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

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amatecha wrote: post #20

Oh what the heck? That's super cool! Awesome idea. Possible future enhancement: some basic day/night (or even weather?) design elements that match the timezone of the person whose site it is? Still, doesn't even need it, it's really cool as-is! I could see it being used as some avenue for saying toxic stuff, so I'm suddenly feeling like the only allowed actions should be ones that can never be harmful (like text inte…

Thaaanks! I've thought about weather , but I loved the idea for day/night! I'll definately implement that soon!

It already has block/ban and block word list, but unfortunatelly I haven't added them in the settings for the landing page before HN made it front page.. Opsy

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

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jedberg wrote: post #63

In the "this is why we can't have nice things" category, the first thing I saw was someone calling themselves "dick and balls". :(

Yeah, but don't lat the HN crowd spoil the thing. You can check the other sites that are using Hackernews and you might have a great experience! I've been chatting with a lot of people with similar interest and had a lot of very nice interactions!

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

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blooalien wrote: post #56

Neat 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.

Actually, there was. But I haven't added all of them to the landing page. I wasn't expecing making HN front page :sweat (opooops) But there is already some basic moderation and ban/kick functionalities.

However, there is still lots of room for improvement.

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

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purple-leafy wrote: post #53
sneak wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

…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…

I get the desire to moderate your game, but how are words 'harmful' exactly? Especially random, throwaway internet spew. Harmful to your game's reputation, maybe. But to the people?
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