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Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Why are you adding () after "like"? Havent seen that convention before, so I am unaware of the meaning.

I was assuming there's a trademark symbol ™ that had been stripped by HN. But since I've managed to post one, I'm apparently wrong!

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

#102
post #3

When people ask you why you hate twitter threads, show them this hodgepodge of short sentences with sandwiched CO2 removal advertisements.

>this hodgepodge of short sentences with sandwiched CO2 removal advertisements I had to stop after the tree myths. Was it related to content moderation at all?

No it wasn’t, pure shilling

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

#104
post #100

His argument makes no sense. If this is indeed why they are banning people, why keep the reasoning a secret? Honestly, every ban should come with a public explanation from the network, in order to deter similar behavior. The way things are right now, it's unclear if, when, and for what reason someone will be banned. People get banned all the time with little explanation or explanations that make no sense or are incon…

From my understanding, he's not claiming this is how twitter currently works. He's offering advice about how to solve content moderation on twitter.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

#105
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

Imagine it is a text and you can mark any paragraph. You can save that paragraph, like it, or even reply to it. So the interaction can grow like tentacles (edit: or rather like a tree). Right now, I could make a comment on either your first or second paragraph, or on your entire comment. However, there is no way to determine which category my reply falls into until you have read it entirely. On a platform like Twitte…

I am imaging a normal long-form blog format but with comments collapsed after each paragraph as a compromise between the two current options.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

#106
post #61

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 thi…

You're not Twitter's customer. Advertisers are.

And they don't want their brands to be associated with unpleasant content.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

#107
post #22
post #4

> Our current climate of political polarization makes it easy to think itʻs about the content of the speech, or hate speech, or misinformation, or censorship, or etc etc. Are we sure that it is not the other way around? Didn't social platforms created or increased polarization? I always see this comments from social platforms that take as fact that society is polarized and they work hard to fix it, when I believe tha…

Real society is not that polarized. If you talk to real people they mostly have moderate political opinions. But they don't tweet about politics. Twitter is not a real place.

I used to think this until several instances of various neighbors getting drunk enough to shed the veil of souther hospitality and reveal how racist they are.

Plenty of people have radical thoughts and opinions, but are smart enough to keep it to themselves IRL

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

#109
post #39
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

What got me was him weaving in (2-3 times) self promotion tweets of some tree planting company he funds/founded(?). He basically personally embedded ads into his thread, which is actually kind of smart I suppose, but very confusing as a reader.

I didn’t even know he circled around back to the topic. I split when I got to “TREES!” and wondering “that’s it?”

After this comment I went back to read the rest.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

#110
post #22
post #4

> Our current climate of political polarization makes it easy to think itʻs about the content of the speech, or hate speech, or misinformation, or censorship, or etc etc. Are we sure that it is not the other way around? Didn't social platforms created or increased polarization? I always see this comments from social platforms that take as fact that society is polarized and they work hard to fix it, when I believe tha…

Real society is not that polarized. If you talk to real people they mostly have moderate political opinions. But they don't tweet about politics. Twitter is not a real place.

Society is a closed system, twitter is not outside of society.

The people on twitter are real people (well, mostly, probably), and have real political opinions.

If you talk to people, by and large they'll profess moderate opinions, because in person discussions still trigger politeness and non-confrontational emotions in most people, so the default 'safe' thing to say is the moderate choice, no matter what their true opinion happens to be.

The internet allows people to take the proverbial mask off.

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