A chat-based Roblox exploit appears to be causing players to lose account access after joining specific games. Multiple members of the Roblox community report falling victim to the exploits, with punishments that range from a few days to permanent bans.
Roblox Trading News initially flagged the exploit, noting that players who joined an experience called Crossroads [A.2] would immediately have their accounts banned. The exploit reportedly works by taking over the user’s chat and triggering strings of inappropriate phrases. Roblox’s chat moderation tools automatically flag these phrases, which leads innocent players to then face account bans.
Roblox streamer KreekCraft addressed the issue in a video titled “My Roblox Account Was Banned.” The video includes footage of streamer clarkt1000 falling victim to the exploit and becoming audibly upset upon learning of the ban. Although Crossroads [A.2] is no longer accessible on the platform, KreekCraft claims to know of at least four other games that appear to be using the same functionality to trigger bans.
KreekCraft then confirms that when he used an alternative account to try to access a game that leveraged the exploit, which one of his viewers provided for testing purposes, he found himself facing an account ban.
So far, the exploit appears to be limited to obscure titles. However, given the shareable nature of Roblox experiences, players are advised not to click on any links to unknown games until the company can resolve the issue. Robloxians can further protect their accounts by playing only trusted games. Users should also be aware that games that use backdoor scripts to teleport players to other experiences could teleport them into games where they can get instantly banned. Twitter user Antcar, whose profile lists them as a game developer, shared instructions on how players can disable the platform’s chat features as an additional precautionary measure.
In a follow-up to the account ban video, KreekCraft shows documentation that Roblox’s development team is aware its chat features are subject to possible exploitation. He also discusses developer claims that Roblox may have known about the potential for hackers to abuse the exploit as far back as 2016. Roblox has yet to make a public statement about the issues.
Content moderation is an ongoing struggle in Roblox’s metaverse. The platform has 54.1 million daily active users as of early 2022, and the company openly disclosed its challenges with content moderation among its large fanbase in its 2020 IPO filing. The company leverages AI to automatically flag suspect content but claims only human moderators take action on accounts.
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For other pages with similar titles, see Roblox (disambiguation).
Roblox (formerly ROBLOX) is an automated staff-ran account that shares its name with the platform, primarily used to publish items to the avatar shop. When Roblox commissioned Beta stage from Alpha stage and launched officially, Roblox's account creation date, including all others created before 2006, was subsequently changed to February 2006 due to database changes. It used to have a fully-capitalized username but it was renamed to "Roblox" on May 13, 2021, presumably due to the early-2017 change of Roblox's branding. The account used to have Turbo Builders Club, which was changed to Outrageous Builders Club in 2013, and finally to Premium in 2019. The account's current ID is 1[note 1].
Places
The Roblox administrators, who have used the account collectively, made more than 100 places; only 27 of them are active. Roblox's places include all of the starter places and other classic games, such as Crossroads and Chaos Canyon.
Games
The Roblox account hosted a variety of games up to c. September 12th, 2017,[citation needed] with the number of public games having slowly diminished for some time prior until all of the account's games—except for Crossroads—were made private on the aforementioned date. Some of the now-private games can still be played at Super Nostalgia Zone, a game by CloneTrooper1019. Games owned by the Roblox account include:
Friends
From its creation up until June 17th of 2007, the Roblox account had no friends.[1] On August 8th, 2007 to August 23rd, 2009 (or possibly further), the account auto-accepted friend requests. The friend list of the account was eventually wiped on or before January 7th, 2010.[2]
On August 5th, 2015, Two users, Txnqo and OVOTango (presumably the same person), became Roblox's friends. Txnqo was removed a day later, with OVOTango being removed either on or before the 29th. It's suspected that Tango had either hacked their way onto the friend's list, or wished to be on it via the Make-A-Wish Foundation.[3]
Inventory
Roblox's inventory was publicly viewable until c. March 5th, 2015, after which it went private and became unable to be viewed by regular users. Roblox's most recently published hats can still be viewed through the "collections" showcase on its profile, however. The private inventory feature was made available to all players 3 years later originally only being available to the Roblox account.[4]
Value
The ROBLOX account is known to own a copy of the vast majority of accessories and gears ever released to the Catalog. In Limited items, ROBLOX has approximately 53,000,000 collective RAP and is valued at more than twice this amount according to fan sites.
Guest Accounts
The appearance of Roblox used to be connected to all Guest accounts. For instance, if the Roblox account decided to put on a Sparkle Time Fedora, all guest accounts following the changed avatar would get the Sparkle Time Fedora. To combat this, the accounts DefaultGuest, BillyBloxxer, and BettyBloxxer were created to keep the Roblox account's appearance separate from Guests and to define the Guest look.
Male guests, using the look from BillyBloxxer wore the True Blue Hair. Female guests, using the look from BettyBloxxer wore the Pinktastic Hair. Ungendered Guests (those who don't pick a gender or play on iOS devices), using the look from DefaultGuest wore the 'R' Baseball Cap.
All of the Guests wore the Robloxian 2.0 package.
Gear issue
When gear was first released, this became a problem. Any guest playing a game that allowed gear would receive all of the gear Roblox owned. Both of these were fixed by creating the BillyBloxxer, BettyBloxxer and DefaultGuest accounts, which became the new outfits for guests.
Last Active Dates
In February 2016, ROBLOX was updating their avatar and games, although it said last online in 2006. Later, ROBLOX updated Crossroads on September 26th 2017. According to Roblox's APIs, ROBLOX was last online in September 2017. However, in 2021, the last online date was changed back to 2006.
Gallery
Mid August - Mid September 2008
Early - Mid August 2008 ROBLOX Olympics Building Contest
Trivia
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- It can be seen that David Baszucki's account originally had the ID of 1 in 2006.[5]
- Roblox's second last avatar seems to be a variation of the Roblox avatar in the Support page.