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Community Roles/Ranks and Permissions

If you would like to grant special privileges to certain members, then the RoleSet system is the way to do it! The default community roles are Owner, Admin, Member, and Guest. Custom ranks can be created by clicking the Create Role button in the Roles section of your Configure Community page. For more information, review the How to Manage a Community help article.

How to Assign Roles to Members

As long as you are the community owner or have been assigned a role with the correct permissions by the community’s owner, you can change another user's role by doing the following:

    1. Click Community in the navigation bar on the left of the screen
    2. Find the community in question and click on it
    3. Click the three dots menu on the right of the page and click Configure Community button
    4. Click Members
    5. Find a user you would like to modify
    6. Click the drop-down box under their picture
    7. Select the role you would like to assign to that user

You will only be able to change the roles of users that are currently in roles ranked lower than yours. Additionally, you will only be able to promote users to roles ranked lower than yours.

 

Creating a New Role

If you are the community owner, you can create a brand new role for your members. Each new role will cost 25 Robux, and names cannot be used on more than one role at a time. To create a new role:

    1. Click Community in the navigation bar on the left of the screen
    2. Find the community in question and click on it
    3. Click the three dots menu on the right of the page and click Configure Community button
    4. Click Roles in the left column
    5. Click the green Create Role button
    6. Fill in the role's name, description, and rank
      • Note: Ranks must only include the numbers 1-254. Errors most commonly occur when two or more ranks have the same rank number or rank name. Special characters may also cause community ranks to not update properly.
    7. Click the green Purchase button

This will create a new role with the default permissions. To edit these permissions and see what each one does, see the following Editing A Role and Its Permissions section.

There is a hard cap of 40 ranks for each community. This includes the "Guest Rank" automatically included for all communities.

 

Editing a Role and Its Permissions

Community owners can edit roles and their permissions from within the Roles tab of the Configure Community page. Here you can change the name, description, and ranking by editing the corresponding boxes. This will display a window where you can assign special privileges. These are:

Posts

    • View Community Wall: View discussions on the community's wall.
    • Post on Community Wall: Take place in conversations on your community's wall.
    • Delete Community Wall Posts: Delete posts that other members have made on the community's wall.
    • View Community Shout: See the community status.
    • Post Community Shout: Update the community status.

Members

    • Manage Lower-Ranked Member Ranks: The ability to change the roles of other members currently assigned to a lower-ranked role. For more information, see the "How to Assign Roles to Members" section at the top of this article.
    • Accept Join Requests: If the community is currently set to require manual approval, roles with this permission can accept or deny any pending requests to join the community.
    • Ban or Kick Lower-Ranked Members: The ability to ban or kick out members assigned to lower-ranked roles.

Miscellaneous

Assets

    • Spend Community Funds: The ability to use the community's funds for certain community related actions.

    • Create Community Items: Allows for the creation of community clothing. For more information, see Community Clothing, Revenue Management, and Payouts.
    • Configure Community Items: Ability to edit already existing community clothing. For more information, see Community Clothing, Revenue Management, and Payouts.
    • Create and Edit Community Experiences: The ability to create and edit experiences that are specifically owned by the community.

Deleting Roles

Community owners are given the ability to delete roles other than Owner and Guest. That said, the name and description of the Owner role can be edited. To delete a role, click the red X located to the right of it. If there are users currently assigned to it, however, the X will be gray, and you will not be able to delete it.

 

 

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