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Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by ilyt »

rakoo wrote: post #121
Karawebnetwork wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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 That is exactly what quoting does, and is older than the web itself.

The less inept sites also allow you to just select text and click reply to get that quote and your cursor set below, ready for reply

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by pjc50 »

ItsBob wrote: 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…

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

This is what the existing block feature does?

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by Karawebnetwork »

ilyt wrote: post #138
Karawebnetwork wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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 Twitter, where there can be up to 100,000 comments on a given piece of content, this is very useful. Oh, look, I have managed to reply to your second paragraph without having to use twatter,…

There would be a lot of noise if everyone left 5 comments under every comments. This is not the way HN is built. Commenting too quickly even blocks you from interacting.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by Canada »

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

If only there was some site that was good for posting longer text, with a really good comment system to discuss it...

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by drewbeck »

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

There’s a study to be done on the polarization around twitter threads. I have zero problem with them and find overall that lots of great ideas are posted in threads, and the best folks doing it end up with super cogent and well written pieces. I find it baffling how many folks are triggered by them and really hate them!

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by Invictus0 »

jameskilton wrote: post #9

Every single social media platform that has ever existed makes the same fundamental mistake. They believe that they just have to remove or block the bad actors and bad content and that will make the platform good. The reality is everyone , myself included, can be and will be a bad actor. How do you build and run a "social media" product when the very act of letting anyone respond to anyone with anything is itself the…

I'm not a bad actor, I only have 3 tweets and they're all reasonable IMO. So your premise is wrong.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by pjc50 »

heed wrote: post #39
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

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.

Kind of genius to put it in the middle. Most normal people write a tweet that blows up and then have to append "Check out my soundcloud!" on the end. Or an advert for the nightsky lamp.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by mikkergp »

hunglee2 wrote: post #47

"there will be NO relation between the topic of the content and whether you moderate it, because itʻs the specific posting behavior thatʻs a problem" some interesting thoughts from Yishan, a novel way to look at the problem.

I thought this point was overstated, twitter certainly has some controversial content related rules and while as the CEO of Reddit he may have been mostly fighting macro battles, there are certainly content related things that both networks censor.

Re: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

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Post by rchaud »

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

If you want to talk diarrhea, look no further than those "save to Readwise / Notion / Pocket" comments that pollute most of these long threads.
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