The contrast between the example screenshots and the standard internet behavior in the live demo is hilarious
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Re: Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
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Nah, drive those horrible people out of social spaces. I want to talk to other people without racist assholes bumbling around. Being a racist asshole carries some inherent risks too, like people choosing not to let you enter their spaces.
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racist people don't get to talk in my spaces
Re: Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
#53Moderation moderation moderation . It’s a big problem I have similar moderation concerns in my browser game/engine but I only ban offensive slurs not swears, but I give no visual affordance that the word is not allowed The only surface where players see the input content is in a share card, and if they finish a game and get to the share card they will find the offensive word has been REDACTED lol So it’s a long feedb…
…or you could just let people talk? People who engage with social features generally do so because they want to talk to other people. That carries some inherent risks.
No? Especially not in my case where it’s a share artefact that is intended to be shared with others on various platforms.
Having my game aesthetic + slur on a sharing artefact is a great way for people to think my game encourages that crap and to “cancel” the game.
Not that I agree with, or care about, cancel culture - but I don’t want people in general associating my game with slurs.
I’m all for swearing and saying funny things that are not pc, but I draw the line at harmful offensive content.
Do what you wish but do no harm unto others.
Re: Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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racist people don't get to talk in my spaces
If the history of the internet is to be any guide, it won't be the slog of racism that will shut something like this down, it will be a firehose of penis pictures.
Somewhere, someone will figure out how to create a bot that floods this with penis pictures, and that will be the end of it (or the beginning of the end, where a short period of anti-penis-pic defensive patches will be made until the software maintainers just give up)
Re: Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
#55I just took a look at the page's own 'town square'. At the moment, it's largely full of people saying offensive things for the sake of it.
After having been a moderator for a number of communities over the years—BBCs in the 90s, niche forums during the 00s & 10s, Reddit boards in the 20s—I’ve come to believe that running shadow services where disruptive individuals can comingle may be the best way to handle this. The advent of LLMs really opens the door to shunting off these “community members “ who’d rather contribute in misanthropic ways for the lulz…
Yes this is the way, give no affordance that they are banned
Re: Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
#56Neat idea, but there seems to be zero defense against spammer scum. One jerk with a bot script seems able to make it totally useless for everyone else there.
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#57> NOTE: This project has been mostly vibe-coded I deeply appreciate the honesty here. I’ll pass based on the vibecodedness of it but perhaps it won’t be a dealbreaker for others.
Yeah. I also don’t like the fact the dev posts the link and doesn’t interact with anyone here at all, so the link posting is effectively spray and pray abandonware too. Easy come easy go like they say
Re: Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
racist people don't get to talk in my spaces
If the history of the internet is to be any guide, it won't be the slog of racism that will shut something like this down, it will be a firehose of penis pictures. Somewhere, someone will figure out how to create a bot that floods this with penis pictures, and that will be the end of it (or the beginning of the end, where a short period of anti-penis-pic defensive patches will be made until the software maintainers j…
Hot-dog-not-hot-dog
Re: Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
#59> A problem repeatedly occurred on https://cauenapier.com/
People are flooding the channel with messages, causing the widget to use too many resources on ios; and the website is being endlessly reloaded.
Any idea how to fix this? Bonus points for user friendly non technical solutions, ie is there a way to design an online social space where people want to collaborate and their first thought isn’t trolling?
Re: Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
#60Moderation moderation moderation . It’s a big problem I have similar moderation concerns in my browser game/engine but I only ban offensive slurs not swears, but I give no visual affordance that the word is not allowed The only surface where players see the input content is in a share card, and if they finish a game and get to the share card they will find the offensive word has been REDACTED lol So it’s a long feedb…
…or you could just let people talk? People who engage with social features generally do so because they want to talk to other people. That carries some inherent risks.
The demo widget right now is botted with people spamming nonsense to the point of breaking browsers, much less the intended use. "let people talk" is not the same as "give disruptive people the tools to prevent others from talking"