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by DangerousPie 1988 days ago
How do you deal with the problem that the content the current community promotes isn't necessarily the content that is best for your product in the long run (what if they are very dismissive of new members, hampering growth?), or even legal?
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Per TV show, it's not one big chat room, however there is a default "general" room that is use to that effect. It's very much like Slack/Discord channels. Users are able to essentially create topic rooms within a show.

Think of each TV show as it's own Discord server and within the show are user-generated topic rooms.

My hope is that users basically self-silo into topic rooms that interest them in regards to whatever show their watching.

For example: the Yankees are playing the Marlins. Users can create a #yankees room, a #marlins room, a #umpire room, etc to create chat rooms around a given topic in regards to whatever they're watching. In each room, a user has the ability to block, filter words, etc...so they can tailor their chat experience in whatever way they want while watching any given show.