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Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by troutwine »

> No trolls.

While I'm sure some trolls do what they do for the external audience, private responses won't stop griefing just for giggles. I send a troll message to Bob, privately, get a rise out of him and screenshot the whole conversation and repost to some other platform if I want external validation.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

#5

Post by dollo_7 »

troutwine wrote: post #3

> No trolls. While I'm sure some trolls do what they do for the external audience, private responses won't stop griefing just for giggles. I send a troll message to Bob, privately, get a rise out of him and screenshot the whole conversation and repost to some other platform if I want external validation.

While you have a point, this process may make it harder to be a troll. Nowadays you can be a troll anywhere and anytime you want, specially online. I'm curious how this approach may benefit those who share their plain thoughts without the fear of being automatically targeted by trolls looking for triggered responses and tribal support.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

#6

Post by brnaftr361 »

kelseyfrog wrote: post #2

Anyone can spew unfiltered thoughts. It's the refinement of the editorial process that distills those into something valuable.

No, thoughts are work done. If they're directed but not deliberate, they're still revelatory.

Imagine a bunch of white tendrils in all directions, and every one of those has their own tendrils, and so on and so forth, like a system of roots, but a 2D manifestation of such. Now divide them and name them after scientific domains, imagine the white is what we know, imagine the black is our absence of knowledge, imagine the tendrils scale to what we do know and what we don't, how big do you think the negative space is? Now you say something stupid, that's off the beaten path, you cast a line and you wonder if it's worth reinforcing through investigation, and so you think more and more on it, and maybe you investigate it, and suddenly that stupid thought becomes fleshed out, and the question is answered.

You start from ignorance, we learn nothing new if you stay in the confines of the known - that is filtering, that is refining, that is ego pressing you to be right. Every statement has a thousand queries nested inside it, and for every answer borne from those...

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

#7

Post by zeruch »

dollo_7 wrote: post #5
troutwine wrote: post #3

> No trolls. While I'm sure some trolls do what they do for the external audience, private responses won't stop griefing just for giggles. I send a troll message to Bob, privately, get a rise out of him and screenshot the whole conversation and repost to some other platform if I want external validation.

While you have a point, this process may make it harder to be a troll. Nowadays you can be a troll anywhere and anytime you want, specially online. I'm curious how this approach may benefit those who share their plain thoughts without the fear of being automatically targeted by trolls looking for triggered responses and tribal support.

"While you have a point, this process may make it harder to be a troll."

Trolls are not lazy. If anything, their efforts are hype fixated.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

#9

Post by SamBam »

I don't really understand the purpose.

If I'm writing these thoughts for myself, why would I want to post them?

If I'm writing these thoughts to engage with an audience or wider community, why wouldn't I want them to be able to reply?

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