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Petition to remove Roblox CEO reaches 100k signatures amid child safety concerns (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago* (12 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    What @RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 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.

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  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    By design? Man I need me some of that tinfoil...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    trust me it's real easy to OD. try easier metals like aluminium foil before you work yourself all the way up to tin

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. In the off chance you're not, tinfoil is a colloquialism for aluminum foil (at least in North America), so I don't think OP actually means tin foil.

    If it was sarcasm, please disregard.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The design was to stir up negative press

    And by the fact that there was an article posted about it within a day of the petition starting, I'd say it was pretty successful

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago

    No, it wasn't.

    Look, I know big numbers are hard and human brains don't want to parse them, but come on.

    You're talking about an article on Dexerto, a medium that I'm sure has done great work between its founding and my just realizing they exist right now. There are a few other articles online, most in smaller sites or in aggregators.

    You are talking about a massive social-media-meets-gaming-platform the size of Twitter on a good day, orders of magnitude bigger than the reach any of this crap got. This is nothing. It's a PR stunt from a few youtubers, which I hate that I have now focused on enough to understand.

    I agree that it's designed to drum up attention. Just not that this attention is meant to be effective at anything at all beyond, one suspects, driving viewership, because it sure as hell isn't targeting anything that may cause any action.

    Maybe this is why people don't pay attention to Roblox despite being as large as Steam. The dissonance is just too large. It sucks, because despite the remarkable trivialization of the issue there should be way more eyeballs on this. Real eyeballs. Eyeballs attached to hands holding pens that can sign proper regulations, or at least scare some knee-jerky intermediaries.

    Somehow a thousand assholes with customer support addresses managed to ban half of the smut on Steam, but these people figured out they'd gather a hundred times as many signatures and point them at the one person in the entire planet guaranteed to ignore them.

    I am tired. I don't want to think about this anymore.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    He did address it to the single largest individual investor. Unfortunately that also happens to be the one guy he's supposed to be trying to get fired.

    Guessing he's not going to be game, and I doubt the multiple investment groups making billions out of this thing are much more concerned, especially since despite this information beign publicly available, none of them are even mentioned in the petition itself either.

    The fact that people keep linking me to this guy's video only reinforces my suspicion that getting traffic to this guy's Roblox-focused Youtube channel is far more of a goal here.

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