The Roblox parental controls are next to useless.
A few things I’d recommend they implement is a whitelisting policy for children. The parents have to manually add the user IDs of the other players their child is allowed to interact with. If a user is not added, the child will not be able to interact with that user, although they still might be present in the world. Likewise, profiles of non-friends would be restricted, and vice versa.
Additionally, it should be an option to only allow their child to visit the worlds/games they’ve approved or whitelisted.
These aren’t ironclad methods but they’re a far cry better than what’s currently being done.
I have a very distinct memory when I was a young kid on an AOL trailer. I was in the Pokémon chat room, like I always was after school, and I started getting some weird IMs from some other guy that was in the chat, worth noting that he never typed anything in the Pokémon chat itself. He did the cliched ASL shit, and then asked me how I looked and would then try to describe me as a Pokémon trainer to get me to further judge him.
You used to be able to report people for doing this sort of crap online and get a near immediate response from a human being. I reported the strange behavior and, within minutes, an admin of the platform reached out to me, asked what was going on, and handled the situation. I’m sure he smurfed with other accounts, but I was never bothered again.
I know this isn’t possible anymore, given the size of the Internet, but there are no good ways to report this shit and receive any sort of sense of solution. Everything is automated, or worse, handled by pajeets who don’t have any empathy, understanding, or are just vile fucks and get off to it.
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My niece had her 11th birthday recently. Instead of having the usual birthday party at the skating rink or Discovery Zone ripoff, she and her friends had a party in Roblox. She was very excited to tell me about it and went on and on about how many people showed up. I’ve argued with her parents endlessly about the dangers of the game and it has fallen on deaf ears. I try my best to share in my niece’s excitement as she prattles on about this stuff, but I can’t help but dread over how many uninvited guests showed up to her little unvetted online party, and what their intent might be.