Periscope abusive live comments to be voted in or out by viewers

A 'flash jury' of randomly selected users will be asked to decide whether flagged comments are abusive, spammy or OK

Periscope, Twitter's live video streaming service, is experimenting with using a "flash jury" of users to decide whether abusive commenters deserve to be blocked from the site.

The feature is one of the more inventive ways to tackle abusive comments, a problem which is particularly hard to manage on a platform where all comments are overlaid on a live broadcast and sometimes even over the face of the broadcaster.