Chatroulette is far from dead, it's still a top 3000 website (or thereabouts), which makes it larger than 99.99% of all the websites in the world. Not too shabby, and many people calling themselves 'entrepreneurs' and 'start-up' people would give an arm and a leg to be in that position.
Chatroulette suffers from the exact same problem that ww.com suffers from, which is that it takes only a very small percentage of 'jerks' (how appropriate) to spoil it for the rest. On ww.com I've managed to somewhat mitigate the problem by making labeling of your content mandatory.
I've spent an awful lot of time on trying to automate the detection of inappropriate content but there are many reasons why that is a lot harder than it seems.
A chatroulette based on a 'real-names' log-in procedure that would then connect users anonymously would be one possible way to combat the problem.
How does YouTube handle nudity? I don't think I've ever seen anything like that on there before. Is it automated or does it have an approval process? Or do they just rely on dmca-like takedown requests?
I have seen some videos with nudity on youtube - I guess they stayed there because they had like 200 views. I guess that as soon as the video gets big a human checks it and removes it if it is with nudity
Chatroulette could allow users to flag the perverts, and also give users the ability to request "Please don't show me perverts". I don't see this as a difficult problem for them to solve if they wanted to.
It's harder than it seems. Flagging also opens the door to 'pranksters' that will false-flag everybody just to clog the system. Most of these things seem to be 'obvious' until you actually start to implement them in real life and then it seems that old saw about 'theory and practice' holds very true.
Flagging also opens the door to 'pranksters' that will false-flag everybody just to clog the system.
Seems to me this could be mostly avoided by having the flagging mechanism repsond to some # > 1 of flags from unique users. Issues could still come up if there were > 1 people engaged in this practice simultaneously, though it doesn't seem like an activity holding much long term appeal. So, this solution seems while perhaps not optimal at least functional.
Please share some other hard type problems from such sites if you feel like it. Then we can talk through/theorize about what might work in practice.
> Please share some other hard type problems from such sites if you feel like it.
I'll work up a list of stuff, over the years I've spent many hours analyzing the abuse angle of webcam sites and while I haven't found a completely automated way to do it we have it worked out to the point where with relatively simple tools a single person can easily monitor a few thousand cams. Chatroulette is one-to-one, which has a bunch of unique problems in terms of the speed with which you can gather statistics on cams in order to determine the kind of content.
Ironically the best indicator for mis-labeled adult content is the number of viewers...
Chatroulette suffers from the exact same problem that ww.com suffers from, which is that it takes only a very small percentage of 'jerks' (how appropriate) to spoil it for the rest. On ww.com I've managed to somewhat mitigate the problem by making labeling of your content mandatory.
I've spent an awful lot of time on trying to automate the detection of inappropriate content but there are many reasons why that is a lot harder than it seems.
A chatroulette based on a 'real-names' log-in procedure that would then connect users anonymously would be one possible way to combat the problem.