Ask HN: How are you preventing spam in live chat?

5 points by roberja90 5y ago ↗ HN

Live streaming with live chat has become huge over the last few years. The chats are a massive target for spam bots. How are you detecting/stopping spam? Automated/manual/mixed

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srcmap 5y ago ↗

Anyone can report the the spammer, admin (bot) can auto-ban him/her after certain threshold?

roberja90 5y ago ↗

"Admin bot" that sounds interesting. Any experience with 3rd party solutions or written something yourself?

alexmingoia 5y ago ↗

The solution used on IRC since the dawn of Internet chatting, is to only allow people in the chat with "voice" permission to speak. Anyone with voice permission can grant others voice permission. Mods can remove voice permission.

I'm somewhat surprised Discord, YouTube, Twitch, etc. don't have this functionality. IRC had this figured out decades ago... sigh