Depending, since some players can make innapropiate things in lot of things. On a building game or F3X they can make innapropiate things too. I think that they can be allowed but maybe only with a systems that detects If someone is making something innapropiate or not. And yea, that’s my opinion.
I would say drawing games are the same equilvancy as speaking in game. It’s hard to control the inappropriate language unlike that of a chat. Unless you have an algorithm set up to catch a drawing that resembles anything like an inappropriate symbol or image.
The problem even with that is, what if your algorithm picks up a symbol that isn’t appropriate and bans the kid and reports the player to Roblox?
As of right now I don’t see a drawing game like “Draw Something”, being a viable option.
But, do not count out this idea in the future, who knows what steps Roblox will take in the future.
Well, maybe Roblox could consider enabling those games only for a certain age range?
You can’t shelter children from everything. Just because you can ruin an experience with someone perverse doesn’t mean it should be 100% removed.
Lets say we removed drawing games from roblox, what then? What about shooting games that allow you to "draw’ things with bullet-holes? Are we going to ban bullet-holes from roblox? A couple bad apples shouldn’t ruin the batch. Just report the user to roblox, kick them from the game and move on. Even roblox’s chat filter has huge blatant flaws but they’re not going to remove chatting from the game.
Roblox has a legal and social obligation to safeguard children on its platform. It isn’t a matter of fairness - it’s about protecting children and vulnerable users from being able to share personal information, be exposed to extremist / violent / pornographic content, or otherwise be endangered.
That is the paramount concern, and where there is a definite and unmitigated risk for that kind of issue to happen in drawing games there is an obligation for Roblox to moderate it accordingly.
They should just make drawing games for 13+ or something. They shouldn’t be banned but they should be moderated and have a report button for drawing.
Or as others have said, an AI to detect bad drawings.
Unless there is a system that moderates each drawing and can recognize any inappropriate or Profanity than yea but if theres none of those I would say big no
I’d say no, because I played a game like this once, and (Unfortunately), lots of people wrote inappropriate words in their drawings .
The ideology behind an attempt to filter 100% of all inappropriate content accurately is simply absurd. Roblox, being an online multiplayer CREATION platform integrated with various methods of communication and a poorly performing chat filter already throws the idea of a 100% kid-friendly experience out the window, and that’s simply the reality of it.
The idea of trying to remove drawing based games from the platform is simply an idea that would be frowned upon by the majority of the Developer Community as it would just be a poorly made decision aiming towards a goal that is nonexistent.
If anything, its better to have drawing games on Roblox rather than the user going to a third party site where inappropriate drawings are probably not the objective, but also not against rules (skribbl.io).
Taking a realistic approach, I would voice what others have said. Basically, theres the line between knowing what the drawing is, and not. In either case, what can not allowing drawing games on Roblox do?
Why not encourage parents to simply tell the kids the truth about the stuff we consider “inappropriate” instead of alienating it.
Therefore making everything “Appropriate”
My opinion on the matter has actually changed drastically compared to my first response, I think most kids 6-7+ would already know that nudity or bad words etc in a kid friendly game is inappropriate
I personally don’t think rarely occurring incidents of this are that impactful, but I still believe that the developer should try to prevent this from occurring as best as they can, and perhaps to have some sort of warning that this can rarely happen
If there was a option for 13+ I wouldn’t have a problem with this at all, but I’m still unsure about 12-
They should be allowed, but with either an AI that can detect inappropriate words/drawings, or the game could just be 13+, or a flagging system in which if a player gets flagged by multiple different players, they get kicked/banned (basically votekick) - could also be just reporting them and their drawing to moderators etc.
And… the thing that @LowPolys said could happen but the problem is that, kids these days know stuff… whether they’re young or not
But anyways, drawing games are a part of roblox so they shouldn’t be banned at all. Just try any solutions and it will be totally appropriate, I guess?
If it’s still gonna be a problem after that, well…
It has to be be gone forever
(I still don’t support it being banned though…)
The AI compares the position of the drawing and checks for a range of drawings that are deemed inappropriate.
So you have a letter F it analyze position of each pixel’s position and compares it to a model of inappropriate shapes or shapes that have been reported as inappropriate.
Then it deletes it.