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Hey I love your landing page! Did you design it or used a template? And how is moderation done? I assume they're very private so no person is moderating them...

Hey I love your landing page! Did you design it or used a template? And how is moderation done? I assume they're very private so no person is moderating them... so a machine is doing it? Are you using some sort of off the shelf stuff?

andrewthebold 7y ago
The landing page is custom designed! So using tools like paper and Figma, and then translating into a next.js site. Moderation is based on two things: 1. A spam/bad word filter. It's pretty aggressive and inspired by a variety of OSS tools, but definitely could be better. 2. An easy reporting tool available for any user-generated content. It could be more prominent for requests, so that's something I'll fix shortly. I hacked together a small dashboard to surface whatever's caught by those two things. For the beta test, it's been working pretty well. Feel free to ask any followups!
- xiaolingxiao 7y ago
  You know one thing you can do w/ content moderation is go all the way to the source, if you make it more "expensive" (by some measure, not necessarily w/ money) to send a message, then it would discourage a lot of trolls who wouldn't even bother to make the effort.
  - andrewthebold 7y ago
    Yeah! Lots of potential in this idea. Right now it's a free-for-all, but limiting the number of things you can do in a given session might also incentivize more quality messages. Other possibilities too. I'm trying to avoid gamification mechanics (like maintaining a request-reply ratio, like counts, etc), so that's a consideration.
    - xiaolingxiao 7y ago
      Hey Andrew I just downloaded your app and it's very tastefully done! The UI just puts me at ease and is a "living breathing character" in itself, may sound silly but I definitely get the vibe. Could I reach out to you and give you some feedbacks? And I have tons of ideas about automated content moderation, etc.
      - andrewthebold 7y ago
        Yeah! My main email for gentle-related stuff is andrew@gentle.app Feel free to reach out and connect.
        xiaolingxiao 7y ago
        Ok sent!
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andrewthebold 7y ago

The landing page is custom designed! So using tools like paper and Figma, and then translating into a next.js site. Moderation is based on two things: 1. A spam/bad word filter. It's pretty aggressive and inspired by a variety of OSS tools, but definitely could be better. 2. An easy reporting tool available for any user-generated content. It could be more prominent for requests, so that's something I'll fix shortly. I hacked together a small dashboard to surface whatever's caught by those two things. For the beta test, it's been working pretty well. Feel free to ask any followups!

xiaolingxiao 7y ago
You know one thing you can do w/ content moderation is go all the way to the source, if you make it more "expensive" (by some measure, not necessarily w/ money) to send a message, then it would discourage a lot of trolls who wouldn't even bother to make the effort.
- andrewthebold 7y ago
  Yeah! Lots of potential in this idea. Right now it's a free-for-all, but limiting the number of things you can do in a given session might also incentivize more quality messages. Other possibilities too. I'm trying to avoid gamification mechanics (like maintaining a request-reply ratio, like counts, etc), so that's a consideration.
  - xiaolingxiao 7y ago
    Hey Andrew I just downloaded your app and it's very tastefully done! The UI just puts me at ease and is a "living breathing character" in itself, may sound silly but I definitely get the vibe. Could I reach out to you and give you some feedbacks? And I have tons of ideas about automated content moderation, etc.
    - andrewthebold 7y ago
      Yeah! My main email for gentle-related stuff is andrew@gentle.app Feel free to reach out and connect.
      - xiaolingxiao 7y ago
        Ok sent!
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