NickHodges0702

We want that kind of comment to be "tunable" -- I.e., the blogger who's post one is commenting on could tune for this, and allow more/less sexual innuendo as desired.

Very sensitive topic. We'll think hard on how to handle things like that.

Well, we are going to give it a try!

Thanks again...

And I agree, you can watch Die Hard anytime. ;-)

Your blog post will be read. ;-)

Avoiding that kind of comment is exactly what we are trying to do, actually.

The notion of "Limit the community to the Dunbar number" is a fascinating idea. I guess "infinite" isn't going to quite work. Keen observation.

We tried very hard to not "force" anyone to argue correctly. We are shooting more for "nudge in the right direction" and "educate". Many people don't know that they are arguing in bad faith, I think.

The perfect outcome here is that a community/blogger can, with minimal effort, have engaging, interesting conversations without much effort and without having to worry about things getting hijacked by unpleasant commenters.

For the record, we store zero comments from anyone. If you are using Respectify, we'll know the URL of your site and that is it.

All comments are processed and completely forgotten.

I'll get the TOS and the Privacy Policy improved/updated.

The defaults we have set are clearly too high. That comment should be exactly what we should approve. Thanks for trying it.

DId you try tweaking the settings? We'd be most grateful for feedback on tweaked settings.

For instance, can I ask you to turn down toxicity and see if it accepts it?

We specifically don't want that to be the case. We want to encourage healthy, productive debate.

We may have the "dog-whistle" stuff over tuned.

One of our goals is to just make the edgelords and trolls go away -- if they want to comment, they have to be nice. If they can't be nice, they can't comment (A gross over-simplification, but you get the idea.....)

One feature we are going to add is a "Here's your feedback, but press here to post anyway" as an option for users to have. At teh very least, make someone stop and think about what they are saying.

I get that objection, and we are certainly very uninterested in that becoming the norm. The idea, of course, is to try to prevent comments that we want prevented and that aren't helpful.

Different bloggers and different communities are going to define that differently. That is why we are making a good-faith effort at allowing sites/people/groups to tweak this as desired.

Thank for your feedback.

Same for the phrase "Horrible people" -- that isn't necessarily in and of itself a bad thing to say.

Thanks again for trying it. Really grateful.

Thanks so much for trying it out and giving us feedback. I'm grateful.

First, Thanks so much for trying this out and giving us feedback.

Have you tried adjusting the settings on the left side? For instance, reducing or eliminating dog whistle checks?

Just a silly site I built in a weekend.

I hope he has a good hosting plan.

I definitely felt the bottom fall out of the DevRel job market. My last company eliminated the position (though maybe I wasn't any good, I don't know... )