Periscope Strikes Back Against Troll Epidemic
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After only having been live for a matter of weeks, Twitter’s video-streaming weapon-of-choice has been overrun with nasty trolls. Sadly,
though perhaps not unsurprisingly, the majority of the unpleasant comments on
feeds are directed at women, and relate to their physical appearance.
Twitter can't seem to catch a break with this kind of thing at
the moment, having weathered a massive storm of issues owing to abuse,
photo-leaking and general horribleness on their main platform recently,
resulting in several famous names walking away from the site for good.
With that in mind, they aren’t pulling any punches this time
around. Periscope has already received several significant updates since being
released, with all of them allowing broadcasters more control over their feeds.
The crux of this is a new ‘follower only’ mode which prohibits anyone but people
you follow from commenting on your feed. All anyone else can do is send hearts,
which makes it pretty hard to be cruel, unless you know that the uploader had a
heart attack recently and you want to call attention to it.
It’s also easier now to block people from a stream, should
you choose to make it more publically available for whatever reason.
Additionally, Periscope will aumtomatically disable comments on any feed that
gets too cluttered. That’s a bit of a double-edged sword, since it might end up
tempering perfectly legitimate discussions on popular video feeds. This is all
just testament to the fact that Periscope is still very much in the
developmental stage of its life, Twitter will have to beat back a lot of
niggling issues as it matures, so in that regard it’s good that they figured
out a serviceable way to disarm the trolls this early on in the game, before
any really horrendous abuse had a chance to start bubbling up.
Callum Davies
Callum is a film school graduate who is now making a name for himself as a journalist and content writer. His vices include flat whites and 90s hip-hop. Follow him @CallumAtSMF
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