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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.
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#92The 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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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.
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#95This is so cool, gonna add this to my game website. This can easily help to get me multiplayer matching in the game.
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#96I 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
A hade a lot of very funny and meaningful interaction with people visiting the sites
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#97Neat 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!
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. :)
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#98Love 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.
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#99This was actually a lot of fun. Not as much trolling as I anticipated. Surprising amount of normal chit chat.
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#100this 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?