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Roblox, I ask that you please read through this entire suggestion, rather than just the tl;dr
Everyone else, read however much you want.
tl;dr: The Roblox chat filter is slowly causing Roblox games and groups to end, and Roblox itself to lose members due to the filters being more restrictive
The Roblox chat filter is destroying games with the amount of censoring it's doing. This might seem like an exaggeration, but for games that rely on the chat, such as roleplay games, it's not as far off as you might believe. The chat filter either needs to go, or stop being restrictive.
Roleplay games rely on their chat and name GUIs in order to function properly. With the new updates to the filter, about half of every sentence gets hashtagged because it's considered harmful, personal information, or for other reasons I'm not sure of, since the word 'I' was hashtagged before.
Roleplay has become almost impossible with the new filter, because numbers are hashtagged as personal information. If it could be an insult it's hashtagged, even though characters in roleplays don't always get along, and those that do something insult each other in a friendly way.
Roleplay groups feel the brunt of the chat filter more than most groups. Back before all the chat filter updates, lots of people would roleplay, but because almost everything is being hashtagged, people are leaving the genre because it's no longer any fun, and those that were on Roblox just to RP, are leaving it entirely in search of new places.
The chat filter needs to be either removed, or stop being so restrictive. If it doesn't, games and groups that were once thriving are slowly going to lose players and games that people worked hard to create are going to become relics of a time that'll long be forgotton. And when that happens, the people who worked so hard to create those games will leave, and their skill will be lost.
However, a word of warning. This post might be about roleplay games and groups, but the filter extends into all games in all genres. If the filter continues to block everything that could be considered an insult, more and more people will leave to find somewhere else that isn't as restrictive with filters. Once they do, they'll get their friends still in Roblox, and those friends will get theirs, and suddenly Roblox itself will entire a downward spiral of members until it becomes a shell of it's former self.
I love Roblox as much as the next Robloxian. You wish to make Roblox more kidfriendly, which is understandable. But if you continue filtering more and more, you'll bring Roblox to the point where the chat is almost unusable. If the chat filtering reaches that stage, we can only imagine what will happen to Roblox.
Therefore, I urge you to remove or reduce the chat filtering, before it's too late. Help us, Roblox mods. you are our only hope.
Believe these are the ramblings of a madman, if you want. But if this could be written from one genre, imagine what it would be if I wrote for all of them.
On behalf of Robloxians everywhere,
Alexis_Deltern, Writer
Xannaris, Co-writer
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