Russian-based adult chat site Chatroulette says it may implement penis-recognition software to filter out unsolicited cock pics for the rest of its users.

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Can Chatroulette become something more? Look for feature changes soon that will try to send all those penises to the background. The service may add software that can quickly scan video to determine if a penis is being shown. And users that are consistently quickly skipped over (presumably because they are exposing themselves or otherwise being disgusting) can be flagged as well. With those and other changes Chatroulette may be able to put people who actually want to talk to each other in touch much more often.

You know what’s encouraging about this story? No, not the software, although I can think of a number of cool uses for that kind of app. It’s that people still try out new places to talk sexy to each other on the internet.

And you know me, I don’t freak out about penis photos. It’s not the penises themselves that bug me, it’s the rudeness of impinging upon other people’s experience, whether through deliberation or cluelessness. I don’t care if you’re flooding the service with pictures of cocks or kittens — it’s simply not polite to impose.