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Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by input_sh »

aryehof wrote: post #88
cauenapier wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue is that my site right now is too crowded giving this post reached a good position on HN. On regular days, this are much calmer. You can check other sites using the Townsquare on https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/ (fixed link). Check out the map.

All I see is disgusting popups - “k-ll j——“, “r-pe n——“ Very upsetting, no thanks to you. Who wants that on their web site? In some jurisdictions you’re going to be in trouble for facilitating hate and calls for violence (or worse). This is why what you have implemented will not work in its current form. I suggest you move to a system that characters can trigger only standard phrases and emoticons.

Those messages are originating from here and the same thing happens whenever someone shares any type of an anonymous messaging board.

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by nullorempty »

cauenapier wrote: post #7
graypegg wrote: post #5

> The goal wasn't to build another social network. > It was to bring back a small feeling that the web used to have: the sense that there are actual people on the other side of the screen. > Town Square is intentionally tiny and forgetful. There are no accounts, no profiles, no follower counts, no permanent chat history. Messages exist only while people are there to read them. Cute idea! But maybe this is just me hav…

I'm actually thinking about implementing some sort of "permanence" for some people, specially for recurring visitors of a given site. But that's still an early thought.

Your risk conclusion elite club this way. So I think this makes the idea less interesting.

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by m4lvin »

cauenapier wrote: post #26
Zak wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there might be some merit to a basic filter, perhaps some sort of timeout for obvious slurs. I see a few right now.

This is already sort of implemented. But moderation is a very very difficult problem to be solved and there are different philosophies for it...

How about these? - rate limit overall messages, maybe even percentage wise: if some ip sent more than 70% of all messages in the last minute, mute it. - let other users mark/report spam and if three others agree something is spam, block all slightly similar messages for 24 hours? - forbid sending the exact same message more than N times per M seconds. - rate limit color change and jump much more.

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by AlecSchueler »

Schiendelman wrote: post #22
xuhu wrote: post #12

I hope sites that just provide a way for people to assemble offline will be the new thing soon. A photography guide's site that rallies amateurs for walk tours. A planning board for a foreign language practice group. A site with a schedule and registration form for a sports event. When I read "online social" my head thinks "not-really social".

I'm working on a game that helps with this. You leave your little bunker in a post-apocalyptic world and find the land around you contaminated. You walk, run, any workout, to claim territory around you, and gain energy you can use to clean up. You start building greenhouses to grow food and start rebuilding the ecosystem. It's all on the real world map underneath you, and all the interactions between people in the ga…

> I've learned a lot from Niantic's strategy

What's your monetisation plan and how can we be assured that the data collected won't be used for military purposes?

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by cauenapier »

mgkimsal wrote: post #79
cauenapier wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A permanent persona for a user across visits. Could even be across website visits, if they all use townsquare.

go further and let me have the same persona in townsquares across various sites. or have you already described why you wouldn't want to do that?

That's what o meant. Same persona in Townsquares across various sites. You would recognise me on my site, on your site and John's site.

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by kitd »

vlian2088 wrote: post #52
xuhu wrote: post #12

I hope sites that just provide a way for people to assemble offline will be the new thing soon. A photography guide's site that rallies amateurs for walk tours. A planning board for a foreign language practice group. A site with a schedule and registration form for a sports event. When I read "online social" my head thinks "not-really social".

mom&pop social media is the old thing, and like other mom&pop things that got steamrolled by their equivalents of Walmart, it is highly unlikely to ever return. 95% of people choose utility and convenience over ideological preferences, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. I too miss the old Internet sometimes, sure, but I'm not ashamed to admit that I'd much rather deal with anonymous strangers or LLMs than ye old…

There's no shortage of anal moderation, resident schizos, and weird cliques in show on the "Walmart" communities.

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by cauenapier »

jaxn wrote: post #72

Fun fact. My wife and I met on something similar in 2006 or so. "My Blog Log" was a sidebar widget that showed other people who we reading that blog. She was in marketing, I was in tech, and it was a blog at that intersection written by Rex Hammock (RIP).

Ohhh, I would love to hear a similar story like that for a couple that met on TownSquare!!!

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by cauenapier »

aryehof wrote: post #88
cauenapier wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue is that my site right now is too crowded giving this post reached a good position on HN. On regular days, this are much calmer. You can check other sites using the Townsquare on https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/ (fixed link). Check out the map.

All I see is disgusting popups - “k-ll j——“, “r-pe n——“ Very upsetting, no thanks to you. Who wants that on their web site? In some jurisdictions you’re going to be in trouble for facilitating hate and calls for violence (or worse). This is why what you have implemented will not work in its current form. I suggest you move to a system that characters can trigger only standard phrases and emoticons.

That "standard phrases and emoticons" would break the whole idea.

But I guarantee the most of the times, the TownSquare in my site is much calmar and friendlier. People having actually interesting conversations. What you saw was a reflection of the page going FrontPage on HN

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by swiftcoder »

graypegg wrote: post #5

> The goal wasn't to build another social network. > It was to bring back a small feeling that the web used to have: the sense that there are actual people on the other side of the screen. > Town Square is intentionally tiny and forgetful. There are no accounts, no profiles, no follower counts, no permanent chat history. Messages exist only while people are there to read them. Cute idea! But maybe this is just me hav…

This is where Disqus comment sections, as shitty as they were, were a real boon to the blogging ecosystem. You'd see the same users again and again across multiple blogs.
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