[grandalf]

It was interesting the other evening to watch "ask a black guy anything" and to see some pretty hateful racist comments get posted.

The guy handled it well but it was clear that some of the viewers were trying to goad him.

There would be three easy solutions:

1) allow broadcasters to turn off comments entirely (only allowing hearts)

2) allow broadcasters to make comments visible only to themselves, to reduce the incentive of griefers by shrinking the audience.

3) making all periscope comments into actual tweets.

[pjc50]

4) Have an AUP and actually ban violators

5) Support shared blocklists

[strictnein]

Disagree with #5 strongly. Shared blocklists are a great way to create echo chambers. The unofficial ones are already causing problems.

Of the people I follow on Twitter, a surprising number of fairly mainstream journalists are finding themselves blocked by people they have never interacted with.

[migueldeicaza]

Not really.

The echo chamber is only an issue if you isolate everything. But given the hundreds of thousands of disparate communities, blocking one or two, or even dozens of groups does not amount to much towards creating an echo chamber.

[strictnein]

The blocklists are targeting people in the same communities, but who hold differing views, so it definitely is creating echo chambers. You don't need to isolate everything, just those holding opposing views in your community.

[negrit]

4) The broadcaster can retrieves the comments and report them.