I thought you wanted to be serious?
Poll: Should links to Twitter / X be banned on Overclockers?
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Did I miss a sarcasm emote here?
It was clearly a nazi salute.
Edit: and on that basis it's a yes vote from me.
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Commissario
Keep it on the subject of whether links to twitter / x should be banned please.
Soldato
the reliability of the source being twitter/x is extremely low.. if it's actual news, then the reference should be the orginal source of the infomation.
I don't understand why people would open a thread here to discuss a topic that already has a thread on twitter/x, just join that discussion thread..
Anyone with an interest in that twitter post would sure have it pop up on their timeline already?
Personally I'm not on x/twitter nor do I feel that I'm missing anything, I am on fb, but when fb gives me a suggested post that I may like, I end up blocking the account that posted it as it's normally some **** that I don't care about.
I don't want information forced on me during my freetime, reguardless if the infomation is vaild or not.
I don't understand why people would open a thread here to discuss a topic that already has a thread on twitter/x, just join that discussion thread..
Anyone with an interest in that twitter post would sure have it pop up on their timeline already?
Personally I'm not on x/twitter nor do I feel that I'm missing anything, I am on fb, but when fb gives me a suggested post that I may like, I end up blocking the account that posted it as it's normally some **** that I don't care about.
I don't want information forced on me during my freetime, reguardless if the infomation is vaild or not.
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Caporegime
Twitter has never been a platform for free speech, before or after Elon. Not absolute anyway.
Before if you post anything actually bad, morally or legally, you get banned.
Now you will get banned if you criticise that Nazi.
I have not posted anything on there in ages, I think I've ever only posted about 10 things.
Before if you post anything actually bad, morally or legally, you get banned.
Now you will get banned if you criticise that Nazi.
I have not posted anything on there in ages, I think I've ever only posted about 10 things.
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I voted yes, less because of the Musk/Free Speech angle and more because it's a pain in the bum when you click into the first unread post of a thread and then after a couple of seconds all the embedded media loads and you end up half a page up or down from where you wanted to be. Especially annoying with man-sized pages of 100 posts per page.
It's a popular social media platform where people post things, be it their opinion or news and content etc.
Regardless of the owner doing/not doing something questionable, if you ban the whole thing based on one person's actions, you're basically saying all users of that platform are represented by him and have the same opinions as him, which is just categorically not true.
Do you ban all BBC News links because of what Huw Edwards did?
Regardless of the owner doing/not doing something questionable, if you ban the whole thing based on one person's actions, you're basically saying all users of that platform are represented by him and have the same opinions as him, which is just categorically not true.
Do you ban all BBC News links because of what Huw Edwards did?
Caporegime
The massive hole in that argument is Huw Edwards isn't the head/owner of the BBC currently.
Huw Edwards has been kicked out and no longer being associated with the BBC.
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I think it is more to do with Musk being the final arbiter of what is and isn't allowed that is the problem. He allows Nazi's to post on Twitter which going by yesterday's fascist salute suggests he supports them. I am honestly surprised any business would continue to use twitter now purely to avoid any suggestion that they support fascism.
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Yes sure, but it's still the actions of one individual marring something by association. What happens if we ban it here, then Musk suddenly sells X next month? Do we reverse our decision and allow it back again simply because the one guy who did that bad thing is gone now?
Soldato
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I don't want it banned, but would rather it's subject to moderation/ rules:
Limiting (daily limit?) number of twitter embeds, per user
Suspensions for links with no context
Suspensions for posting false information/ clear lack of accuracy checking by poster prior to posting
To be fair, youtube is subject to the same poor user behaviour here ("watch this 30 minute video, as I can't be bothered summarising my own points").
Limiting (daily limit?) number of twitter embeds, per user
Suspensions for links with no context
Suspensions for posting false information/ clear lack of accuracy checking by poster prior to posting
To be fair, youtube is subject to the same poor user behaviour here ("watch this 30 minute video, as I can't be bothered summarising my own points").
Yep, this might be the solution.
Caporegime
This is leftist BS.
Now show the videos of those photos and compare plus take the actions and motivations of the people photographed into account. This is desperate stuff. I knew Overclockers forums is more right wing leaning but I didn't realise it was this entrenched. Please take this type of nonsense post to the Elon thread.
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This is leftist BS.
do better man. I onced lifted my arm up to stretch and it may have looked like Barrack or Clinton. Heck, I even waved once.Stop coping in this one - it is far easier to cope by explaining what it probably was, an autistic getting carried away/in the moment with a "from the heart" statement.
Caporegime
Yes, that was my point. Huw Edwards is both no longer associated with the BBC and he was never the owner, judge and executioner in the first place.