[esperent]

I've dreamed of something like this for a long time.

However, the actual tool is only a tiny part of the problem. The bigger part is moderation and spam.

While this is niche that's not a big deal, but it's also nothing like reddit in that case.

What if it does take of? How will you handle spam/astroturfing/hate/illegal comments?

[willio58]

All of that is valid, but you shouldn't worry about it until it actually becomes a problem.

99% of the struggle for any social network is getting people to use it at all. Those problems you list would actually be great to have to deal with, because it means the network is taking off.

[ritinkar]

Lots of problems to be solved yet. Moderating 10 comments / day is very different from moderating 10k/day which in turn is different from millions a day.

I'll initially start by moderating comments myself, (need to create a policy first) and see what to do from there.

[oezi]

Moderation should work peer-to-peer. If somebody wants to post they have to first review posts which were flagged by users to violate the TOS. If sufficient users agree on the flag, the post is taken down.

[RupertEisenhart]

This. You should read up about how recaptcha worked in the early days to do 'authority of the masses'. (I don't know any particular sources, maybe these methods are properly defined now in some framework.)

[drooby]

I would absolutely love to see this attempted.

In order for a user for flag a post. They must highlight the portion of the ToS that is violated.

This has the added benefit of requiring people to actually read the frickin ToS to use the app!!!!!