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by rfong 4484 days ago
Ok, seems like it's doing pretty well in favor of positivity. I searched some common nice/nasty words in the DB and I'm seeing on the order of:

- 25-70 hits for strings containing words like nice/fun/smart/kind

- 1-3 for dumb/ugly/stupid/boring/fag

- no incidences of slut/bitch/hate/crap/... (I searched a LOT)

- one racial slur that I could find

- surprisingly no negative uses of curse words (one "fucking awesome")

This is a way lower incidence of negativity than anticipated. Due to the simplicity of the text inputs, I'm going to hold off on preemptive moderation that would change the feel of the app and see how it works if I just flag blacklisted words.

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It is also entirely possible that since I have only posted this to HN and Facebook thus far, it has not yet reached its ultimate audience of idiot cyberbully trolls :(