Just another child grooming way for those perverts.
"A mother has hit out at the makers of a game that is popular with children after a ‘friend’ invited her into a sex room. The woman, who only gave her name as Peggy, said she was watching her daughter play the game Roblox when the incident occurred.
She immediately took the game away from the girl then explored what was happening so that she could warn other parents. She told Kidspot: ‘Luckily I was sitting next to her and noticed out of the corner of my eyes that one of the characters had breasts so it made me look closer.’"
https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/05/girl-6-invited-sex-room-playing-childrens-video-game-roblox-7605376/
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markrod420 ago
i love how she blames the makers of the game. as a software developer the only reason i havent created some form of social media is specifically because i dont know how to manage all the pedophiles and porn. its not really that easy. sure its easy enough when a parent sees it and reports it. but even then you will get kids who discover they can use that to get people banned from the game and you will get false reports. its HARD to prevent sick pedophile fucks from using your platform for their sick pedo shit. shit is disgusting, but i dont see how roblox is supposed to prevent sickos from using their stuff.
cantfindmenow ago
It's easy to create a Regex - regular expression - to replace any suggestive words displayed with #### or whatever. There may be some false negatives but it keeps the pedos out so worth doing and not difficult. A site I helped make used this and banned users for 24 hours if they did type a banned word ie 'sex' a false positive is if a kid meant to type 'sux' and it was a typo and they got banned but regardless the word sex wouldn't appear if you use regex. Basic stuff for programmers!
markrod420 ago
have you ever played that shitty penguine game? there are a lot of hangups that come with that kind of shit. and ive never wanted to make some ultra safe child level shit where it would be okay to just censor any and all bad words. im talking about making a social media site. you cant just ban bad words. that only works for things that explicitly cater to very young children. the inabaility to say damn or friggin is very discouraging to everyone above 5 years old. and if it was that easy for you to do it was probably done like shit and had constant false positives and was massively discouraging to users.
cantfindmenow ago
Yeh club penguin? It was aimed at under 12s so it kinda worked, they censored everything but it was appropiate fro the age range (my kids played it at age 5) problem Roblox have is its aimed at 12+ so you will have tweens who want to experiment with the naughty words and then that attracts pedos! And yeh lol the project I helped on wasn't very good, the bans put users off and they could still get round words by replacing letters or using spaces if they wanted but mods were in place which was fine for a small scale project. I still think roblox shouldnt allow the characters to be in those positions though. Did you see what happened with Habbo Hotel? It became a Pedo haven... https://www.dailydot.com/news/habbo-hotel-pedophile-sex-chat/
markrod420 ago
i did see some kind of possibly humping motion at one point which seems like it shouldnt exist. but if you give players the ability to crouch they will tea bag each other. thats just the way it goes lol.