[clairity]

stranger danger boogeymanism is so tiring. if you're worried about pedophiles, you need to be monitoring your own (extended) family first and foremost, then as a distant second, anyone else who regularly spends prolonged amounts of time alone with your child. just like abductions, sexual assault, domestic violence, and pandemics.

[ghufran_syed]

That would be true if the advice was for an individual - when your organization is serving children, you have a responsibility to them and their parents to minimize the risk, which is small but non-trivial

[thedevelopnik]

Yeah, to be clear, we absolutely see it as our responsibility to minimize risk and do everything we can to protect our students.

[alymurray]

Completely agree that this is what it comes down to. We see it as our responsibility to make it hard to use the platform in that way, and of course to respond appropriately if something does happen, but ultimately we cannot control the behavior of students or volunteers. The only way to keep a child completely safe is to never let them interact with anyone (including family)!

[clairity]

yes, certainly doing the low-hanging things that reasonably protect the parties generally makes sense, but an excessive focus on this one issue seems a poor allocation of time and resources.