Feel free to suggest any solution that does not require 24x7 oversight.
We've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on salaries doing that in the past and even then it is almost impossible to keep the 'jerks' out.
For every not-so-nice person you block two more will pop up.
And then we're not yet mentioning the spammers, the porn sites and all the other stuff you don't want on your site.
Hang around long enough on ww.com s homepage and you'll see anything that is possible in life (including people being born, dying, marriages and so on). It's got lots of fun stuff but the 'adult' angle is on some days a reason for me to just go and do something completely different for a while because I no longer wish to deal with it.
I don't want to take a look at the site because I'm at work, and value my job, but do you encourage any of the site users to help weed out the crap?
I have a few communities and admittedly, they're not webcam oriented (which likely helps), but they pretty much moderate themselves. (Report links, power-users being assigned moderator powers, etc)
Yes, we did that too, all the obvious ideas we have tried at some point in the last decade.
Having the users police each other works as long as there is no abuse of that power, as soon as they figure out how to game the system you get 'cliques' that will do such funny things as ban all the gays, all the old people, all the women and so on. Pretty soon there'd be nobody left.
I'm 100% convinced that it is possible somehow though, just that I haven't found it yet so please keep those 'obvious' ideas coming, maybe one of these days someone hits the jackpot.
That's a good idea. But it is also 'gameable', in other words let's all do bad stuff on ww.com so we can ban ourselves over and over again...
The only thing I can think of that would really crack it is software that will analyze the images from the camera and ban the perps before anybody gets to see the images. That's a pretty tall order software wise though, I don't think I'm good enough for such a task (even though I occasionally get mad enough to try my hand at it again).
We've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on salaries doing that in the past and even then it is almost impossible to keep the 'jerks' out.
For every not-so-nice person you block two more will pop up.
And then we're not yet mentioning the spammers, the porn sites and all the other stuff you don't want on your site.
Hang around long enough on ww.com s homepage and you'll see anything that is possible in life (including people being born, dying, marriages and so on). It's got lots of fun stuff but the 'adult' angle is on some days a reason for me to just go and do something completely different for a while because I no longer wish to deal with it.