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Re: Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

#11

Post by mobiuscog » 

  - We are not responsible for the information you can receive or send via Nod App. Our users are free to share any kind of messages. We ask you to stay polite and don’t be offensive or do harm to anybody.
Really ? Anonymous texting with no limits on message content and you (a) expect people to stay polite, and (b) want to denounce all responsibility ?

Sure (b) is achievable (possibly) legally by having a huge disclaimer on usage of the app, but I think it's being somewhat disingenuous to think this won't be abused.

Edit: Will there at least be the ability for a user to block / report other messages ? I assume as you have the device ID this could be achieved technically.

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Post by fo0x »

mobiuscog wrote: post #11

- We are not responsible for the information you can receive or send via Nod App. Our users are free to share any kind of messages. We ask you to stay polite and don’t be offensive or do harm to anybody. Really ? Anonymous texting with no limits on message content and you (a) expect people to stay polite, and (b) want to denounce all responsibility ? Sure (b) is achievable (possibly) legally by having a huge disclaim…

We understand all the challenges, it's up to users to bully or not. But still this can be a lot of fun.

There already is opportunity to "mute" or "report" a message.

Re: Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

#17

Post by sneak »

fo0x wrote: post #8
MichaelSelsky wrote: post #5

How are you passing messages between people?

We use APNS

What do you do with the users' location history on the server side? (Obviously you see it to be able to know who to send push notifications to...)

Is it stored? Logged inadvertently? Intentionally archived? Intentionally purged?

Re: Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

#18

Post by dewey »

There's a similar app [0] that's so incredibly popular at universities here in Germany right now that even mainstream media wrote about it already. I'm actually surprised how good the moderation works there, messages that gather more than 5 downvotes are immediately removed so the self-moderation works quite well. How are you dealing with that (I don't see any up/downvote/report buttons)?

[0] https://jodel-app.com/

Re: Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger

#19

Post by tricolon »

dewey wrote: post #18

There's a similar app [0] that's so incredibly popular at universities here in Germany right now that even mainstream media wrote about it already. I'm actually surprised how good the moderation works there, messages that gather more than 5 downvotes are immediately removed so the self-moderation works quite well. How are you dealing with that (I don't see any up/downvote/report buttons)? [0] https://jodel-app.com/

Jodel looks like a clone of Yik Yak.
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