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ChadBrazilian said:
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Hiyourasa's entire page is just porn - really autistic porn. Go to her page at your own risk.
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Twitter will protect perverts by gaslighting people into thinking they are promoting them by talking about them.
 
New Ruben Sim vid, talking about Roblox's broken reporting system.
tl;dw: 100 blatant porn accounts. Detailed reports explaining exactly how each account broke the rules. 72 hours later, 0% of accounts banned.
 
I've published a research paper on the failure rate of Roblox reports.

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The MFD team and I spent ~50 combined hours running an experiment designed to test how effective Roblox reports are. We took a sample of 200 of the most obvious and inappropriate sex accounts we could find, reported 100 (experiment group) and left 100 untouched (control group). After a 72 hour observation period, we discovered that zero of these accounts were deleted. This implies single reports have a failure rate of 100%, even for the most serious safety issues.
 
It is sad but unless you find a way to threahten their wallets they will not listen.

It is a great video, and it proves the point so well that it's depressing to see. Hopefully it gains enough traction, all of the luck to you.
 
Ruben Sim said:
I've published a research paper on the failure rate of Roblox reports.

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The MFD team and I spent ~50 combined hours running an experiment designed to test how effective Roblox reports are. We took a sample of 200 of the most obvious and inappropriate sex accounts we could find, reported 100 (experiment group) and left 100 untouched (control group). After a 72 hour observation period, we discovered that zero of these accounts were deleted. This implies single reports have a failure rate of 100%, even for the most serious safety issues.
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This is... Disheartening, to say the least. Actual kids play this game, and I'm sure more than a couple are now fucked up from these weirdo groomers, and nobody cares, it seems. Where do we even go with this information? It seems like nobody with the power to do anything has any interest in stopping it.
 
Ruben Sim said:
I've published a research paper on the failure rate of Roblox reports.

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The MFD team and I spent ~50 combined hours running an experiment designed to test how effective Roblox reports are. We took a sample of 200 of the most obvious and inappropriate sex accounts we could find, reported 100 (experiment group) and left 100 untouched (control group). After a 72 hour observation period, we discovered that zero of these accounts were deleted. This implies single reports have a failure rate of 100%, even for the most serious safety issues.
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If "single reports on accounts" are so ineffectual one must wonder to what extent is the Roblox report system automated and what part of it is manually done by people. If bans are automated at all what is the threshold for action to be taken and what is the punishment an account receives?
 
Bet they'd ban an account that said "there are only two genders" but would continue to circle the drain when given evidence of actual pedophiles.
 

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UERISIMILITUDO said:
I remember reading a recollection of exactly that. A child had logged in to a computer looking for games, bothering adults through the electronic mail system, and it took the guy in charge a little while to realize a child was accessing the government computer somehow.
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You might have misremembered watching WarGames.
 
Ruben Sim said:
I've published a research paper on the failure rate of Roblox reports.

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The MFD team and I spent ~50 combined hours running an experiment designed to test how effective Roblox reports are. We took a sample of 200 of the most obvious and inappropriate sex accounts we could find, reported 100 (experiment group) and left 100 untouched (control group). After a 72 hour observation period, we discovered that zero of these accounts were deleted. This implies single reports have a failure rate of 100%, even for the most serious safety issues.
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The accompanying video for this paper actually had me on the edge of my seat during the part where all the profiles were getting opened at the end of the study to see how many were banned. The sheer number of accounts included in the study (and the monumental level of negligence on Roblox's part, that none of them were suspended) is unreal to me, and I can't even imagine how horrified childrens' parents would be to see it.

And to think: the shock is only gonna get worse as the big data-visualization project that Ruben and @grand larsony are working on brings the full scale of the issue into focus. If I were a day-trading man, I'd be shorting RBLX hard as fuck right now.
 
Northern Blockhead said:
This is sort of related to Roblox, because is it me, or is Fortnite trying to copy Roblox?
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"Copy" is a silly way of putting it, but yes, they're trying to compete with ROBLOX in that Epic is trying to turn it into a child-oriented general entertainment platform as opposed to just a child-oriented Battle Royale. They started doing this a while back when they were pushing the UE4 user gamemodes, and recently with Festival/LEGO/Rocket Racing they're trying to place more emphasis on it as a general "game development" platform in a similar vein to ROBLOX. Because of the way Fortnite generally just sort of plays and the closed nature of the tools they give you it's not really the same thing; you still feel like you're playing something that branches off of Fortnite as opposed to a game on a game development platform.
 
Outland Cow said:
"Copy" is a silly way of putting it, but yes, they're trying to compete with ROBLOX in that Epic is trying to turn it into a child-oriented general entertainment platform as opposed to just a child-oriented Battle Royale. They started doing this a while back when they were pushing the UE4 user gamemodes, and recently with Festival/LEGO/Rocket Racing they're trying to place more emphasis on it as a general "game development" platform in a similar vein to ROBLOX. Because of the way Fortnite generally just sort of plays and the closed nature of the tools they give you it's not really the same thing; you still feel like you're playing something that branches off of Fortnite as opposed to a game on a game development platform.
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A lot of companies probably see the Roblox model of "have players make the actual games while we just officially oversee everything and make the real money" as a goal that if reached would be extremely lucrative.
 
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