At Roblox, our imaginative and prescient is to reimagine how folks come collectively. We’ve got created a spot the place hundreds of thousands of customers, creators, and builders throughout the globe construct and share experiences and kind friendships.
We’re dedicated to making sure folks of all ages have a constructive and protected expertise, and are free to precise themselves inside a respectful atmosphere. That’s why security and civility have been our core values from the very starting and drive every part we do.
As our numerous neighborhood has grown, so have the platform performance and assets we’ve created to each defend and empower our neighborhood. We’ve got constructed rigorous new programs and improved current ones. We’ve created a wealthy suite of free instruments for anybody who needs to construct on Roblox. And we’ve employed probably the most proficient and well-trained workers throughout our belief and security and moderation groups. We’re happy with this foundation. And our work and deal with security will all the time proceed, particularly as Roblox helps a good wider number of experiences and our neighborhood grows even bigger and extra numerous.
On this publish, we’ll share 5 essential methods we each help and defend our customers, creators and builders. We are going to present details about our insurance policies, our differentiated method to cultivating a protected platform, and a few initiatives we’re engaged on.
#1 – We prioritize security and civility — it’s the inspiration of every part we do
We’ve got had a safety-first tradition ever since Roblox first launched in 2006, and all the time will, which suggests we are going to all the time prioritize actions that defend our customers, even when meaning superseding different concerns, resembling unrestricted speech. For instance:
- Utilizing a mixture of human and machine detection, we conduct a security assessment of each piece of content material that’s printed on the Roblox platform, together with all pictures, video, and audio recordsdata. We don’t enable person to person sharing of movies or pictures.
- Our chat filters are rigorous and industry-leading, and we constantly replace them to dam the sharing of inappropriate phrases, private data or off-platform hyperlinks, together with to Discord servers and different third-party areas the place we should not have visibility.
- Our professional group, of hundreds of individuals, is devoted to monitoring for security all over the world, 24/7.
- We count on everybody on Roblox to comply with our Neighborhood Requirements, and have Report Abuse instruments that anybody can use to report on-platform conduct that falls beneath these requirements. We actively encourage our customers to report any rule breakers or dangerous content material. We take abuse stories severely, and we preserve shut and clear working relationships with regulation enforcement and international security companions in each nation we function in.
- With our zero tolerance for inappropriate content material and conduct, we take swift and fast motion to handle any content material or developer that violates our phrases of use, together with any makes an attempt to go round our security insurance policies and protocols.
- As with every neighborhood, there are a small variety of dangerous actors who could try and undermine or skirt the foundations, and we proceed to evolve our platform and insurance policies to thwart this conduct.
We even have a sturdy set of options and initiatives particularly geared toward defending youthful members of the Roblox neighborhood:
- We offer a set of Parental Management settings that can be utilized to limit who youngsters can work together with, what experiences they’ll entry, and the way a lot they’ll spend.
- We guarantee sure options, resembling spatial voice, are solely out there to age-verified customers.
- Our chat filters block inappropriate phrases or phrases, chat conduct that clearly signifies an try and deliver a participant off our platform, social media hyperlinks and references to third-party chat functions, and questions associated to non-public data like age, telephone quantity, or deal with of one other person.
- We replace blocked phrases every day and in addition use automation to flag content material for additional assessment by our moderators.
- We proceed to offer actionable assets for folks, caregivers and educators to advertise studying about security and on-line civility by our Digital Civility Initiative. We companion with greater than 20 main international organizations that target youngster security, on-line security, or each, and belong to a variety of {industry} organizations devoted to collaborating throughout platforms to maintain customers, notably youngsters, protected.
- We promptly report any suspected youngster exploitation, abuse supplies, or on-line grooming to related authorities and organizations such because the Nationwide Crime Company, in addition to the Nationwide Heart for Lacking & Exploited Youngsters (NCMEC) in america.
To study extra about how we defend customers of all ages, go to our Security and Civility pages.
#2 – We offer instruments to allow accountable, environment friendly expertise creation
We consider one of many causes Roblox has confirmed so widespread with first-time builders is that we’ve eradicated the obstacles that usually forestall folks from getting began in sport growth. Individuals can begin creating on Roblox instantly, without cost, with no upfront prices and no coding background required.
Along with offering free instruments to start out creating, we additionally cowl burdensome ongoing bills and complexities resembling internet hosting, storage, buyer help, localization, regulatory compliance prices, fee processing and platform charges. All these may in any other case fall to builders. By incorporating this performance into our system, Roblox permits builders to deal with creation.
Roblox builders can even modify their experiences and publish throughout console, desktop, and cellular units instantly — enabling speedy iteration and testing in actual time. And as soon as Roblox builders are prepared to point out their creations to the world, they have immediate entry to the practically 50 million (and rising) every day energetic Roblox customers everywhere in the world.
Due to how straightforward it’s to get began constructing on Roblox, most builders be part of the platform as hobbyists, maybe studying to code for the primary time. That describes many of the youthful builders we see on Roblox. As builders hone their expertise, sometimes over a interval of years, some will select to transition into part-time or full-time sport growth as a supply of real-world revenue, or to hitch growth groups {and professional} sport studios constructing solely on Roblox.
