Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits

• lilas105@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t let users talk unless they can prove they’re over 18.

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• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Roblox is making absolute bank. They have the resources to actually solve this if they wanted. They just believe the inevitable slap on the wrist will cost them less than they stand to make in the meantime.

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Absolutely! Multiple, in fact. In order of preference:

  1. Shut down the game, dissolve the company, and donate all remaining funds to a women’s shelter.
  2. Prosecute groomers instead of banning and threatening the people who are trying to stop the fuckers and crying about vigilantism even when the proper reporting channels are used.
  3. Use AI for a beneficial purpose at least one goddamn time. Scan the text and voice communications (it’s a public game, there is no expectation of privacy), flag suspicious exchanges for human review, then ban and report groomers.

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  • Naho_Zako@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly, getting rid of any chat (voice/text) and DM features would would help. I don’t think kids should completely lose online gaming, just make it almost impossible to communicate with anyone on said game. I played a shit ton of Mario Kart and Splatoon online as a kid, but neither of those games offer personal messages/chat features (unless you set them up via app), so I imagine grooming would be almost impossible.

    I don’t want to take Roblox away from kids, as I understand how fun it was growing up, especially if you can’t afford a console/games at home. But chat has to be either heavily moderated, or just entirely removed imo.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pretty sure Club Penguin only let you choose from a predetermined list of ready phrases, it worked well afaik. Roblox could do that, but something something engagement

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• altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Them having an office large enough to moderate in-game communications, on every popular language? They have some billions to spare. Serving kids requires a lot of work they have neglected for a very long time.

  Facebook was a vehicle for hateful, genocidal messages in Myanmar, and they seemingly got of the hook having no person understanding local language on the market they occupied.

  If Roblox primarily targets kids, they can’t go without agressive moderation, psy-help on demand, things one would find obvious, but these are never required, not to say it’s not that sexy as getting profits and cutting corners.

  I don’t know if their business model would be viable if they started things right from the beginning, but it would be more stressful to them to finally start doing something about that.

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• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Emote only chat

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