@rrhoover Agreed. I've been a long time fan of the different chat services like Yik Yak etc, but anonymous chat usually turns into a mess real fast. With CityBee's local chat I very early decided against anonymity, while still providing a mechanism to protect users' locations, in an effort to foster community-based chat. I'm still thinking about ways to prevent such abuse, whether this is AI based, or just letting the community flag content, but since the user base is so small right now it hasn't been an issue :) Still an interesting topic to think about. Even Facebook can't fully prevent abuse/spam or ensure account identities. I'm sure as chat AI gets more sophisticated we will see some cool tech to help solve this issue beyond word filters and such, maybe getting into user emotion and intent. Maybe chat bots will lead the way?
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