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by luisamodio 1553 days ago
Thanks for the feedback!

This is probably the biggest challenge we faced we decided to create Throw.

We have addressed the problem face on and believe we have developed a robust solution to outrun this kind of behaviors.

Our moderation (filtering out and reward) algorithm very quickly promotes or demotes users based on the quality of their content.

And it is the community itself (with supervision of our team) that drive the tone.

Also thanks for the wishes!

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What’s the rubric being used to assess quality?
Fundamentally, if the response was useful or not to the person who asked it.

The platform is prepared positive and negative tags that strongly influence each user’s score (sort of like karma).

So what we value mostly is the effort taken to satisfy and meet the query’s needs.

As for trash and offensive content you’d simply hit the report button, an investigation will immediately take course, you’ll be reimbursed that answer and the offender drastically punished if not permanently banned as there is minimal tolerance for this.