Roblox constantly battles content that goes against its terms of service, particularly an underground network of pornographic worlds called “condo” games. There’s a dark side to this e-commerce content creation model, however. The Roblox Studio is a free game development environment where kids and professionals alike can create and publish games, experiences, outfits, and other digital items, potentially earning Robux that can be converted back to dollars. Monetizing content incentivizes the extremeĪ unique aspect of Roblox as a gaming platform is the agency it gives players and developers to create infinite new games and worlds of experience – and get paid for them. As its popularity and scale grows, however, it will need to strengthen its focus on bad actors, particularly those driven by the monetization of extreme content. As a children’s platform, Roblox has clear terms of service and actively censors and monitors language and communications, avoiding the free speech argument that many social networks face. Whilst the games act as sub-communities (groups being a problematic area for Facebook), there’s very loose social connection between players and little to no ability to post point-of-view content or engage in discussion around controversial topics, thus largely sidestepping the problems of misinformation and community radicalization.Īs a company, it does a lot of things right when it comes to content moderation and enforcing good community behavior standards. The good news is that Roblox has so far done a successful job avoiding many of the risks that such a platform faces. Moreover, for kids and teens, rules are made to be broken and they will continue to push the boundaries of Roblox’s moderation system. That being said, even if only 0.1% of a user population are bad actors, with scale that results in tens of thousands of bad actors attempting to evade controls at any given time.

Algorithms and moderators scrub chats and posts of personal information and the Roblox platform does not support the sending of images or video. Roblox does have some controls in place to mitigate bad behavior.

Roblox is corporate