Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm 364
Show them while you can, Internet exhibitionists. Chatroulette is working on image-recognition software that will filter out shots of male genitalia. The website's founder, Andrey Ternovskiy, hopes that blocking the offending members will help clean up Chatroulette's reputation. He's even enlisted the help of Napster founder Shawn Fanning. I wonder if someone has told Andrey how well it went for Napster?
Re:escalation (Score:3, Informative)
Maybe they can hire Goatse Security to consult.
/snicker
Re:GREAT IDEA! (Score:5, Informative)
You're never going to out-grief the trolls.
Woah - hold up a second. Thats a great idea. No you see what they are trying is not to grief the trolls, but keep them out of the system. The idea of outgriefing a troll is an excellent idea, it should be taken to the next step.
Instead of disconnecting or dropping a user that shows his penis, instead flood his browser with tons of gay porn and goatse. Then, cause a whole bunch of message box popups that he can't get out of without killing the browser process.
And thats just an idea off the top of my head. I think if you put more thought into it, you could find some great ways to out-grief the trolls.
too late. look at yangsky.com porn detector (Score:1, Informative)
PornSeer Pro [yangsky.com]
Could do the same thing.
Re:Really... (Score:4, Informative)
Actually, it works pretty well for slashdot. Have you looked at other, non-moderated forums such as at newspaper websites? It seems at least half the posts there are trolls.
Re:Really... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Whatever. (Score:5, Informative)
Well I don't know who "ben folds" is, but chatroulette was started by a russian teen programmer named Andrey Ternovskiy, who had positive experiences meeting people of other cultures in his uncles(?) Moscow based tourist shop. He tried to recreate this on the web. His vision was random people in the world having video chats to each other, to share knowledge and experience.
There was a whole newyorker article [newyorker.com] on chatroulette. I am not surprised that he is trying to monetize it, as he is young and had alot of interest stateside (as to be expected with any viral hit web 2.0 application).
Just because it was a novelty *For You*, does not mean that you get to attribute your, shall we say "wild guesses" to the motivations and ideals behind the site. They discuss cocks and stuff in the new yorker article and it seemed to me that he was planning some sort of filtering to make it more usable. You are always going to get trolls if you have a purely anonymous fourm. Fighting trolls on the internet is a skill one has to acquire and adapt. This is what he seems to be doing, in a slightly comedic but genuinely interesting way. He seems like a bright kid, so i wouldnt write him off as a one hit wonder yet.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that chatroulette was designed to display cocks. Raging members might be what your biases have led you to focus on, but it was never "the way" of the site, any more than slashdots way is penis birds or gnaa trolls. Perhaps if you actually read a bit more about the topic before commenting, you wouldn't be so mistaken in your key assumptions. (you must be old here, mr 4 digit userid!)
Re:Whatever. (Score:3, Informative)
Well I don't know who "ben folds" is,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTwJetox_tU [youtube.com]
He calls himself Merton, but people think it's Ben Folds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Folds [wikipedia.org]
In the second one that he released he says he's not Ben Folds, but that doesn't stop rumours.