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I once interned at an easily google-able Secondlife competitor. They fought against NSFW content for a long time, but then figured out how to fix it by:

1. Incentivizing users (with in-game currency) for reporting NSFW content, and 2. Restricting NSFW content to only people who bought an all-access pass (ID verified at time of purchase)

This opened up a new revenue stream for the company, and dealt with the NSFW content in one swoop.



A) I don’t think #2 would be A good idea for a kids game, and B) kids will absolutely start to game #1 with shill accounts and you may well wind up increasing the amount of ‘evil stuff’ as kids bring it to the platform for the sole purpose of reporting it to get Robux/swag.



Sounds like it'd just incentivise people to make NSFW content on burners and then report it.




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