the same number of letters as the swear word to others. It was changed to "[Content Deleted]", but now it appears as hashtags again. Before hashtags were first used, the whole message a player sent is seen completely blank in-game.
- Some players may alter swear words, by either replacing certain characters with symbols or letters, removing certain characters, and adding new characters, just to bypass the filter.
- Some words, such as "[dang]" and "hell", are not filtered, which allowed many users to get away with using the unfiltered words toward others.
- Most filtered words are solely English ones, leading to some players swearing/cursing in a different language. However, this can be banned.
- No politics or anything related to politics.
- No Ugandan Knuckles, Big Chungus, or anything related to them.
- No depictions of romance, including shipping works.
- No copyrighted music.
- No going to 3rd party sites that offer Free Robux.
- No distorted or excessively loud audio.
- No images that include blurry, tiny, or unreadable text.
- No underwear-related clothing or "naked" avatars.
- No posting or mentioning about moderation actions.
- No mentioning PewDiePie in any way, which includes uploading a decal of his face, thumbnail, or video or mentioning his account in communication services within Roblox.
- No confederate flags or clothes with red armbands.