Hidenburg research’s business model is to produce hit pieces to then short sell the company they attack. They have monetary incentives to attack companies, I don’t know if they’re trustworthy.
yeah but everyone knows roblox is a pedophile hellscape
I’d say it could go either way. You could publish a positive piece on a company and then buy stock in them. They can make a profit whether their research turns out positive or negative. This would however give them an incentive to sensationalize their results, to exaggerate their findings, be they positive or negative.
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.
kids will just make a new account to evade the parental controls. they don’t really work ime
You can hold their previous achievements hostage and only give Robux on the original account.
Robux
NO
Fair enough. I get Robux through Microsoft Rewards though, and I’d rather Microsoft lose money than Roblox.
good lord. that just started out bad and started spiraling into absolute chaos really REALLY fast.
i didn’t know the extent. that is fucking hellish.
edit: why the downvotes? am I missing something? I’d appreciate being informed if I’m wrong.
maybe a bunch of roblox pedos downvoting to suppress the news?
I’m just going to assume that’s the case until someone gives me an actual reason. lol
