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by ajhai
1018 days ago
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Congrats on shipping. Looks pretty great! A few years ago I was chatting with a friend of mine about a similar idea. I remember there were a lot of discussions around content moderation and biased nature of comments section of certain news websites around that time. The idea was to come up with a decentralized way to maintain comments indexed by the urls and anyone with a certain chrome extension can participate in these comments section completely unmoderated by the site owners. Eventually there ought to be some community moderation but the goal was to keep it unbiased. If your project takes off, first thing you will have to deal with is going to be spam. |
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Content moderation is a nightmare and I've been working in technical/product fields where this is a daily issue. The first choice was to make everything ephemeral: messages are not stored anywhere, and notes expires after n days. At least this covers some part of the issue, but this is only possible in the short term.
In the long term, if things go good for this extension, meaning more users and more things to moderate, I will have to introduce downvotes, reports, and most importantly some sort of authentication. That will still not be enough, and eventually I will have to resolve to text moderation APIs or language models (which we already do at work).
But I hope to stay in a sweet spot with enough users but not too many, and great collaboration! But one can always dream.