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CNN Article About Another WoW Predator
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Post by
ElhonnaDS
http://www.kptv.com/news/22735303/detail.html
Just posting the article for people to see (Not everyone has time at work to browse both WoWhead AND CNN). I'm sure people are going to get all enraged about what a bad rap WoW gets, and yadda, yadda, yadda...but I think it's good that parents get a reminder sometimes that you're supposed to watch your kids. As convenient as it might be to let the online gaming community be your babysitter, it's not a good idea. Kids have as much risk of running into predators in wow as they do in any other online activity. There has to be some supervision.
Post by
Hurono
Agreed. Something that irks me, however, is the parents blame the game.
Online interactions not rated by the ESRB.
Post by
Rubendesmet619
That people are realy that stupid is beyond me. Seriously.
How hard is it to see things like that comming?
Nobody outside my RL friends online know my IRL name, just as nobody from my familie knows who I vote for(Living in belgium so we have an election about once every 6months in this @#$%ed up country here).
Post by
ElhonnaDS
Agreed. Something that irks me, however, is the parents blame the game.
Absolutely- it's the same kind of parents that let they 7-year-olds go play in the street while they're in on the couch watching television, then sue the town for not having enough stop-signs when the kid gets hit by a car. It seems like there is a lack of acceptance of responsibility on the part of a lot of parents that when something happens to their kids as the result of them not paying enough attention, that it's as much their fault as the person driving the car.
I'm not saying that parents can 100% avoid things like this online- you can't watch your kids all the time. But, I do know of several 13-15-year-olds in my guild who spend 8 hours a night online, on school nights, in vent with strange adults. They yell, and curse and nerdrage and no one ever checks on them.
It seems like parents today want to take the easy way out a lot of the time- Dora the Explorer instead of playing together, MacDonalds instead of broccoli if it will shut the kids up, and as long as he's up in the room on his computer, he's not making a mess or asking for money to go out with his friends.
Post by
Patty
It's not the games fault if people manipulate it. I bet the 14 year old boy
loved it
, and I bet the parents didn't give a !@#$ about what he was on until they found out that their son had been whisked away by a "sexual predator".
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378995
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Post by
Hurono
Agreed. Something that irks me, however, is the parents blame the game.
Absolutely- it's the same kind of parents that let they 7-year-olds go play in the street while they're in on the couch watching television, then sue the town for not having enough stop-signs when the kid gets hit by a car. It seems like there is a lack of acceptance of responsibility on the part of a lot of parents that when something happens to their kids as the result of them not paying enough attention, that it's as much their fault as the person driving the car.
I'm not saying that parents can 100% avoid things like this online- you can't watch your kids all the time. But, I do know of several 13-15-year-olds in my guild who spend 8 hours a night online, on school nights, in vent with strange adults. They yell, and curse and nerdrage and no one ever checks on them.
It seems like parents today want to take the easy way out a lot of the time- Dora the Explorer instead of playing together, MacDonalds instead of broccoli if it will shut the kids up, and as long as he's up in the room on his computer, he's not making a mess or asking for money to go out with his friends.
Precisely. The parents need to watch their children and pay attention to the activities they're taking part in. They need to be there for something, at the very least.
People seem to care less and less nowadays. :/
Post by
Bulash
People make up World of Warcraft therefore parents have to blame people.
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Post by
mindthegap5
wow thats two WoW scandals in less than 2 weeks now...
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100212/BREAKING/100219929/0/NEWS?tc=ar
Wow... I never knew people actually take the game that seriously... >.<
That's nerdrage for ya xD
Post by
TMSama
Here we go again. :\
Post by
Monday
I hate articles like this. How many people do you think are lured every day thorugh MySpace, Facebook, etc. Except nobody pays any attention to those, just to things concerning WoW. Imo its because everybody (
pretty much
) has a facebook, myspace while only "nerds" play WoW.
Post by
Orranis
Actually, in this case I'll defend it. They said WoW once, and never directly (and you would have to stretch to say indirectly) blamed the game. I'm sure they would say it if it was Facebook just as quickly. The other one was a bit different though.
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Post by
pgh1980
"I heard Chris Hansen served the warrant dressed as a level 80 Night Elf."
(One of the replies on the original article. Too funny not to quote.)
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Post by
phaluss
this probably all started over the anal "random spell" game in gen chat...
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