Online dating

Online Daters (commonly abbreviated as ODers) are players who perform the act of having romantic, sexual, or obscene discussions towards one another or participate in dating within an online game. Online dating is discouraged in various internet communities, including ROBLOX. Anyone who does participate in said activity are usually reported to the moderators or administrators.

Roleplays, Stereotypes, and Online Dating
Multiple discussions have occurred regarding whether roleplaying romantic actions and online dating are synonymous. According to ROBLOX Rules of Conduct, online dating is prohibited. Extremely sexual discussions, such as during roleplays, are prohibited by ROBLOX's Terms of Service and can lead to the suspension of one's account.

Over the past few years, multiple stereotypes have formed regarding online daters. Online daters are typically stereotyped as dressing as realistically as possible; many assets on ROBLOX, including packages and hats are stereotyped as "ODer items", and players who wear these items are typically and prematurely identified as online daters,usually even if they aren't doing anything related to dating.

Assets Known as "ODer items" within the ROBLOX Community

 * Cinnamon Hair


 * Snake Eyes
 * Traffic Cone (although this has started to lose association with ODers)
 * Superhero
 * I Didn't Eat That Cookie
 * Mr. Chuckles
 * Shaggy
 * chill
 * Beautiful Hair for Beautiful People
 * Robloxian 2.0
 * Shiny Teeth


 * Awkward....
 * Braces
 * Sigmund
 * Man (although not entirely known)
 * Woman (also not entirely known)
 * Socialite(http://www.roblox.com/Socialite-item?id=24341406)(also not entirely known)

Criticism
Online dating is unwanted by many ROBLOXians and encouraged by very few people. Aside from not fitting with the kid-friendly nature of Roblox, there is also a risk associated with online relationships; online dating is often seen as a predatory act and, in extreme cases, can result in outside interventions.

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. Often times, modern roleplaying games, though not explicitly stated as a place for online dating, are common places for online daters. Such examples include Adopt and Raise a Baby, ROBLOX High School, ROBLOX Town, Raise a Family in the Town of Robloxia.

Trivia

 * Many roleplay games experience issues with online daters. Anti-online dating scripts have been created by these game creators 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.
 * During 2012, ReeseMcBlox, a ROBLOX administrator, released a thread on the forums that explained why online dating is prohibited.
 * Online Dating could make your account Banned.