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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users:

- Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter.

- Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out.

- Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-bait content.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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post #631

Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…

Or more realistically, the first thing he’ll do is re-platform all those that got de-platformed.

Trump 2024, here we go.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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post #631

Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…

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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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He's already said that he'd follow all local laws so it would be interesting to see if he can find the elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to shout down those not our your "side". Personally my reservations are because I think running a social media site is a lot about understanding people and defining a healthy culture for your elusive…

> defining a healthy culture for your elusive market place of ideas

After taking part in the "DevOps" cultural revolution, I feel that there is no path to mandating culture. Culture is the summation of ideas, practices, and values of all parts that participate in a system. If you try to discriminate against participants in order to get "the culture you want" then you'll end up doing some nasty discrimination along the way. That practice is also, ime, heavily correlated with ideological hell holes that lose relevancy the minute they gain relevancy because they're frozen in time along the timeline of acceptable ideas.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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post #631

Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…

> Return to a reverse chronological time

They've had this for years. Press the "swish" (stars) button top right.

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post #631

Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…

Or more realistically, the first thing he’ll do is re-platform all those that got de-platformed. Trump 2024, here we go.

Honest question : In which ways has Musk given the impression he is pro-Trump?

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Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…

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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…

I personally would love to see how many people a person has Blocked, similar to Following/Followers number.

would find it very informative about a tweeter

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