| HN Mirror

> I like the Dark Souls model for user input - messages.

> Premeditated words and sentence structure. With that there is no need for moderation or anti-abuse mechanics.

I guess not, if you're willing to stick your fingers in your ears, really hard.

If you'd prefer to stay at least somewhat in touch with reality, you need to be aware that "predetermined words and sentence structure" don't even address the problem.

https://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-...

> Disney makes no bones about how tightly they want to control and protect their brand, and rightly so. Disney means "Safe For Kids". There could be no swearing, no sex, no innuendo, and nothing that would allow one child (or adult pretending to be a child) to upset another.

> Even in 1996, we knew that text-filters are no good at solving this kind of problem, so I asked for a clarification: "I’m confused. What standard should we use to decide if a message would be a problem for Disney?"

> The response was one I will never forget: "Disney’s standard is quite clear:

> No kid will be harassed, even if they don’t know they are being harassed."

> "OK. That means Chat Is Out of HercWorld, there is absolutely no way to meet your standard without exorbitantly high moderation costs," we replied.

> One of their guys piped up: "Couldn’t we do some kind of sentence constructor, with a limited vocabulary of safe words?"

> Before we could give it any serious thought, their own project manager interrupted, "That won’t work. We tried it for KA-Worlds."

> "We spent several weeks building a UI that used pop-downs to construct sentences, and only had completely harmless words – the standard parts of grammar and safe nouns like cars, animals, and objects in the world."

> "We thought it was the perfect solution, until we set our first 14-year old boy down in front of it. Within minutes he’d created the following sentence:

> I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny.