This problem could be solved only through ID verification. But 13+ doesn’t mean 18+, so some parents might not allow their sons/daughters, even if they are over 13, to show Roblox their IDs. And so Roblox would lose some good developers over 13 but under 18, and this would be a way bigger problem than underaged users.
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Underage users are a huge problem on the DevForum, and if you see any proof of someone being underage, whether that be a web.roblox link or them explicitly saying they are, please flag the post for moderation and the moderators will investigate.
Please also support this feature request about detecting underage users.
The only thing we can do now is flag posts that indicate a user is underage.
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It gets even worse in the international categories where moderation is basically nonexistent, presumably due to some sort of language barrier.
The SSO method already checks if account birthday is under 13 in order to block them from logging into the forum, I don’t think that is “illegal”. But more needs to be done, such as watching “web.roblox.com”. They already do it for discord server invites, so I see no reason why they can’t do it for web.roblox.com either.
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Good idea I hope we can bring this to roblox attention!
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I’d guess that our community can prevent underaged users too. By just flagging to the moderators users who have “web.roblox.com” in some links they send. I however support this request and the forum needs better protection.
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to be honest there are a lot of underaged people in discord and catching them is easy but you need to look very carefully by how they talk or what the link they are posting just like what @octav20071 said looking at a web.roblox.com will put a lot of red flags hell with the free private server links you can catch them very easily if you have some sort of free private server sharing chat
What do you expect?In todays society.People usually pretend to be over 13 to get the advantage they want.I usually think Roblox should put some captcha that all over 13 year olds should know,but it might be a hard challenge because of different country educational systems like all has to be different age=different types of level of learning(if im being honest,that actually might not work).
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How can a web.roblox link prove that an user is underaged?
Not everyone is an English-Native speaker. Non-English-Native speakers could make some grammar mistakes when talking in English. Also, there could be 11 year-olds who use grammar perfectly, and 21 year-olds who can’t even write a sentence that makes sense
Again how can a link prove that an user is underaged?
What do you mean?
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Only underage users have the web.roblox.com link, look at the search bar when you’re on the Roblox website. You’ll see that the link is www.roblox.com.
Oh yes it’s true. But what if a <13 user copies a link from a 13+ user?
P.S. I’m curious, why do links change between 13+ and <13 users?
Well, if they didn’t know that (and I doubt that many of them do know this), they would get banned.
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So a 13+ user would be banned without a reason.
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I’m sure there would be a reason, but it might be unclear to the person who got banned.
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Sorry, I accidentally changed words’ order. I meant, what if a 13+ user copies a link from a <13 user?
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Sorry, I accidentally changed words’ order while writing.
I’m pretty sure a web.roblox.com link wouldn’t immediately ban them, the moderation team would probably investigate. If the user repeatedly posted web.roblox.com links, it would probably be safe to say that they are underage.
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what if they lie about there age on there account? how would we stop that?
i completely agree just because some one doesn’t have good grammar doesn’t mean there bellow 13. plus I’m sure there ton of people that are 13+ but still have bad grammar
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so basically u expect every 13+ to talk with grammar or people like me would be considered underage? makes no sense
Anyways, I’ve got a good idea. So some people have told to add web.roblox links into the filter. When it is added to the filter, it can also be made in such a way that when a user press reply or save, it not only filters, but it also sends a notification to the moderators. Then the moderators would investigate.
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Yes, but investigate with what? There’s no way to collect evidence that a user is under 13.
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As @StrowmanBrown2 said company’s can not store data under the age of 13 this restrict loads of websites. Including over 18+ sites which teenagers still stubble across them and it has been an issue for years.
I am pretty sure roblox would be able to overcome this somehow.
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