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Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits (www.theguardian.com)
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From next month it will start enforcing facial age estimation to allow children to chat with strangers only if they are in their broad age group.

Roblox compared its new system to school cohorts such as elementary, middle school and high school. It will be introduced first in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands, where children will be blocked from privately chatting with adults they do not know in real life from next month, and in the rest of the world in early January.

Users will be placed into the following groups: under nine, nine to 12, 13 to 15, 16 to 17, 18 to 20, or 21 and over. Children will be able to chat only with others in their age group and similar ones. For example, a child with an estimated age of 12 will be able to chat only with under-16s. Images and video used for the checks would not be stored, Roblox said.

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[–] pyria@kbin.melroy.org 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be complaining about this, except I am because Roblox is operated by pedos.

Something extreme measures such as face recognition has to be taken to ensure problems like this won't happen again. However, though, pedophiles having access to data storage containing such verifications can go so wrong on so many levels.

So heres what they should do:

Fire and prosecute all of the pedos. Replace the pedos with trustworthy people to operate Roblox. Then go through verifying.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Option 2.......shut down roblox. It doesn't NEED to exist.

[–] Eranziel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I like this option best, tbh.

[–] pyria@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't get the appeal, really. It's just a lego-looking ripoff where the arms are fucking huge and everything. The things that get chosen to be popular, says a lot about people's collective tastes sometimes.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
  • is free to play
  • runs on potato computers
  • runs on potato phones
  • easy to play with friends
  • has new ~~games~~ experiences every day

I think the 2 last points are what really end up making it such a success with kids - low attrition to start and lots of different games in one place. It takes 2 clicks to go from a parkour race to a pet care sim.

When you're targeting kids, your graphics should be easy to understand. Bright colors, simple shapes, it's enough. If you think about it, those graphics wouldn't be too different from what a kid can usually draw.

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

The other big thing is it lowers the barrier to entry of making games.