Roblox October Outage Postmortem

Re:Roblox October Outage Postmortem by ineedasername on Thursday January 20, 2022 @08:29PM (#30018000)

I'm not sure either. Particularly how, even in the presence of any policies, they could police the system: Does YouTube send someone around to check on the Ryan's World kid and the work environment?

Even with child labor policies it doesn't seem like platforms would be much better at managing them than content moderation.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Roblox October Outage Postmortem by Wowfunhappy on Thursday January 20, 2022 @09:10PM (#30018338)

Well, which is why I don't think Roblox should be allowed to pay children at all.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Roblox October Outage Postmortem by lmm on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:20AM (#30020673)

That seems like it would be far worse for the children in question than the current situation.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Roblox October Outage Postmortem by ineedasername on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:24PM (#30030197)

A partial solution might be that games by developers without legal age verification can't utilize real money transactions via the Robux currency. That way Roblox isn't rewarded directly for it either.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Roblox October Outage Postmortem by lmm on Sunday January 23, 2022 @08:39PM (#30052672)

Your solution to children who want to sell things on Roblox getting exploited by unscrupulous middlemen agencies is to make it impossible to bypass those agencies?

[ Parent | on HN ]