Edunesia : jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan
Vol. 7 No. 2 (2026)

A Lightweight Machine Learning Model for Early Detection of Cyberbullying in Online Gaming Communities to Support Digital Character Education

Badrani, Farhan (Unknown)
Majid, Nuur Wachid Abdul (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Feb 2026

Abstract

This study develops a lightweight early-warning model to identify toxic utterances as practical indicators of cyberbullying in Indonesian-language conversations within the Roblox gaming community, to support digital character education and child online safety. A corpus of 2,798 publicly available comments was manually annotated into Safe and Toxic categories and divided into training and testing sets. Text preprocessing included case folding, noise removal, tokenization, Roblox-specific slang normalization, stemming, and stopword removal. Text features were represented using term frequency–inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) unigram–bigram vectors. A linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) was evaluated against Multinomial Naïve Bayes as a baseline model. Results from hold-out testing indicate that the SVM achieved 82.14% accuracy and a macro-F1 score of 0.82, outperforming the baseline. Cross-validation results show performance variability, highlighting the need for continuous updates of domain-specific slang resources and broader data coverage. From an educational perspective, the proposed prototype can function as a non-punitive screening tool to support digital literacy instruction, school counselling, and parental mediation within a human-in-the-loop framework.

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Journal Info

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edu

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Mathematics Social Sciences Other

Description

As an National or international, multi-disciplinary, the scope of this journal is in education which provides a platform for the publication of the most advanced scientific researches in the areas of education, learning, development, instruction and teaching. The journal welcomes original empirical ...