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I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by hvs »

schoen wrote: post #65
djloche wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter has a great feature of showing you the @reply messages by the people you follow, only if you follow that same person as well. For example, if you sent me an @reply message to me ( @djloche ) that message would only show up in the feeds of your followers IF they followed me as well. This means you can have a conversation about the latest film with me, the party last night with your co-workers, and a pancake re…

I guess that helps quite a lot in preventing group conflicts from getting out of hand accidentally. It seems like a weaker control if someone is deliberately trying to get involved in a conversation where other people would see them as unwelcome.

They can all choose to block him, though. And they don't need to include him in their replies.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by serve_yay »

cr3ative wrote: post #3

Wait, is this satire? His Twitter account is linked in the header, and it just posted about this article. He claims to want to encourage conversations, but comments are disabled. What is this?

It says send him an email. Maybe you think he's imposing undue restrictions on the conversation, but I don't think it's fair to say someone doesn't want a conversation because they would prefer to have it in one medium over the other. Plus comments need to be moderated, etc.

Are you actually engaging with his comments regarding Twitter or just whipping out a lame tu quoque?

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by ChuckMcM »

This line stood out for me, "Twitter has absolutely no way for me to share with others that someone isn't a person I want in my communities; unless they do something so bad as to actually get banned from Twitter"

I've heard this several times from people with large followers, basically that they can't escape the bad actors without taking their account private. I don't think this is a Twitter issue so much as it is a everyone-on-the-network-has-the-same-volume issue. In the 'real' world, the relative population sizes of trolls vs non-trolls means that trolls get drowned out by the noise. But on the Internet everyone gets the same level of 'voice' and a minority can drown out the majority, especially if they are willing to be antisocial about it.

It is a hard problem. A naturally troll resistant but otherwise frictionless sharing platform. Maybe a voting button on every tweet, that is 'troll factor' (so +1 if they are a troll, -1 if they aren't) then use some data analytics to marginalize trolls. Seems like fertile ground for some fresh thinking.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by LukeB_UK »

lnanek2 wrote: post #71
cr3ative wrote: post #3

Wait, is this satire? His Twitter account is linked in the header, and it just posted about this article. He claims to want to encourage conversations, but comments are disabled. What is this?

The article is all about how he doesn't want to communicate with people unless they are in his specifically selected group of people he thinks is OK. So allowing blog comments would probably let anyone communicate, which is what he dislikes about Twitter. So I see the blog comments being disabled as more in line with his philosophy, at least.

So Facebook groups/google+ communities?

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by tbatterii »

ironically one of the reasons i've entertained the idea of quitting twitter is b/c of annoying things that showed up in my feed from the author(and others). But I just un-followed him instead. the technical things I'm interested in, but I dont care for the politics so much.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by lnanek2 »

todayiscrown wrote: post #48

I'm confused. His opening says >>> About seven months ago, I abruptly quit Twitter. And this is his twitter >>> http://imgur.com/xAyW4h1 Last I checked oct 21st's not "seven months ago" What gives?

Could just be automatic posting from his blogging clients.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by walterbell »

jsmthrowaway wrote: post #31
tux3 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>He claims to want to encourage conversations He certainly does not want to encourage conversation. >Twitter has absolutely no way for me to share with others that someone isn't a person I want in my communities; It seems that what this person wants is that everyone he talks to think like he does. That's not a community, that's an echo chamber with no disagreeing, no joking, no comments. It's okay if he doesn't like…

> It seems that what this person wants is that everyone he talks to think like he does. It's interesting that you say that, given that this is the same person who started a firestorm of drama by pull requesting gendered documentation in Node.js.

Good to know, thanks.
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