The Dark Side of online Role-Playing

buttercup

Amazing post.

Ominous

When you warn people that a troll is a troll, yet they go ahead and engage anyways.

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buttercup

Out of curiosity in circumstances similar to these would it be legal for the adminstrators to share an IP of someone like that to a mu* owner that wants to pro-actively check and ban? Or investigate?

Would it even be a good thing? Ethical?

tek

@buttercup absolutely.

Auspice

@tek said in The Dark Side of online Role-Playing:

@buttercup absolutely.

I, 100%, would want to know if there is a potential pedophile on my site so I could get rid of them. I would not want that risk on my server. EVER. Because it's not just on them if something happens. I could be held liable, too (since servers have logs, after all).

boop

@Carex said in The Dark Side of online Role-Playing:

the "Correct" method actually recommended by experts.

Lol. Raising children:

"Correct method"

"Experts"

surreality

Labeling sites as 'adult content' for 18+ games -- not just sex games, but all games that are 18+ -- is probably a necessary step from the community side. (I wouldn't create a game that wasn't 18+, no matter the content, because I don't want to deal with being responsible for children in that space; there's enough to worry about among adults as it is.)

So is, much as many folks aren't going to want to hear it, reporting it when someone underage is playing on one of these games; people generally don't, and that needs to change.

This is important to protect everyone involved, kids and adults that may not realize they're playing with someone underage on a site where underage people shouldn't be in the first place, because neither group deserves the damage.

Ganymede

@deathbird

“Children.”

Ha.

surreality

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/22/us/child-sex-abuse-websites-shut-down.html

Seemed relevant to add here once spotted. Not directly hobby-related in any way, but on point to the issue on the whole.

Ghost

Man, that would be bad if 4chan and/or that Canadian hotline were aware of MUs that allow depicted/simulated molestation of children.

Totally bad.

Pandora

@Ghost I feel where you're coming from, but let's allow the heroes to focus on actual children being harmed rather than a wild goose chase for consenting adults writing distasteful smut that does not harm actual children. Priorities are important.

Ghost

@Pandora said in The Dark Side of online Role-Playing:

@Ghost I feel where you're coming from, but let's allow the heroes to focus on actual children being harmed rather than a wild goose chase for consenting adults writing distasteful smut that does not harm actual children. Priorities are important.

Oh I'm sure they prioritize.

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First they came for the child molesters and I did nothing, for I was not a child molester.

Then they came for the animal fuckers and I did nothing, for I was not an animal fucker.

Then they came for the rapists, and I did nothing. For I was not a rapist.

They never came for me, however, for I was not a child molesting, animal fucking rapist.