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🐝 Running an Online Beekeeping Community

A growing hex-comb community graph where a moderation gate filters incoming members and spam before they reach the hive, and a moderator bee patrols leaked clutter.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS

A hex-comb community graph grows one cell at a time as members are accepted through a moderation gate, while spam and misinformation that leak through pile up as clutter that a moderator bee must patrol away.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Community growth as an accept/reject filtering process: strictness trades off spam blocking against false-positive bounces of genuine members, and unpatrolled leaked content directly erodes measured community health.

🎮 How to Use

Set growth rate, moderation strictness and the spam share, pick a platform, and toggle the moderator patrol. Watch the hive fill with lit cells, spam get blocked at the gate, and any leaked clutter get slowly cleaned up.

💡 Did You Know?

Real beekeeping Facebook groups and forums routinely report that the biggest driver of volunteer moderator burnout isn't spam volume alone — it's under-resourced moderation combined with strictness set so high it also frustrates genuine new beekeepers.

⚙ Under the hood

A growing hex-comb community graph where a moderation gate filters incoming members and spam before they reach the hive, and a moderator bee patrols leaked clutter.

beeshivecommunitymoderationsimulationonlineThree.js

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install