Roblox Safety Guide

Protecting Young Players

Roblox Content Moderation: Protecting Young PlayersBuilding Safe Experiences for Children and Families

Alan Agon
Alan Agon
January 16, 2025 · 6 min read

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With over 200 million monthly active users—many of them children—Roblox presents unique challenges and opportunities for creating safe gaming experiences. As a developer on the platform, understanding how to layer additional protection on top of Roblox's built-in safety features is crucial for building trusted, family-friendly experiences.

Understanding Roblox's Safety Landscape

Roblox has invested heavily in platform-level safety features, but the responsibility for creating safe experiences extends to individual developers and their specific game communities.

Roblox's Built-in Safety Features:

  • Platform-wide chat filtering system
  • Age-based content restrictions
  • Automated image and audio moderation
  • Reporting and blocking tools
  • Human moderation team for escalated cases

Built-in Moderation vs Additional Protection Layers

While Roblox provides comprehensive platform safety, developers can enhance protection with additional moderation layers tailored to their specific community needs.

What Roblox Handles:

  • • Basic profanity and inappropriate content filtering
  • • Personal information protection (phone numbers, addresses)
  • • Image and audio upload moderation
  • • Account-level enforcement actions

What You Can Enhance:

  • • Context-specific content moderation for your game
  • • Community-specific behavior standards
  • • Advanced toxicity detection beyond basic filtering
  • • Custom word lists and community guidelines

Developer Safety Responsibilities

As a Roblox developer, you have both ethical and platform obligations to maintain safe experiences for young players.

Key Developer Responsibilities:

Content Curation: Ensure all game content is age-appropriate for your target audience
Community Management: Actively moderate your game's community spaces and interactions
Reporting Systems: Implement easy-to-use reporting mechanisms for players
Regular Monitoring: Continuously monitor chat, behavior patterns, and user-generated content

Parental Controls and Family Features

Understanding and supporting Roblox's parental control ecosystem helps parents feel confident about their children's gaming experiences.

Account Restrictions

Support different restriction levels that parents can set for their children's accounts.

  • • Under 13: Heavily filtered chat, limited social features
  • • 13+: More social interaction, moderated chat
  • • Account Restrictions: No chat, friend requests, or private messages

Privacy Settings

Design your game to respect various privacy settings that parents may configure.

  • • Limited communication with strangers
  • • Friends-only interaction modes
  • • Disabled voice chat capabilities
  • • Restricted ability to purchase with Robux

Implementation Strategies for Enhanced Safety

Here are practical approaches to implementing additional safety measures in your Roblox experiences:

Roblox Script Example: Additional Chat Filtering

-- Server Script for enhanced chat moderation
local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local PAXMOD_API_URL = "https://api.paxmod.com/v1/text"
local API_KEY = "your_api_key_here" -- Store securely

local function checkMessageWithPaxmod(message)
    local success, result = pcall(function()
        local requestData = HttpService:JSONEncode({text = message})
        local response = HttpService:PostAsync(
            PAXMOD_API_URL,
            requestData,
            Enum.HttpContentType.ApplicationJson,
            false,
            {["Authorization"] = "Bearer " .. API_KEY}
        )
        return HttpService:JSONDecode(response)
    end)
    
    if success then
        return result
    else
        warn("Moderation API failed:", result)
        return {flagged = false} -- Fail open for user experience
    end
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    player.Chatted:Connect(function(message)
        local moderationResult = checkMessageWithPaxmod(message)
        
        if moderationResult.flagged then
            -- Log the incident
            print("Flagged message from", player.Name, ":", moderationResult.reason)
            
            -- Optionally kick player for severe violations
            if moderationResult.confidence > 0.9 then
                player:Kick("Message violated community guidelines")
            end
        end
    end)
end)

Compliance and Community Guidelines

Staying compliant with Roblox's Community Standards and Terms of Service is essential for maintaining your game's availability and reputation.

Common Compliance Issues to Avoid:

  • • Allowing bypass of Roblox's built-in chat filtering
  • • Creating external communication channels that circumvent safety features
  • • Implementing dating or romantic relationship features
  • • Encouraging sharing of personal information
  • • Creating content that promotes real-world meetups

Best Practices Checklist:

  • ✅ Regular review of community guidelines compliance
  • ✅ Age-appropriate content and themes
  • ✅ Clear reporting mechanisms for players
  • ✅ Respect for platform parental controls
  • ✅ Additional moderation layers for enhanced safety
  • ✅ Regular monitoring of player interactions
  • ✅ Transparent community rules and consequences

Build Safer Roblox Experiences

Enhance your Roblox game's safety with Paxmod's AI moderation. Our API works alongside Roblox's built-in protections to provide an additional layer of security for your young players, giving parents confidence and creating positive community experiences.

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