Periscope users, listen up. It has introduced a comment moderation system to keep the Periscope community “safe”.
According to a post on its blog, the comment moderation system will empower the community to report & vote on comments that members consider to be spam or abuse.
Here’s how it works:
- During a broadcast, viewers can report comments as spam or abuse. The viewer that reports the comment will no longer see messages from that ‘commenter’ for the remainder of the broadcast. The system may also identify commonly reported phrases
- When a comment is reported, a few viewers are randomly selected to vote on whether they think the comment is spam, abuse, or looks okay
- The result of the vote is shown to voters. If the majority votes that the comment is spam or abuse, the ‘commenter’ will be notified that their ability to chat in the broadcast has been temporarily disabled. Repeat offenses will result in chat being disabled for that ‘commenter’ for the remainder of the broadcast