Board Thread:Roblox help and discussion/@comment-4196050-20180623113029/@comment-25309409-20180718232040

Deeeno wrote: Ilovejamaa74 wrote: Let me tell y'all a little story:

Online dating is NOT unique to Roblox. Kids' MMOGs will always have these annoying adults trying to date and do some disgusting stuff. Trust me, I've been to Club Penguin, Animal Jam, and Panfu and people there were asking for boy/girlfriends. Even Animal Jam was controversial at one point for online daters doing the nasty. This is very true. Generally, since Roblox's demographic is quite young, it is more likely than other communities to have online daters. For this reason, I don't feel the need to judge players if they decide to online date. That doesn't change the fact you shouldn't be doing it on Roblox, though.

One might say that there are 'too many' online daters on Roblox. Well, that's tough, because the Roblox playerbase is rather large. People only think there's "too many" OD'ers due to how much people blow the subject out of proportion, as well as several popular cosmetics being stereotyped as such (notable examples include the Frost Guard General and Superhero packages, as well as the Bear Mask, all of which I absolutely loathe the sight of even more than the 3.0 packages being used unironically, namely due to them being worn by complete idiots half the time). The latter of which is essentially why the term became misused beyond belief, much like "noob".

I highly doubt most of the "OD'ers" are above the age of 13, and are just kids trying to act like they're hot stuff when they're ending up making themselves look foolish in the process. And then afterwards, they're likely going to just grow out of it and likely make fun of those kinds of players in the process -- providing they don't end up being like the "anti-OD'er" crowd, which is honestly just as foolish as what they oppose, as harassment is arguably a worse rule violation than simply just pretending you have a virtual girlfriend just to flex on people for half an hour.

Regardless, I don't see it as too much of an issue. As stated before, most kids aren't really into it at all and are just doing it because they think it will make them look cool. The only time it becomes a serious issue is when it goes 18+, which is a clear ToS violation, but that only really happens on very rare occasions (and when that happens, it's almost by some exploiter with "le haha funni phallus script xdddd"). All other times, it's at most just cringeworthy, but harmless.

'''tl;dr: Y'all need to stop freaking out about "OD'ers". It's not as huge of a problem as some of you make it out to be.'''