Posted by cauenapier 21 hours ago
I have similar moderation concerns in my browser game/engine but I only ban offensive slurs not swears, but I give no visual affordance that the word is not allowed
The only surface where players see the input content is in a share card, and if they finish a game and get to the share card they will find the offensive word has been REDACTED lol
So it’s a long feedback loop just to find out your hijinks lead nowhere
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 funny things that are not pc, but I draw the line at harmful offensive content.
Do what you wish but do no harm unto others.
Being a racist asshole carries some inherent risks too, like people choosing not to let you enter their spaces.
I said they can fuck off from any spaces I have a voice in.
Social pariahs are people. Doesn’t mean I’m going to tolerate them around me.
You choose to be a social pariah, you live with the social consequences of that.
They should have food, water, shelter, and healthcare. They don’t get my attention, respect, or acceptance.
Or, do you grasp the nature of the problem of free speech, or don't you?
>> they can fuck off from any spaces I have a voice in.
This also sounds like you (a) don't really have a "voice", since you're only comfortable talking to people you deem acceptable (b) call people racist who you are afraid of talking to (and they're almost certainly not all racist, given your criteria that anyone who disagrees with you is racist, and given that disagreeing with you would almost be required out of pure logic), and (c) are only comfortable in an echo chamber where your opinion, such as it is, has no impact whatsoever.
Cool, got it.
edit: on second thought this is way too obvious ragebait
Somewhere, someone will figure out how to create a bot that floods this with penis pictures, and that will be the end of it (or the beginning of the end, where a short period of anti-penis-pic defensive patches will be made until the software maintainers just give up)
If everyone did what you are saying here, peace would be impossible. For in your limited framing, they are racist against me and I against them and so no conversation would be possible.
To judge a person before listening to them is the worst sin of all... and shutting anyone out of the conversation based on your assumption of what you think they think is morally bankrupt and, frankly, the root of all evil.
>> There are people so worthless
You have no clue how to judge that, so assume a position of humility.
you're wrong, moderation is needed in ventures like this
The advent of LLMs really opens the door to shunting off these “community members “ who’d rather contribute in misanthropic ways for the lulz than either leave or not contribute at all. They can take part in an interactive echo chamber that gives just as well as they can. You don’t even need a powerful model so the overall costs to the community are probably lower than the alternatives of trying to coexist with community-arsonists.
I spent years trying to find ways to bring people productively “into the fold” but eventually realized that it is futile in some cases because there’s zero value to the individual or the community to find a middle ground. They want to see things burn, and the community simply wants them out.
Further it may still make sense to use human reports to gate some automation even if it slows response.
If you ban words, people will introduce typos / different spelling. If you ban concepts people will change the concepts (see the "unalive" thing that's popular now). If people want to be miserable, they will be miserable. And they'll invent new words, or use euphemisms to get their point across.
Was planning to add github oauth to get a known identity and persistent messaging so visitors can chat with each other across sites.
Instead of a webmaster adding script to their site, it was a browser extension.
The intent was two folds:
1. Get to know other people having similar interests,
2. Try something on the lines of a decentralized chat/messaging system.
Site-local chat was meant to be the default way. But, was not restricted to that. People could keep whitelisted list of sites that they are open to get pings/DM's from.
I was still not able to figure out the privacy-focused, and local, interest matching part since it was meant to be p2p (without any server storage), and local storage can easily be tweaked.
If this was solved, my plan then was to automatically suggest people who may have similar interests depending on the sites they browse, for how long, and the messages they generally send.
Kinda like tinder, but, you don't have to sign-up and install no app.
I contemplated implementing it on my site for a while but decided I didn’t want to add the JavaScript. Still find it a really cute concept.
People are flooding the channel with messages, causing the widget to use too many resources on ios; and the website is being endlessly reloaded.
Any idea how to fix this? Bonus points for user friendly non technical solutions, ie is there a way to design an online social space where people want to collaborate and their first thought isn’t trolling?
Is there a way to throttle iframe cpu usage ?
You could probably queue messages, cull old messages, cap concurrent connections. That may be the issue is too many peers