My idea was to allow people to communicate with other people from all different backgrounds. This would allow people to learn about different cultures through adding friends and reading messages. I know that not everyone feels the way i do and someone could use this to send out evil messages and simply be mean.
Although i can never really prevent this from happening I could use safe guards on messages. To do this i tried to find every word i could think of that could be used to taunt people from different cultures and any word i felt that doesn’t belong with this application. Once i had these words I then wrote some PHP code to replace any of my chosen words with a hashed out version ####. This would then not upset any other user with its contents. When the message is shown to the user it is then hashed out locally so the contents would always be viewable to me.
I wanted to create a report button function that said “if you see to many #’s in a message then report the user”. This would then be stored in a database and count the reports of a user. I wanted then to create a statistics section where i could see a table with the users with the most reports. The i could view there message then take action. This was going to be my intention but wasn’t able to complete due to time.