Periscope doesn’t want you to feed the trolls

While Twitter, Periscope’s parent company, is still having issues with trolls and abusive comments. Periscope has found a reasonable way to deal with them. The livestreaming app introduces community moderation for comments. This works during a livestream where it allows viewers to report unwanted comments. And then a select number of viewers will vote if the comments made qualify as abusive or spam. If the majority agrees that it is, then the commenter will have his chat disabled temporarily. If he or she commits further offenses, said commenter won’t be able to share his or her thoughts for the rest of the broadcast. This helps police negative and abusive content on the service, which is a hard thing to do given the real-time nature of Periscope. The feature should be live for both iOS and Android this week.

Source: Periscope 1 + 2