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0 pointsandrewthebold6y ago0 comments

The landing page is custom designed! So using tools like paper and Figma, and then translating into a next.js site.

Moderation is based on two things:

1. A spam/bad word filter. It's pretty aggressive and inspired by a variety of OSS tools, but definitely could be better. 2. An easy reporting tool available for any user-generated content. It could be more prominent for requests, so that's something I'll fix shortly.

I hacked together a small dashboard to surface whatever's caught by those two things. For the beta test, it's been working pretty well.

Feel free to ask any followups!

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xiaolingxiao6y ago· 2 in thread

You know one thing you can do w/ content moderation is go all the way to the source, if you make it more "expensive" (by some measure, not necessarily w/ money) to send a message, then it would discourage a lot of trolls who wouldn't even bother to make the effort.

andrewtheboldOP6y ago

Yeah! Lots of potential in this idea. Right now it's a free-for-all, but limiting the number of things you can do in a given session might also incentivize more quality messages.

Other possibilities too. I'm trying to avoid gamification mechanics (like maintaining a request-reply ratio, like counts, etc), so that's a consideration.

xiaolingxiao6y ago

Hey Andrew I just downloaded your app and it's very tastefully done! The UI just puts me at ease and is a "living breathing character" in itself, may sound silly but I definitely get the vibe. Could I reach out to you and give you some feedbacks? And I have tons of ideas about automated content moderation, etc.

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