We provide a variety of assets to help builders making this transition. These embody:
For extra data on how we assist builders construct on Roblox, go to Worth for Creators and Builders.
#3 – We try to do every part in our energy to take care of an financial system that’s environment friendly, supportive, and honest
We consider in a wholesome digital financial system. We’re continuously investing in methods to make sure creators will be compensated for his or her efforts and everyone seems to be handled pretty.
How the Roblox financial system works
Roblox is, and can all the time be, free to play. Customers who need to improve their expertise on Roblox can select to purchase gadgets utilizing a digital forex known as Robux. These things may be clothes or equipment for his or her avatars, or gadgets to help gameplay in a selected expertise.
When a person purchases one thing on Roblox, the creator of that merchandise earns a portion of the sale in Robux. If a participant buys an merchandise whereas they’re in a selected expertise, the developer of that have additionally earns a portion of the sale in Robux.
Which means a developer will earn between 30% and 70% of the worth of the transaction, relying on whether or not they’re the creator of the merchandise offered, whether or not the merchandise is offered in an expertise they created, or each.
Builders can even earn Robux through Engagement-based Payouts, which reward experiences primarily based on person engagement. These funds occur mechanically, and require no direct spending from customers. Builders can reap the benefits of our natural channels, our community results, and our cost-efficient, on-platform adverts to develop the variety of customers partaking with their experiences.
On behalf of our builders, we cowl app retailer charges, growth software program, networking infrastructure, international compliance, buyer help, billing and collections, and ship a rising, international viewers of fifty million every day energetic customers.
We paid out greater than half a billion {dollars} to our neighborhood in 2021 alone, and that’s practically 5x the quantity our neighborhood earned simply two years in the past.
The underside line is creating an expertise on Roblox is considerably inexpensive than making an attempt to take action off-platform or in any app shops and the monetary rewards are doubtlessly very massive.
Changing Robux into actual world forex
At a sure threshold, builders can convert their earned Robux into actual cash through our Developer Trade Program, or DevEx.
As a way to take part in DevEx, builders have to be over the age of 13 and supply supporting tax documentation to substantiate their id. As well as, they need to attain a minimal of fifty,000 Robux. This minimal withdrawal quantity required to ‘money out’ is maintained to make sure the platform can successfully course of the quantity of cash-out requests acquired.
The 50,000 Robux minimal was launched in January 2022. The speed was diminished from the earlier threshold of 100,000 Robux to broaden the variety of builders that may earn real-world cash by our DevEx program. We’re working arduous proper now to enhance the programs so we are able to proceed to decrease the minimal once more in 2022.
We construct our platform to make the economics of making on Roblox favorable to builders, however we’ve all the time made clear that the platform will not be a “get-rich-quick” scheme. It sometimes takes many hours of arduous work for builders to hone their expertise and develop their expertise earlier than they are able to begin incomes real-world revenue. Such a dedication gained’t be proper for everybody.
To study extra about the advantages of changing into a developer on Roblox, go to our Developer Economics web page.
#4 – We take motion to stop abuse of our financial system
We don’t tolerate fraud and scams, and have stringent guidelines and monitoring processes geared toward combating them.
For instance, we don’t enable hyperlinks to third-party websites that may very well be used to trick customers into handing over money, gadgets, or Robux.
Developer earnings ensuing from the buying and selling of collectibles are not eligible to be transformed into real-world forex in our DevEx program.
For different earnings which can be eligible to be transformed into real-world forex, our 50,000 Robux withdrawal minimal supplies a further layer of transaction safety that reduces the danger of fraud. Whereas we enable the portrayal of playing in experiences, no actual cash or Robux could also be exchanged in these experiences.
#5 – We’re all the time strengthening our programs to make Roblox even safer
Our security programs and groups are continuously evolving and innovating to make sure everybody has a constructive and wholesome expertise on Roblox, day by day.
For instance, in 2021 we applied a number of new machine-learning-based programs and considerably elevated the variety of human moderators reviewing Roblox for dangerous content material. Consequently, in 2021 we noticed an 84% discount within the variety of customers who had been uncovered to any experiences that violated our insurance policies. This 12 months – and yearly – we proceed to aggressively enhance each our proactive and reactive detection strategies.
It’s essential that every one content material adheres to our tips, and that every one growth groups collaborate in moral and respectful methods. We work to make sure there is no such thing as a abuse or unfair remedy going down inside growth groups. Though we’re restricted in our capacity to watch off-platform abuse and mediate disputes or inappropriate conduct that come up off-platform, we’ve created new initiatives to assist information and help our neighborhood and forestall behaviors that would trigger hurt, even off-platform, together with:
- Additions to our Neighborhood Requirements to additional codify the behaviors we count on everybody in the neighborhood to stick to, together with these collaborating as a part of a group;
- Extra assets geared toward youthful creators, notably these trying to Roblox as a supply of revenue; and
- Instructional supplies to assist the mother and father of youthful creators information their youngsters in the event that they select to pursue changing into knowledgeable developer.
At Roblox, we’re proud to be one of the civil locations on the web. Because it has been since our earliest days, security is, and can proceed to be, our prime precedence, and we’re dedicated to repeatedly enhancing our programs to maintain it that means.
