As someone that’s worked in trust and safety for a decade. None of this is new nor unique to Roblox, and Robloxs moderation is better than most.
Every single site, game, online space, program, app, etc that has interactive features has both pedophiles and children on it interacting without active monitoring.
It’s a fact of the Internet. The best you can do is leverage warn and monitor key phrase lists to take action when conversation veers to the obvious inappropriate line. Nothing anyone can do will ever prevent or stop this interaction.
Roblox has robust parental controls, including blocking all forms of chat entirely. If parents fail to use them, as is nearly always the case in modern cases where children are chatting with predators, that’s on the parents. There literally isn’t a solution that isn’t either require an id to access online services, which is a no go in any intelligent society, or disabled chat on any game that a child could reasonably access, which would kill online gaming entirely.
If they have parental controls, I definitely agree they’re doing a sizable chunk of their job right there. I just thought it was worth mentioning as it wasn’t part of your “doing everything you can do” bit.
As someone that’s worked in trust and safety for a decade. None of this is new nor unique to Roblox, and Robloxs moderation is better than most.
Every single site, game, online space, program, app, etc that has interactive features has both pedophiles and children on it interacting without active monitoring.
It’s a fact of the Internet. The best you can do is leverage warn and monitor key phrase lists to take action when conversation veers to the obvious inappropriate line. Nothing anyone can do will ever prevent or stop this interaction.
Not saying if they do or don’t, but if you’re going to target kids, extremely robust parental controls should also be obligatory.
Roblox has robust parental controls, including blocking all forms of chat entirely. If parents fail to use them, as is nearly always the case in modern cases where children are chatting with predators, that’s on the parents. There literally isn’t a solution that isn’t either require an id to access online services, which is a no go in any intelligent society, or disabled chat on any game that a child could reasonably access, which would kill online gaming entirely.
If they have parental controls, I definitely agree they’re doing a sizable chunk of their job right there. I just thought it was worth mentioning as it wasn’t part of your “doing everything you can do” bit.