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Re: Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site

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Post by mutagen »

jacquesm wrote: post #27
yaddayadda wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not quite building off of your current system, but I've long wanted a service where I could log-in and be approved to participate anonymously in conversations that are still somewhat moderated. "? &%$#?#$& ?", you ask. There are a lot of sites that I participate in that allow you to rate and flag other users (e.g. HN). I actually really like this ability. But frequently I want to make many posts to such site, but I d…

Quite a few brain (and cpu) cycles have been spent on 'author identification' software that allows to tie together pieces of text at various points in time to a single author.

Opportunity for a text anonymization API here. Insert subtle stylistic changes for the pendants with more obvious 'foreign-isms' for those seeking a greater degree of misdirection and anonymity.

Re: Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site

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Post by yaddayadda »

jacquesm wrote: post #27
yaddayadda wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not quite building off of your current system, but I've long wanted a service where I could log-in and be approved to participate anonymously in conversations that are still somewhat moderated. "? &%$#?#$& ?", you ask. There are a lot of sites that I participate in that allow you to rate and flag other users (e.g. HN). I actually really like this ability. But frequently I want to make many posts to such site, but I d…

Quite a few brain (and cpu) cycles have been spent on 'author identification' software that allows to tie together pieces of text at various points in time to a single author.

I believe most of them still require sizable amounts of work. For example, this individual comment might be able to narrow me down to native U.S. English speaker with higher education, but not much beyond that.

I have played with gender-identification software[1], which has such a limit. Frankly, the identification seems to be more topically sensitive than it is gender sensitive. For example, if I put in my writing about robots it will id me as male, but if I put in my writing about cooking it will id me as female.

Combining the 'author identification' software with known identities (such as we have here on HN) will certainly make them more accurate. Hence, my desire for a system that limits such computations.

[1] http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php

Re: Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site

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Post by yzzxy »

s_kilk wrote: post #24
sanderjd wrote: post #23

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Along those lines: people's handles could be more memorable but still random. Maybe something like the github repository name recommender. "Oh, great, another post from ice-badger-weasel-fox, I love those!"

Good call, I like it!

I would caution you not to go for the cutesy, "random" aesthetic that github does with their name generator. People may not wish to be addressed in that way.

Re: Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site

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Post by armenarmen »

sanderjd wrote: post #23
s_kilk wrote: post #9

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We think alike, that's been on the todo list for a while :) Thanks for the input!

Along those lines: people's handles could be more memorable but still random. Maybe something like the github repository name recommender. "Oh, great, another post from ice-badger-weasel-fox, I love those!"

maybe ala heroku? whispering-glades-5487

Re: Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site

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Post by tempermanent »

alexhawdon wrote: post #18

Novel. I like it. Has me thinking about a 'slow' messaging app: basically email but in daily digest format. E-mail, but with the latency of physical mail. You may reply at your convenience. Your message will be received at the time of the recipient's choosing, along with the rest of the day's correspondence. Optionally including weekly days off. Probably not great for business. Between friends it might encourage more…

You can just do this with your friends! Send long emails and establish an expectation of reply-at-your-convenience. It's a tricky norm to get started but once it does it's quite rewarding.

Re: Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site

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Post by SquidLord »

yzzxy wrote: post #33
s_kilk wrote: post #24

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Good call, I like it!

I would caution you not to go for the cutesy, "random" aesthetic that github does with their name generator. People may not wish to be addressed in that way.

They'll never know if they are, and if they do -- they'll never know by who.

If that's still a problem, I humbly suggest that those people might not be the right audience for a socnet that lets one post only once a day.

Re: Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site

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Post by [deleted] »

yaddayadda wrote: post #17
s_kilk wrote: post #10

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Thanks for the comment, and I agree, it's very bare-bones right now. In an ideal world, what would a product like this look like when fully fleshed-out?

Not quite building off of your current system, but I've long wanted a service where I could log-in and be approved to participate anonymously in conversations that are still somewhat moderated. "? &%$#?#$& ?", you ask. There are a lot of sites that I participate in that allow you to rate and flag other users (e.g. HN). I actually really like this ability. But frequently I want to make many posts to such site, but I d…

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