Everyone is voting "no" just to keep watching the trainwreck
I voted "yes" to confuse him
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll
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#282If this is originating from Qatar, I would speculate this poll is the result of a bet. The Emir, or another royal family member offers to make Elon whole on his $40B investment if he is willing to put his future in the hands of his users/subjects. If Elon wins, the Emir pays out, maybe for a small equity stake, and if Elon loses, the Emir gets to pick the new CEO of Twitter, and probably buys a significant equity sta…
A fun theory, but these kind of mental exercise to re-interpret an irrational decision as rational, repeatedly for certain individuals, seems frighteningly familiar.
Not everything is 4-D chess. Sometimes unforced errors are just that.
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#283For people sick of this shit I recommend changing the hacker news link to this https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...
Is there a way to only see headlines with Algolia, not story excerpts as well? The UX for the above link is really disorienting.
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#284It's instructive to contrast what other billionaires did with media properties they owned: - Jeff Bezos personally bought Washington Post but he left it alone and let the editors run it. What Jeff did do was invest some money into the IT department to modernize the workflow tools (metrics dashboards, etc) for journalists. He stayed out of the decisions of what stories get run on the front page. - Rupert Murdoch owns…
> Hopefully, Elon notices that we don't have endless HN and reddit front page articles about Rupert Murdoch's jet.
Are you kidding? He loves the attention, and we are only talking about Twitter because Elon bought it rather than some boring guy.
I still don't see the impending death of Twitter. Where is the evidence that it is going down the tubes? PG will be back, because everything bad about Twitter is even worse on Mastodon -- instead of one narcissistic Napoleon running things like Twitter, Mastodon has hundreds of them, and they are even less accountable than Elon.
If you want to kill Twitter, stopping giving it free publicity would be a good start. But you can't help yourselves, so it survives and thrives on your outrage.
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#285He could easily rig the poll, what's the point?
Lets recount
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#286OK, fine, I'll do it.
I've been discussing Twitter for a very long time at newslettr.com . If you want to go down that rabbit hole, beware.
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#287I think he only posts polls when he believes he knows the outcome already. Yesterday he posted a poll about unsuspending the journalist accounts and when the outcome wasn't what he wanted instead of following the majority vote he posted it again with different options (with the same result, which he did abide by the second time). I think this indicates he's tired of Twitter already. But he still owns it, so who will…
Last month he implied he was looking for a successor: https://www.axios.com/2022/11/16/elon-musk-twitter-ceo-new-l... Although I'm not sure who would want to run Twitter now.
I'm sure plenty of people would love that job on their CV or filling their bank account but of the actually qualified people, who would want to be micromanaged by Elon Musk? There's better options out there
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#288Can we please stop falling for this obvious tactic? How many days in a row does he have to do something seemingly-unhinged, and then follow it with some spectacle of a poll to shift the narrative? Is it really that easy ?
Obviously it is that easy, otherwise this article would not exist and would not have so many comments.
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't even think he's doing it on purpose, I think he's completely in over his head. Someone referred to Elon as "speedrunning being a forum moderator", or "running a Lowtax" and yeah, so far.
The main difference between Musk and Lowtax is that Lowtax actually built something rather than buying it.
Lowtax, at least for a while, had a Poster's Heart, something Musk does not and will never have.
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#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't even think he's doing it on purpose, I think he's completely in over his head. Someone referred to Elon as "speedrunning being a forum moderator", or "running a Lowtax" and yeah, so far.
The main difference between Musk and Lowtax is that Lowtax actually built something rather than buying it.
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