Roblox It is a success that has100 million active usersevery month, more than Minecraft, but this online community has its problems. According to NBC New,the game abounds with supremacist and racist messages, visible to the youngest.
The difficulty of moderating this content allows many accounts to be cast with hate profiles, anti-Semitic or directly Nazi language, showing uniforms of this ideology. NBC News, along with the help of another Twitter user, was able to findover 100 accounts featuring extremist and racist content, including an old neo-Nazi coded language with phrases like Gas Jews! and usernames that include WhiteRaceBestRace (White race is the best race), the article says.Robloxdeleted those accounts after being denounced, butthe problem is the ease of entering these messages.
We employmore than 800 human moderators. They review millions of pieces of content per month, use automated machine learning technology to monitor communication between players, and empower players in our community and parents to report misbehavior or content.
RobloxIt continues to rampage and capture the attention of younger players. According to the last entry of theblogfrom the development studio,Roblox Corporation, the game features 100 million active users every month.
In Roblox rocash the players have at their disposala set of tools to create your own virtual worlds, and even share small minigames. To get an idea of how popular the game is becoming,its 100 million monthly active users have exceeded 91 millionofMinecraft, after the figures were released in March (viaPCGamesN).
As a form of thanksfor the demonstrated commitment, from Roblox Corporation they are giving the playersan accessoryfor your avatars:some shoulder pads shaped like gold bars.
Among some of the popular games that users can create onRoblox, we findJailbreak. The mechanics are simple: some playerstake on the role of criminals trying to escape prison, while others will act as police. Sounds typical police and thievesbut the formula has worked well.The creators of this type of games can win Robux, the currency of the game, whichcan exchange for real money. This mechanism to incentivize creators has allowedthree teenagers have become millionaires.
Controversy over the violation of the avatar of a seven-year-old girl in a popular video game
Roblox, a platform where users can create their own virtual universes to play online, has deleted the game that the little girl accessed after the mother's complaint
In Roblox creativity is welcome. In this video game platform for minors, users can not only participate in the games, but also create their own virtual universes and make them available to the Internet community. But the security of the virtual space is not always 100% guaranteed.
Roblox has deleted one of its games after the mother of a seven-year-old girl reported on Facebook, with included screenshots, that he had surprised his daughter while witnessing the violation of his own virtual character by other users. The case has generated outrage from other members of the virtual community.
Roblox, whose product has more than 60 million users worldwide, ensures that the rules and filters to avoid inappropriate or offensive content are strict. The company claims that the person responsible for the content has been permanently banned from the platform.
Amber Petersen, a mother from North Carolina (USA), told Facebook that on the morning of June 28 she was reading a story to her seven-year-old daughter, while the girl was using Roblox with her iPad.
Suddenly, the little girl showed her the screen. I could not believe what I was seeing, the virtual female character of my adorable and innocent daughter was suffering a group rape by two boys, she wrote on the social network.
Petersen also added some images of the scene in the comments on her post. Words cannot describe the shock, disgust and remorse I feel right now, but I try to put these feelings aside to issue this warning to others as soon as possible, added the woman. Petersen explained that she and her husband had put all of the privacy settings provided by Roblox at the highest possible level.
The American's post generated a reaction of outrage from many Facebook users that Petersen has on his friends list. It's so difficult to trust technology, said a user named Jenny Mundell.
Others expressed their amazement at what happened and showed solidarity with the victim's mother. This newspaper has contacted Roblox to find out how it planned to cover the situation.
We are outraged after learning that community policies andrules of conductRoblox were sabotaged, a company spokesperson replied in an email. We have identified how this troubled person was able to carry out such an offensive action, and we are establishing additional security measures to reduce the possibility of this happening again. in the future, he added.
Roblox prohibits in its regulations any action that could put children in an inappropriate or dangerous situation and in general, any type of bullying orcyberbullying. The company explains that it has two ways to control how users behave on the platform.
On the one hand, there is a human team that checks that the games that are created do not have inappropriate content and monitors interactions between users. On the other hand, there is also a system of self-regulation of the virtual community itself. Users can report inappropriate behavior and request immediate intervention from the control team.
Roblox claims that in the case involving this girl in the US, the person responsible for the situation did not create the game in the conventional way, but managed to use a strategy to go as unnoticed as possible. The company admits that, in some cases, human failure can occur in the content control phase, but the reaction to fix the problem is usually very quick.
The author of the scenes of sexual violence shown by Petersen on Facebook, according to Roblox, will not be able to access the platform in any way. The company maintains that its executives are already working with women so that, with their feedback, the platform is even safer for children. Petersen published on Facebook a message received from the company with the same content of the email sent by the company to EL PAÍS.
