Let’s get MasterCard on the case
Can we remove Roblox? Just…all of it?
Yeah, make kids play half-dead MMOs that will get shut down in two years, I went through that and turned out fine! /s
Oh, wow, that’s almost 0.1% of their daily users. He’s probably quaking in his boots.
I’m less confused about this happening than I am about how successfully Roblox has flown under the radar. People do not realize how big it is or how it works, and they seem not just happy to keep it that way, but actively concerned with maintaining that low profile.
Petitions like these are made to raise awareness of the issue. That’s a win even if only a tiny fraction of their userbase are involved.
No.
I mean, size matters. Tiny gestures that don’t do anything are useless by definition.
This petition isn’t even to regulate the platform or addressed to any regulatory body. As far as I can tell it’s just complaining about Roblox at Roblox.
Go after British regulators. Australian regulators. They sure seem willing to overreach under the guise of “will somebody think of the children”. Asking Roblox’s CEO to remove Roblox’s CEO sure seems like somebody would like the game to run the way they like but not for it to be removed or meaningfully changed to alter the real issues with it. It sounds like pointless whining to me, and I don’t even make any money out of this thing.
In the meantime, you are trying to convince a person to quit their extremely lucrative job by asking them nicely. Assuming the founder, CEO and single largest individual shareholder of the company needs to see, what? 10-20% of its userbase actually do something before he thinks he’s in trouble you only need to do get this a hundred to two hundred times larger for it to get noticed. More, if he’s stubborn. You may as well write a sternly written letter and flush it down the toilet.
If you want Roblox to change how it operates the people who can get that done are elected officials and regulators.
What @[email protected] was talking about was awareness, and you said no then proceeded to talk about something else entirely. It does raise awareness, as shown by the fact that we are talking about it.
There are 17 comments in this thread as of this writing, half of which are me ranting about it and a bunch of others being people unhelpfully telling a concerned parent to google what it’s about if they don’t know why Roblox is bad.
As far as I can tell his has increased awareness by one person. That is much, much less than 0.01%.
If you want awareness of the people that matter you want to get to the mianstream press, who have way more reach than Change.org, particularly with that demographic.
Once again, this is very ineffectual on all stated goals. Whehter that’s by design or through incompetence I can’t tell.
By design? Man I need me some of that tinfoil…
By design in that, as I said above, this doesn’t seem like a serious attempt to generate any change but rather a bit of a tantrum from users that don’t necessarily want meaningful changes to the crap Roblox does.
Think more Modern Warfare 2 boycott than “EU regulators looking into loot boxes”.
Considering that the whole thing stems from drama stirred by Roblox streamers and youtubers who make a living from Roblox itself I’m not feeling particularly tinfoily.
The guy who started the petition said the petition is purely to get headlines and negative press about Roblox, to hopefully drive investors away from the platform
Okay, I have a child. Can someone please explain to me what why this is a concern. I really want to know
Here’s a really good video from the guy who started the petition
Roblox uses children as unpaid labour to produce content for their platform, as well as the risk your kid runs into nazis or pedophiles on the platform. That used to be rampant, not sure if they’ve managed to get a grip on that now.
TLDR, Roblox is effectively a heavily monetized game development and social media platform aimed and run by children.
Effectively a huge treadmill of NFTs for underage users where they’re encouraged to make, buy and sell content to each other. And because millions of them log in every day also a remarkable honey pot for people wanting to interact with that audience as a bonus.
Most evidence out there is that Roblox management either actively generates this situation or is very much okay with it.
So basically if you don’t want your kids on social media unsupervised (or working for a billionaire for free) this is probably not the right place for them to be.
And granted, those are genuine “ifs”. You may not have a problem with them being in those sorts of online spaces, and learning game development via Roblox isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The lack of mainstream awareness about what’s actually in there may be the more genuinely disturbing thing about Roblox in the first place.
dont let them on vrchat, i judge the fk out of every parent allowing kids on there
Back when vr was pretty new abd even more niche than now. I heard VR chat is vool so i tried it. Ho-ly shit, it was all small people with squeeky voices. Like at least 90%. People spend like 800 dollars for a headset to keep their kids busy with complete strangers
Found this. https://m.imdb.com/es/news/ni65429148/
If you enable parent controls, it’s probably safe, but hell,I didn’t know.
If it’s really pressing, you can Google it. There are many articles detailing the predatory business practices against children by Roblox.
Ngl if 100k people thought I was doing a bad job I’d quit yesterday
But 10 million think you do a banging job.
10 million would be nice.
Try 100 million.
Roblox is a LOT bigger than people think.
The smallest game in Roblox’s top 10 as I write this would be on Steam’s top 10 by concurrent users. That’s above GTA V. The number one game on Roblox would be number 1 on Steam, ahead of CounterStrike 2 by a factor of 2.
I mean a LOT bigger.
And that’s why you aren’t a billionaire
What’s the chances the CEO is a pedophile?
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