Ask HN: How are you preventing spam in live chat?

Posted by roberja90 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:16PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Live streaming with live chat has become huge over the last few years. The chats are a massive target for spam bots. How are you detecting/stopping spam? Automated/manual/mixed

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preventing spam in live chat? by alexmingoia on Thursday February 11, 2021 @06:18AM (#26100334)

The solution used on IRC since the dawn of Internet chatting, is to only allow people in the chat with "voice" permission to speak. Anyone with voice permission can grant others voice permission. Mods can remove voice permission.

I'm somewhat surprised Discord, YouTube, Twitch, etc. don't have this functionality. IRC had this figured out decades ago... sigh

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preventing spam in live chat? by srcmap on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:20PM (#26095590)

Anyone can report the the spammer, admin (bot) can auto-ban him/her after certain threshold?

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Re:Ask HN: How are you preventing spam in live chat? by roberja90 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:28PM (#26095676)

"Admin bot" that sounds interesting. Any experience with 3rd party solutions or written something yourself?

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