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

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If your website attracts such elements perhaps there's a reason?

The demo is attracting the HN crowd and it’s getting… well, let’s just say this crowd is about as good as it gets online.

I think the HN crowd might be the worst commentariat on a site that isn't explicitly focused on antisocial behaviour.

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

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The contrast between the example screenshots and the standard internet behavior in the live demo is hilarious

To paraphrase, there's no scheme for moderation / censoring / filtering that survives contact with the Internet. It simply can't be done. People take it as a challenge, and you can't design a system that handles it while remaining useful. If you ban words, people will introduce typos / different spelling. If you ban concepts people will change the concepts (see the "unalive" thing that's popular now). If people want…

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

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Maybe a really lightweight fast LLM could moderate messages in realtime. Not sure how pricey that would get though.

No matter how cheap per request, someone will figure out a way to DoS that endpoint, and it will be extremely pricy unless you have effective rate limiting.

The OpenAI moderation endpoint is free and it doesn't count toward the usage limit.

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

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I love the idea, but it’s a real shame how people are using it. I wonder if AI can moderate it for offensiveness and spam prevention

Well, this is the behaviour of the crowd. Before HN, or even if you go to other websites that are using TownSquare, it can be quite fun.

A hade a lot of very funny and meaningful interaction with people visiting the sites

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

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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!

Actually, there is moderation. The problem is that the page came to HN before I added the moderation keywords or implemented more things :P But overall, it's possible.

On the details like benches and trees, you can also customize it. YOu can add as many props as you want, wherever you want, and style them accordingly. :)

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

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Love the idea. Could use some filters and stale (sleeping) clients could get removed quicker. Also, it seemed to be disconnecting quite often, maybe a hug of death thing.

Yeah, I'll definatelly improve that! I wasn't expecting HN crowd :sweat

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

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this is a very clever concept. I'll keep it in mind for the future - when my app site has persistent amount of visitors. Are there some rules/settings for stop words to prevent some types of abuse? Or is it planned?

Thanks!! :D Yes there is already rules/settings to stop words and ban people. I'm also improving overall moderation and banning mechanisms.
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