The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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ron3003 said:
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Even if your lolz fix was correct, it still means twitter is promoting one specific set of views over others.

Hardly the free speech town hall it was going to be.

It's always been toxic but at least you used to get a more balanced set of comments and subsequent posts were easier to follow
 
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It looks like Musk has decided it's been too long without removing a feature that everyone uses in his attempts to make Twitter worse/kill it off.

He's talking about removing the block function again.
 
I think the block function should allow you to no longer see someone elses posts, I don't think the block function should stop another user from reading what you've wrote. Twitter is a public forum, it's not like having Facebook friends where you choose who can read your posts, Twitter is very deliberately public.
 
Roar87 said:
I think the block function should allow you to no longer see someone elses posts, I don't think the block function should stop another user from reading what you've wrote. Twitter is a public forum, it's not like having Facebook friends where you choose who can read your posts, Twitter is very deliberately public.
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So posters have to put up with people on mass spamming their posts and posting content that might just stay on the right side of the rules but ruins their thread? Sounds like a great way to make people stop posting and the majority noise wins.
 
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Colonel_Klinck said:
So posters have to put up with people on mass spamming their posts and posting content that might just stay on the right side of the rules but ruins their thread? Sounds like a great way to make people stop posting and the majority noise wins.
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So the other side is that I just block everyone who disagrees with what I say and has evidence of why I'm wrong, then I'm free to post whatever I want without being worried about being corrected.
 
Roar87 said:
So the other side is that I just block everyone who disagrees with what I say and has evidence of why I'm wrong, then I'm free to post whatever I want without being worried about being corrected.
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Indeed it is a good point.

Perhaps if he's going to "solve" the blocking issue, then he needs to properly solve it and not just sort one problem and make another.

An idea could be to have a setting that says "don't show me replies from users that this poster has blocked.

Would mean if I follow someone, and they block a load of stupid users, those stupid users replies aren't ruining it for me too, thoogh of course I'd be free to block them too if I wanted to.

I guess an issue with that is then that it still creates echo Chambers, someone can post rubbish and not have their rubbish replied to, and in doing so, an average user may then jsut think it's correct as no one is refuting the nonsense.

So it's a messy thing all round. Perhaps it is better to stick with current method. If stephan fry doesn't want to interact with users and them to interact with his content, so his followers can enjoy his content with the least amount of faf possible, then maybe that is better.

An example why the current method is good.

Fauci posts covid updates. He gets ridiculous amount of looney toons filling up his feed. Now the million of his followers struggle to enjoy his posts because other than faucis original post, every reply to it is covid deniers. So Fauci just blocks them, and happy days, now people can enjoy what he has to say and see better quality replies.

What's so bad about that?
 
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