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I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

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I'm surprised at seeing no reference to reddit which does allow for participation and discussion.

Reddit makes it much harder for you to completely shelter yourself from people who disagree with you (compared to, say, facebook). Some of the content of his post strongly suggests that he defines 'community' by his ability to block people he doesn't like or agree with.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

#152

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I can't disagree with you, even if I really want to. I'm the same way, I want people to stop using Twitter, because I don't want to use it. I went to dotgo this month, much of the last minute communication was on Twitter, which is a really annoying platform to navigate when you don't have an account. I want to get other people of the platforms that I don't use, so I'm not forced to deal with them myself. Being push t…

>me being bitter about Twitter, JavaScript, smartphones, tablets and all the other stuff I really don't care about Can you elaborate why you are bitter about the above?

Well, for Javascript it's obvious. Not sure about the rest.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

#153

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.

Yes, there is a lot of negativity here. Do you really think that its based on a misunderstanding of his post? Maybe the negativity is a result of people understanding his post, and having different - arguably better - values than he does.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

#154
post #111

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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 bl…

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Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

#155
I cannot understand why this thread seems to be so popular. I'm not sure if I ever heard of this Alex Gaynor before (although he seems to have some recognition, but not really much), this article explains to some degree why he hates twitter, not why twitter is harmful for the universe and as stated in the comments many times already there isn't much constructive critique in his reasoning. So, essentially it is simply "somebody wrote he doesn't like something" post and would be of interest only if this "somebody" is some really special person.

Can somebody explain?

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

#156
post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 bl…

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Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

#157
post #33

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I don't want to speak for the author, but an argument could be made that a product that: 1) Is massively popular; and 2) Has design flaws that actively sabotage conversation ... could lead to a situation where "B would be better if A went away," due to network effects. No matter how good an alternative B you build, people will keep on suffering with A despite its limitations , because that's where all the other peopl…

Twitter doesn't have a design flaw, it sets out to do what it wants and it does so spectacularly. Twitter is a platform for announcements not for conversations (although many try to use it for that very thing). People who think twitter is a conversation platform are #doingitwrong. Period. People who try to use twitter for conversations and get angry when it doesn't work well or some random stranger barges in and star…

Twitter is something that missed its potential. They created something that is/was incredibly powerful, but actively undermined it in wacky ways.

IMO they could have been the killer app. That potential fell a little short and it's just another marketing funnel for TV people.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

#158
post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 bl…

The pull request was rejected as part of nodejs's standard policy of rejecting small changes to the documentation or code comments. When isaacs merged it in manually, bnoordhuis reverted the commit because it broke the rules: all changes landing in master had to be signed-off by one of the head maintainers, and his wasn't.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

#159
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?

> His Twitter account is linked in the header, and it just posted about this article.

Some people link their social media presences together so that posts made in one place get replicated on various socia media things, for the benefit of people who follow them on those social media things. That doesn't mean they have to enjoy that particular social media whatsit's experience, or can't criticize it.

The only thing that you can tell from comments being disabled is that he doesn't want to have this specific conversation on the specific venue that is comments to his blog post. Trying to extrapolate that into some stance of I HATE HAVING CONVERSATIONS is stupid.

Re: I Hope Twitter Goes Away

#160
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?

> His Twitter account is linked in the header, and it just posted about this article. Some people link their social media presences together so that posts made in one place get replicated on various socia media things, for the benefit of people who follow them on those social media things. That doesn't mean they have to enjoy that particular social media whatsit's experience, or can't criticize it. The only thing tha…

He isn't just criticizing it. He is saying it shouldn't exist.

It is hypocritical to use it and exclaim that it shouldn't be used.

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