User blog:EliteWolf Animates/Problems with Roblox's New Blog Post

''Please take into consideration: I am not against ROBLOX in any way, shape, or form. This entire blog post is my opinion and my critism. If you cannot handle an opinion or critism, please exit from this blog post. Thanks.''

ROBLOX has recently created a new blog post regarding chat apps. After reviewing this entire blog post, I was fairly disappointed to see that this was just a blog post bragging about "how great the moderation is" and "how Discord is not safe for your child." This entire blog post does seem that it was created to trick parents into believing in what ROBLOX says. But in reality, the blog post can be proven fake in many ways.

First in the blog post, they discuss how children love to push boundaries. I would say that is agreeable in many cases. In the second paragraph is where they discuss how this applies to rules. Again, agreeable. It is not until paragraph four where the lies start flowing in.

This following statement is highly innacurate and just another way ROBLOX is bragging about how "great their moderation is": "We don’t allow sharing of images or video and every piece of communication is scanned by automated filters for inappropriate language and over 800 human moderators review content 24×7. We update our chat filter technology every minute of every day to detect and block any new words or inappropriate themes." (-ROBLOX, 2019.)

In the first sentence, they state that they don't allow the sharing of images or video. It is true that there is no possible way to upload video. But really... images? I wonder what the decal system is then. They later on say that they filter inappropriate language with 800 human moderators. It's ironic enough that ROBLOX doesn't ban actual cuss words but ban 'uwu' and 'ok'. And also the fact that they state 'human moderators' sounds sketchy. Why would you need to state that your moderators are humans? The overall idea that they have 800 moderators that review content 24/7 is just beyond false.

It is likely that the moderation team is only a couple people and review content every couple hours. This can be proven on how a game regarding 18+ can stay up on the actual platform for weeks. But here they are, deleting Weight Lifting Sim 3 with no warning whatsoever. (Which yes, is back up now.) And finally, the statement that they "block any new words or inappropriate themes"

Many of these themes are generally appropriate, but it looks like ROBLOX doesn't want to promote that stuff. Which gets annoying when people still say 'Hit or miss?' still. (How isn't that banned but PewDiePie is?)

Later on in the passage... "But teens crave freedom and social interaction is a compelling part of gameplay, which is why third-party chat apps, like Discord, are so enticing. They give teens a way to use more colorful language and post content that may be considered inappropriate as they play games with their friends. Unfortunately, because many of these chat apps are designed for older audiences, they have far fewer restrictions and moderation. While that’s appealing to gamers who want to interact with friends, it also attracts bad actors with serious malicious intent. Older players are equipped to navigate in these environments, but younger players, not so much."

This entire excerpt is literally ROBLOX complaining how Discord has bad moderation and promotes bad actors with illegal backgrounds. Isn't it ironic that ROBLOX calls out Discord for having poor moderation, when in fact, Discord has much, MUCH better moderation than ROBLOX. Not to mention, an average robloxian in discord would be in several ROBLOX-related servers. And shockingly enough, these Discord servers handle situations far more better moderation than Discord.

Children-capturing on Discord is highly uncommon. Like you'll have to actually try to get one come to you. Throughout my four years on Discord, I have never came across one of those type of people or anyone relating to this topic in any way. And believe it or not, I have came across them on ROBLOX. (I have encountered about five since re-joining ROBLOX in August.)

In another excerpt,
 * Adults Only: There are some platforms popular with gamers which are more geared toward an adult audience, so keep talking to your kids and teens about where they “hang out” online. For example, Discord is intended for 13+ users, so they will likely be communicating with adults on that platform.
 * No Judgment: If your teen talks to you about inappropriate content on chat applications, listen with neutrality. If teens feel they are being blamed or judged, they may not come to you again or may decide to hold back in sharing important information you could use to help them.
 * Empower, Don’t Panic: Make sure your kids and teens know how to report harmful content. Go through the process of reporting something with them to build their confidence. Explain to kids and teens they are not “tattletales” but helping to protect others from getting hurt.

This excerpt shows another refrence to Discord, showing how negative they are about moderation. And as in that first section, many ROBLOX-Related servers are moderated by older teens and young adults. And in fact, many ROBLOX developers & staff are adults as well. So I don't see the problem.

'No Judgment' does make some fair points, but it is secretly refrencing Discord. (Just a parent to parent conversation there.)

The final section is just explaining reporting. I don't think parents should waste their time explaining reporting to their child. When, as mentioned earlier, many of the moderation sucks and most reported content isn't even bothered to be reviewed for hours or days after.

That is all that is really fake in this blog post. This is just explaining to parents how to handle chatroom safety. This entire blog post is just ROBLOX bragging about how reliable their moderation is and putting other chatroom websites (that do really successful btw) down because of the lack of moderation they have, when ROBLOX too, has that problem. I do believe that this might result in disputes between ROBLOX and Discord in the near future. But it's really sad to see that ROBLOX took time out of their day to annoy parents about chatroom safety when it's literally just a way to demote other websites.

And the sad thing, ROBLOX still has a feature that lets you link your Discord Server in games. Sad.

Thanks.

EliteData 22:06, May 31, 2019 (UTC)