Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation • Hacker News Board

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by ItsBob » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:34 PM UTC

Here's a radical idea: let me moderate my own shit!

Twitter is a subscription-based system (by this, I mean that I have to subscribe to someone's content) so if I subscribe to someone and don't like what they say then buh-bye!

Let me right click on a comment/tweet (I don't use social media so not sure of the exact terminology the kids use these days) with the options of:

- Hide this comment

- Hide all comments in this thread from

- Block all comments in future from (you can undo this in settings).

That would work for me.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by thesuitonym » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:34 PM UTC

belorn wrote: post #20

> Moderating spam is very interesting: it is almost universally regarded as okay to ban (i.e. CENSORSHIP) but spam is in no way illegal. Interesting, in my country spam is very much illegal and I would hazard a guess that it is also illegal in the US, similar to how littering, putting up posters on peoples buildings/cars/walls, graffiti (a form of spam), and so on is also illegal. If I received the amount of spam I g…

Unsolicited phone calls are somewhat illegal, but it's dependent on circumstances. It's the same with email spam and mail spam. One person's spam is another person's cold call. Where do you draw the line? Is mailing a flier with coupons spam? Technically yes, but some people find value in it.

In the US, spam is protected speech, but as always, no company is required to give anybody a platform.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by P_I_Staker » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:35 PM UTC

Key word here: ex (joking)... but seriously I'm absolutely baffled why someone would look to a former reddit exec for advice on moderation.

I guess you could say that they have experience, having made all the mistakes, and figured it out through trial and error! This seems to be his angle.

What I got from the whole reddit saga is how horrible the decision making was, and won't be looking to them for sage advice. These people are an absolute joke.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by fknorangesite » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:36 PM UTC

lm28469 wrote: post #11

Reading these threads on twitter is like listening to a friend having a bad mdma trip replaying his whole emotional life to you in a semi incoherent diarrhea like stream of thoughts Please write a book, or at the very least an article... posting on twitter is like writing something on a piece of paper, showing it to your best friend and worst enemy before throwing it in the trash

At this point, posting this sentiment on HN is more boring and irritating than the tweet-thread format could ever be.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by P_I_Staker » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:36 PM UTC

polytely wrote: post #42

lm28469 wrote: post #11

Reading these threads on twitter is like listening to a friend having a bad mdma trip replaying his whole emotional life to you in a semi incoherent diarrhea like stream of thoughts Please write a book, or at the very least an article... posting on twitter is like writing something on a piece of paper, showing it to your best friend and worst enemy before throwing it in the trash

I've never understood this, it's just reading: you start at the beginning of tweet, you read it, then go to the next tweet and read it. How is that different from reading paragraphs?

You gotta understand their angle...

... in the early days of the internet ...

... comments could be very, very long; the user was given a virtual unbounded battleground to fight their ideological battles ...

... The public, the rabble, couldn't stop.. The words kept coming; a torrent of consonants and vowels descending upon our eye ba ... (limit exceeded)

... lls like an avalanche of ideas ...

... it was too much and twitter was borne ...

... the people keep their ideas small, like their tiny brains, and non-existent attention spans ...

P.S. I was gonna write this as a comment chain, but HackerNews, in all their wisdom, limits self-replies to only one

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:37 PM UTC

P_I_Staker wrote: post #65

polytely wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never understood this, it's just reading: you start at the beginning of tweet, you read it, then go to the next tweet and read it. How is that different from reading paragraphs?

You gotta understand their angle... ... in the early days of the internet ... ... comments could be very, very long; the user was given a virtual unbounded battleground to fight their ideological battles ... ... The public, the rabble, couldn't stop.. The words kept coming; a torrent of consonants and vowels descending upon our eye ba ... (limit exceeded) ... lls like an avalanche of ideas ... ... it was too much and…

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Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by fknorangesite » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:37 PM UTC

nfin wrote: post #55

danwee wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I gave up after the 3rd tweet in the thread. I can't understand why Twitter threads are a thing.

my guess is that people can like () individual posts. The positive of that is: a) possibility to like () just one post, or 2, 3… depending of who good the thread is b) the fine granular way to like () gives the algorithm way better possibilities to whom to show a thread and even better, to first show just one intereting post out of that thread (also people can mores easily quote or retweet individual parts of a threa…

Or retweet individual posts. It makes each one a possible pull-quote.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by threeseed » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:37 PM UTC

invalidusernam3 wrote: post #59

Just add a dislike button and put controversial tweets collapsed at the bottom. It works well for reddit. Let the community moderate themselves.

Reddit tried to just let communities moderate themselves.

It resulted in rampant child pornography, doxxing, death threats, gory violence etc. It epitomised the worst of humanity.

Now the Reddit admins keep a watch on moderators and if their subreddits do not meet site-wide standards they are replaced.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by mikkergp » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:37 PM UTC

lm28469 wrote: post #50

polytely wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never understood this, it's just reading: you start at the beginning of tweet, you read it, then go to the next tweet and read it. How is that different from reading paragraphs?

idk man Maybe we could put more Words in a single Please visit my new website and subscribe to my podcast Line so it would be More readable random user comment: yes you're right mark that would be better and much more user friendly _ insert latest Musk schizophrenic rant_ Ah and I forgot the "sign up to read the rest" pop up that seemingly appears at random interval

This is great! It’s like modern poetry. I think the research suggests less words per line make it faster reading too.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by Karunamon » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 1:38 PM UTC

miiiiiike wrote: post #49

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

It was a massive stream of tweets, with two long digressions, and several embeds. The only thing that would have made it worse is if every tweet faded in on scroll. If we're going to pedantically point out rules, why don't we add one that says "No unrolled Twitter threads."?

It is not pedantic, it is people derailing possibly interesting discussion of the content with completely off-topic noise discussion of the presentation. If you do not like the presentation there are ways to change it.