Giving you more characters

Post by odbol_ » Wed, Sep 27, 2017, 4:17 PM UTC

freyir wrote: post #305

c3534l wrote: post #224

It would seem to me that the solution to the problem described in the blog would be to reduce the number of characters allowed for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese users. The whole appeal of twitter, I thought, was if you said what you wanted to say the system forced you to reconsider how you said it until you got down to the bare essence of what you were trying to convey. I'd be in favor of a maximum number of tweets p…

They found out that Japanese Twitter users don’t run up against the character limit, and are less frustrated as a result. The point is to make everybody else less frustrated, not to make the Japanese as frustrated as everybody else.

Post by billmalarky » Wed, Sep 27, 2017, 4:51 PM UTC

cwkoss wrote: post #64

billmalarky wrote: post #22

Seems like one possible solution is to increase the character limit, but also increase the "pain" a user has to go through to use the additional characters (my ghetto solution would be to use a captcha to unlock the higher char limit). That way people would only use the additional chars if they really needed them, reducing noise from otherwise unnecessarily long tweets.

"Watch this 30-second ad to expand your character limit by 30 characters for this tweet!"

Post by alex7o » Wed, Sep 27, 2017, 5:03 PM UTC

jfktrey wrote: post #442

amelius wrote: post #421

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Better solution is to let users solve a complicated CAPTCHA when they want to tweet longer messages. That way, there is no social pressure to make long tweets (no reasonable person can pressure you to solve boring CAPTCHAs), while it's still there if you need it. Or, phrased differently, they should make it harder to tweet longer messages.

Micropayments! /s

Post by mintplant » Wed, Sep 27, 2017, 5:33 PM UTC

kakarot wrote: post #396

matunixe wrote: post #348

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Yeah GTFO nazi lover, you definitely not belong on Mastodon.

Took a look at your post history. It's rather negative and angry and projecting. This kind of anti-social speech is detrimental to a healty community and if you represent the average person on Mastodon then I will stay far away.

Post by politician » Wed, Sep 27, 2017, 5:43 PM UTC

politician wrote: post #448

Do you think this change will result in a positive improvement to the content of the tweets from POTUS?