Developer responds on anti-spam moderation and messaging policy
8 Sep 21 2:52 PM · 2d ago · 1 comment · 1 source · development 8 of 8
The creator acknowledged recruitment and commercial spam attempts, explaining that they use manual and automated moderation to prevent them. They also noted that Radius does not offer user-to-user DMs, only public activity/group messaging and organizer DMs, to prevent harassment.
“I've had a bunch of recruitment agencies and similar companies try to create groups - I'm mostly managing to flag those and keep them down with a combination of auto/manual moderation. Regarding the messages - that's one reason I've opted not to have user-to-user DMs.”
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I would love a meetup alternative so I gave this a look, here's my experience and feedback:Open up the site, (click away cookie consent banner), only way to see nearby events is to give location permissions for some reason (why? I just need to know what's happening in and around Amsterdam, not within x kms of my current actual location), look for…
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Gave it a try, neat idea. I would like something better suited for more ad-hoc meetups that is less commercial feeling. - would like if the member map defaulted to my location - open in sidebar on the member map doesn't do anything for me in chromium and I feel like that should be the default when you click on someone - option to suggest new…
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cool! although keyboard navigation doesn't quite work. ditto with a few of the other comments that there are a few technical issues. ran a probie navigator and there are a few quick wins in it:
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