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Pity, mainly because there seems to be a market for local anonymous communications, but a relatively small, and very vocal subset of users can ruin it for every
by ProfessorLayton 10y ago
Pity, mainly because there seems to be a market for local anonymous communications, but a relatively small, and very vocal subset of users can ruin it for everyone.
I wonder if some sort of anonymous reputation system could have saved them from making product decisions that were counter to the reasons for using the app in the first place.
- notadoc 10y agocomment karma like here on hackernews is sort of an "anonymous reputation system" is it not?
- pjc50 10y agoPseudonymous, not anonymous. People can recognise your username and treat you accordingly. Conversely if you start a new username it doesn't retain any karma from your "main".
- murtnowski 10y agoBeen running anonember.com for a while now without issue
- noamhacker 10y agoThe posts would get auto-deleted if their vote count got to -5. It was popular enough at my university that this kind of community moderation worked reasonably well, but in a lot of other locations it got abused.
- kevinmchugh 10y agoA hackernews user, `pkfrank, wrote about some of the strategies for mitigating bad posts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7663064 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7663064
- alistproducer2 10y agowhisper is a much superior, still alive platform that does the same thing.
- NDT 10y agoI really disagree. I've used the app maybe 2-3 years ago and looking at their website, it doesn't seem like the main UI or features have changed much. If I didn't know what the app was, going on their website I would think it's a Buzzfeed clone given all their listicles and clickbaity headlines.
- alistproducer2 10y agoListicles are not how it's mainly used. It's basically a chat app. Most of the activity on the main feed is people looking to chat. And there are very active groups.