False reporting

False reporting occurs when one player reports another for false reasons or for things that are not against the rules, typically with intent to get them banned. False reporting can rarely result in action taken against a Roblox account, including a warning or ban. At one time, there was a report option for when you believed you were falsely reported, labeled "Falsely Reporting Me", but it was removed. False reports rarely result in bans, and when they do they are usually easy to appeal. Moderation staff have a wide array of tools and logs to review what has happened either in-game or on the site, and so it is unlikely that a false report usually results in moderation action except in the case of moderator error or the player in question has done something against the rules in the past.
== Examples of false reporting ==
The most common type of false reporting is to report a player for killing another, especially if they are skilled at the particular game's combat system. Usually, the hope is that the reported player will be mistaken for a "hacker" and banned for exploiting, but this rarely actually happens. Beyond that, there are also cases where something is against the rules in the specific game but not across all of Roblox — for example, many building games that lack proper griefing protection will use in-game bans to punish players for destroying others' work, but victims of griefing will commonly and mistakenly use Roblox's report system instead of the developer's, creating what is technically also a false report.
=== Falsely reported for violating the community rules, even though the victim didn't violate the rules ===
The example down here is bullying one. This type of report, has happened to some players. Apparently, the perpetrator will accuse the victim of bullying, even though the victim did not bully anyone. They say that they didn't, but the perpetrator still thinks they bullied someone, Then they(the perpetrator) will file a report against the victim, and accuse them for bullying again, and then bullies the victim. This isn't very common. The perpetrator will then hope that the victim is banned. Again, the victim is less likely to be banned, since bans for "false reporting" are actually rare. Sometimes, the victim might fight back, and file a report against the perpetrator which is named "Revenge Reporting", after the perpetrator filed the report on the victim.
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=== Revenge reporting ===
Another notable example is revenge reporting. This is where a player knowingly and intentionally reports another as an act of revenge, usually for trivial things such as a disagreement, leaving a group, or for making a more successful game. The force of vengeance is strong; it is not uncommon for revenge reports to include actual (though often very old) offenses and to make use of multiple accounts to cause it to seem more severe than it actually is and to make it more likely for a moderator to see it: this is unlikely, as reporting a player more does not result in a higher chance of a moderator seeing it. Players who do this are often banned and their victims reinstated as soon as the victim makes an appeal.
== Notable cases ==
There have been a few cases of false reporting affecting well-known players, such as developers, YouTubers, and contest winners.
=== Flamingo ===
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Near the end of 2017, a popular Roblox YouTuber, , had been under multiple attacks of false reporting, resulting in the removal of one of his groups and places and his account being banned for three days.
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