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I find Twitter amazing. (though I'm currently suspended again - https://twitter.com/breckyunits ). The trick is not to have a smart phone. When I'm coding I can pop in and out of Twitter. But then when I close the lid I'm unplugged.
I took Twitter off my laptop and kept it only on my phone. This keeps it from competing with work. (Unfortunately now HN competes with work.)
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I think this is part of the super annoying to me trend of double speaking to avoid using overtly negative words. “Banned” is a negative word so we don’t want to use that. But we still want to ban you, thus “permanently suspended.” It’s not a new trend as “made redundant” (ie, fired) and “focusing on value” (ie, cancelled your project) are all over press releases and public communication. I think it makes me feel wors…
Isn't suspended a negative word too? Maybe banned is too vague in that it could mean you had access now you don't OR you were never allowed access in the first place. What I'm saying is "permanently suspended" isn't sugar coating what happened
This is entirely subjective, but to me saying "Banned" is terse, rough, and firm. It spits out like a slap.
Being "suspended" is temporary. It sounds more gentle, less gruff. (Almost) all kids have been "suspended" from a sport or activity because of something that they did, but they were allowed to play again after a short period. The catch is the qualifier being "Permanently" changes it to being a Ban, but it doesn't sound that way at first.
Language is silly. You can say the same thing in very different ways that come across more or less negative, and I think that's the same as what's happening in the corporate veiled speech.
I have no doubt a lot of them are.
But it is possible it was reviewed by a human and an inexplicable decision was made.
I've moderated large forums before, the variety of misunderstandings and confusion a moderator can experience is nearly infinite ...
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I find Twitter amazing. (though I'm currently suspended again - https://twitter.com/breckyunits ). The trick is not to have a smart phone. When I'm coding I can pop in and out of Twitter. But then when I close the lid I'm unplugged.
But why do you keep getting suspended?
I made an instagram account 20 minutes ago, and was permabanned on my first ever login...
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I’ve stopped using Amazon after AWS started political censorship. Actually, saves you a lot of money: much less impulse buying. It appears a lot of my impulse buying was caused by my trust in Amazon return policy :)
that is not political censorship, it is illegal for US businesses to do business with Russia because of sanctions. The sanctions themselves are political, but not following them is not a choice for US businesses.
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I’ve stopped using Amazon after AWS started political censorship. Actually, saves you a lot of money: much less impulse buying. It appears a lot of my impulse buying was caused by my trust in Amazon return policy :)
that is not political censorship, it is illegal for US businesses to do business with Russia because of sanctions. The sanctions themselves are political, but not following them is not a choice for US businesses.
I occasionally get spam replies, but not very often. I just block the account, problem solved. I don't feel it affects my overall Twitter experience much. In fact, I'm vastly more annoyed by real humans who reply to me with insults. Or real human Twitter "influencers" who start quote tweet memes that everyone obsequiously follows, "spamming" my timeline with the same tweet over and over. In other words, IMO the humans are worse than the bots. ;-)
I'm not Twitter famous. I've got several thousand followers, which is significant but not huge. Maybe if you have millions of followers, bot replies are a much bigger problem for you. But then again, if you have millions of followers, nasty real human replies are also a much bigger problem for you. Fame is a no-win scenario, except just ignoring replies entirely.
If you use the reverse chronological timeline, you only see tweets from the people you intentionally follow. (I wouldn't advise anyone to use the algorithmic timeline, unless you're into masochism.) So I literally never see bot spam in my timeline. Spam isn't really affecting me. OTOH I never tweet about "crypto"...
Ben's account is already un-suspended, but only because he has a major presence and large audience (I would be shocked if people at Twitter didn't see this minutes into it happening or if Ben didn't have some direct line to various high up employees there). For the rest of us peasants: good luck getting help.