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Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by codyb »

serve_yay wrote: post #97
jsmthrowaway wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Oh my god, everything about the discussion of this article is nuts. What are you talking about?!

I did some quick research and found this [0]. It seems he rewrote some documentation changing "he/she/etc" to "they/them/etc". Doesn't seem like a terrible thing to do really. I had never particularly thought about the issue. The pull request was denied by another guy for some reason. I can't imagine caring if the "he"s get changed to "they"s.

Then everyone came out and started criticizing the other guy and it all blew up. I can see not necessarily spending time changing the documentation (it's certainly an easy task to set aside for later or not even think about in the first place) but to deny the pull request seems to be in bad taste in my opinion. It's not as if people who might normally use "he"s would see the the "they"s and have some sort of problem with it so if people want "they"s give the people "they"s if someone does it for you.

[0] - http://www.dailydot.com/news/github-gendered-pronoun-debate/

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by abhididdigi »

morganvachon wrote: post #27
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?

> He claims to want to encourage conversations, but comments are disabled. That bothered me as well, especially his flippant attitude about it ("Comments are never going to happen. Stop trying to make comments happen"). I get the joke, it's from that Lindsay Lohan movie. But the cognitive dissonance that it creates is annoying. He's basically saying "I want Twitter to die because they don't allow proper conversations…

He says though, you can email him, write your own email blog, except that you don't comment on his blog.

Does that mean he doesn't want communication to happen?

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by squar1sm »

Yeah it's weird he still has a twitter account but I completely agree with him. Especially when I try to engage in a meaningful conversation. It's like excusing yourself from a loud party to talk to someone about something deep or complicated. Twitter is a party.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by abhididdigi »

Lots of Negativity here again. Most of the commenter here are saying it is wrong when he says Twitter should die because it doesn't encourage good communication, and then blocks his own comments section. It just means he wants to have a meaningful communication.

He says, you can email him, or write your own blog post to refute or add on to what he says. That way you will be facilitating a great communication.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by forgottenpass »

serve_yay wrote: post #97
jsmthrowaway wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Oh my god, everything about the discussion of this article is nuts. What are you talking about?!

What are you talking about?!

News: https://gigaom.com/2013/12/02/slap-fight-in-node-js-land/

The drama pull request in question: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/commit/804d40ee14dc0f82c482d...

Alex authored the commit that 804d40e reverted, and when the drama was going down Alex rallied the troops on Twitter.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by forgottenpass »

tux3 wrote: post #21
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?

>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.

You say "seems," but it doesn't just seem like that, it is exactly that. The terminology he uses is "safe space." It doesn't mean zero joking or disagreement, but only the type and levels he approves of (minor point, but I'll clarify because I don't want conversation to degrade to pedantics).

Why should he care if others use Twitter ?

If I had to jump into speculation, I'd say he cares because he feels excluded from a tool many of the rest of us can choose to ignore or live with.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by gameshot911 »

How to make Twitter go away: Stop talking about it, writing about it, using it, thinking about it.

How not to make Twitter go away: Write blog articles about how you want Twitter to go away, which are then shared and posted across the Internet.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Post by tweakerbee »

jacquesm wrote: post #69
penprog wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So because your mobile phone provider is incompetent twitter is a bad platform? Who is your provider btw? That sort of bad acting should be named and shamed (on a platform like twitter perhaps?)

It was merely meant as an illustration of why some people hold 'conversations' on twitter. The provider is Vodafone.

One simple solution: send them an old school registered letter. They'll have to read it, or at least sign for it. In that letter you can let them know how displeased you are, and announce that you will a) continue to send registered letters and b) will change telco as soon as you can.
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