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Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?

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The challenge seems to be that 1-3 in your list are highly subjective. 1. Requires a common definition of spamming. If a bot is posting headlines for the NYT on their official account is that spam? A person really eagerly replying to everyone about their favorite band? Someone trying really hard to sell you their diet pills? Musk seems to think all these are equally OK (except maybe the nyt bot). 2. Musk has been san…

1. Yes, but in practice people have a good shared understanding of what spam means. Email filters have few problems with defining this. To answer your questions: 1a. No, automated posting is not spamming any more than a mailing list is the same thing as spam. 1b. No, a fan "really eagerly replying" is not spam. 1c. Someone "trying really hard" to sell diet pills can be, you've been too vague to answer there. Generall…

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376

Musk himself claims that the only curtailment is "what is prohibited by law". This isn't some tweet dragged from his history, either. It's from two days ago, and is on this topic.

Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?

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1. Yes, but in practice people have a good shared understanding of what spam means. Email filters have few problems with defining this. To answer your questions: 1a. No, automated posting is not spamming any more than a mailing list is the same thing as spam. 1b. No, a fan "really eagerly replying" is not spam. 1c. Someone "trying really hard" to sell diet pills can be, you've been too vague to answer there. Generall…

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376 Musk himself claims that the only curtailment is "what is prohibited by law". This isn't some tweet dragged from his history, either. It's from two days ago, and is on this topic.

He's also talked about solving the spambot problem. These two things are not in tension.

People seem to acting like Musk's position is full of gotcha's or some incredibly complex experiment that's never been tried before. It's not. That policy was and still is used by many different discussion forums for a very long time. It's actually the post-Trump Twitter approach that's the experiment here and it's been failing hard.

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