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Re: Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites

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I'm interested in trying a moderation scheme that puts the power in the receiving client, with opinionated defaults. Let the client filter for itself, mute users for itself, and make users invisible to itself. Have default settings that make sense for the app, but let the user override them. Use a cheap purpose-built LLM like OpenAI's free moderation endpoint to classify the text and send the original text plus the c…

Assuming one can keep bots out, I always wondered why people don't just let the users moderate themselves? You could have a system where someone who gets consistently downvoted by enough people eventually just gets muted or kicked/banned for example.

Re: Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites

#182

Neat idea! It's simple but very effective - and I really enjoy the detail of the benches and the tree. Very nice. I wouldn't add it to any of my sites due to the unmoderated nature of it - seeing some fairly unsavory things in your demo - but that's just a little tweak, I'm sure!

openai has a free moderation endpoint. no reason to not use it. edit: downvoters either know something I don't about its unsuitability, or have outdated info on it and think it's against terms to use it for reasons unrelated to GPT. it's not against terms.

> no reason to not use it

Except that sending all your private communications to a big scary corporation is generally frowned upon.

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