Online dating

Online dating, commonly abbreviated as ODing on ROBLOX, is the practice of searching for a romantic or sexual partner on the internet. People who online date are known as online daters, who are commonly abbreviated as ODers. Online dating is strongly discouraged by various Internet communities, including ROBLOX. Online dating is against ROBLOX's rules of conduct, and anyone who participates in said activities risks getting punished.

Throughout ROBLOX's development, multiple stereotypes have formed regarding online daters. Players often stereotype online daters as avatars whose characters dress as realistically as possible; many assets on ROBLOX, including packages and hats, as well as faces like the Shiny Teeth face are stereotyped as "ODer items", and players who wear these items are often prematurely identified as online daters.

Criticism
Online dating is a problem on ROBLOX. It is unwanted by most in the community and encouraged by very few people. Aside from not fitting with the kid-friendly nature of ROBLOX, there are risks associated with online dating given the anonymity on the platform. The word ODer is also filtered on ROBLOX for players with an account under the age of 13, which limits how players can call out people who online date.

Stereotypes can result in harassment against perceived online daters. Several players have been accused of online dating for their characters being "dressed up realistically".

Many players have accused ROBLOX of encouraging online daters to play the game, possibly because of the development of the new Anthro avatar type.

Many players think ROBLOX does not ban ODers because some buy ROBUX and they might lose revenue.

The Player They Username ODers "XxUsernamexX" "iiOmqUsername" "iiUsernameii" "Omq_Username"

Games encouraging online dating
Though ROBLOX's Rules of Conduct prohibit builders from creating games that are designed for players to get together romantically, there are some loopholes to this rule; though a game may not be intended to be used romantically, the nature of the game may promote online dating. Such examples of common online dating hotspots include role-playing games, Girls Only games, and middle/high school/college games. Places themed after clubs are also prone to online daters and players who wish to engage in lewd or otherwise lewd acts in-game. For games that might hint at online dating potential, game creators might often leave game names and descriptions vague in order to satisfy ROBLOX's game creation policies. For instance, naming a place Create a Family could imply that some sexual acts could be performed in the game as a way to produce a child. This violates ROBLOX's place creation policies. Naming a game Adopt a Baby would not imply any lewd content within the game and would be an allowed game. This allows games like Adopt and Raise a Baby to be on the front page without being taken down for mature content, even if players utilize that game to online date. However, some of these games may be put Under Review eventually, when enough players have reported the game.

Because of the issues with online dating within ROBLOX games, anti-online dating scripts have been created by game creators and scripters that reprimand users who post specific prohibited words. One of these users, Person299, a user famous for his admin scripts, has developed a script that kicks a player if they say a certain word twice.

The Termination of Tremity and Games_Page
On December 6th, 2017, Tremity and his alt Games_Page were banned, a day later people who joined the Adopt and Raise A Cute Kid game were teleported to a copied version of the game. A few hours after that the original and copied versions of AaRaCK were shut down. The termination of Tremity received positive feedback from Anti-ODers, as they believe it could be a sign of Roblox doing something to prevent online dating.

Behavior of an ODer
To identify a ODer, you have to identificate their behaviour.
 * 1) Are they hinting to or blatantly wanting a boyfriend or girlfriend?
 * 2) Do they have words like "single" or "cute" in their username or roleplay name?
 * 3) Does their bio include things like "I love (username)" or "💗 (username) 💗"?
 * 4) Do they ask things on their feed or about like "ABC for a [boy or girl]" or "Friend to have ###"
 * 5) ODers will typically do these things. If someone does any of these things, they are an ODer. Also consider how they are dressed. If someone is saying things like "Wanna date?" but they are dressed like a troll, they are likely just trolling. Still kindly ask them to not do that. Online daters usually dress in realistic clothing because that is what they're attracted to, but most people who dress realistic are NOT ODers.
 * 6) Most ODers can be found in games like ROBLOX High School, Adoption games, and Dance Clubs.