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Roblox is a huge problem for me, as a parent of a 8y kid. Let me explain: I try to block violent apps in his tablet using Google's Family app, however, Roblox internally keeps 'offering' my kid almost any game, whatever if there's violence, drugs, killing others, and so forth.

It's a headache and a source of fights, so, I thank the responsible (/sarcasm).

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Roblox really needs to create some better parental controls so that it includes the option for a parent to be required to "ok" what they call "new experiences". The various limits you can set on content are great in theory, but they are apparently impossible for Roblox to enforce and as such are meaningless.

I do like Roblox from a creator perspective (I'm not a creator) since it's rather easy to guide your children into building games rather than "just" consuming them. Something which is very hard with basically everything else they do digitally.

My kids use Roblox. There _are_ parental controls you can enable through Roblox. When my twins turned nine, I had to enable 9+ games for them. I believe the age cutoffs are 9+, 13+, and 17+. I think anything with drugs should be 17+, and realistic violence/blood might be 13+? Not totally sure.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Roblox employee, but speaking only on my own behalf, and don't work on anything related to age guidelines.)

I have my kid’s set to “all ages” (the most “restrictive” category with the most “appropriate” content) and he does get gun violence, disturbing and scary games, and games based on non-kid characters (The Amazing Digital Circus).

Sometimes a game is shown and when kid tries to access it he gets a “this game isn’t allowed by your age category” or some such. This is an unbelievably dishonest way to tempt kids into content that’s not for them. If the content is not usable for them it should just not show, period.

If you work at Roblox maybe escalate the fact that content filtering by age category is totally worthless and could use fixing.

Happy to route the feedback. Obviously we should be filtering out games that aren't accessible to a given user.

Lots of people here played Doom or Mortal Combat

It's hilarious how plain Mortal Kombat becomes without the K.

I'm not calling you out for making a typo, I'm simply amused at how much punch (no pun intended) it loses when spelled "right". I guess it's true that Ks are Kool.

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