Twitter Says It Will Let All Users Hide Replies To Tweets (bloomberg.com) 49
Twitter said it will start letting all users hide replies to the tweets they send, an effort to improve the health of discussions and interactions on the service. From a report: The company has been testing the feature since summer in different markets, including the U.S. and Japan, but is now rolling it out globally. The tool lets users hide specific comments made on their posts, meaning those comments won't be visible to other users unless they click a button to reveal them. The change provides a degree of control that could be used to keep spammers away, or to hide hateful or inappropriate replies.
A proposition (Score:1)
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And your sarcasm is feeble. I think we can call it even.
Good thing Slashdot doesn't let users hide comments. I would never be seen again.
Hey, Slashdot could charge to hide/delete comments. Talk about a revenue enhancer. People could be paid to troll from fake accounts, ensnaring those who miss the point, take the bait and feed the 'priggy bank'.
Oh, wait... nevermind.
Taking the 'Social' out of Social Media (Score:5, Insightful)
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The good censor approves.
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Well I guess this was inevitable since your typical bluecheckmark/influencer has no interest in discussion and just wants to give one way lectures.
I think there are definitely many bluechecks that fit this category - they see it as a pulpit from which they can deliver one-way sermons and basically ignore the feedback.
But I think part of the problem is the sheer volume of replies they receive are, from a practical level, totally unmanageable. I barely use Twitter at all and on several of the very rare occasions where I reply into a thread, I have gotten a stack of replies, some interesting, some not.
I cannot imagine being a major Twitter presence and
I see (Score:2)
So Trump will be able to 'hide' the nasty-sayers who mock him but not 'block' them?
Will that prevent the next heart attack?
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If Trump is a "one-way user who isn't interested in what others have to say," then why did he block those people who sued him? It's because he does read comments and cares... to some extent.
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The courts ruled he can't block anyone
I have no idea why you think he is all that concerned about this.
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I don't see why you think this will change his behavior in any way.
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The problem with that is that they'd actually have to enforce their policies, as written, on accounts like a certain faketan-and-bleach-blonded delinquent male.
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The neo-nazis have already been banned. The only abusive Twitter users left are the radical leftists and Marxists.
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If you believe that, I have some oceanfront property in Kansas to sell you. You can move from your current trailer park.
You should go back to Twitter with these abusive personal attacks, Marxist.
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"Marxist" is your insult of choice? Yeah. You're just some alt-right cross burner with delusions of humanity.
Who said it was an insult?
I'm just telling the truth. You're the one making up lies.
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People say Trump is a bad businessman but they let him live in their head rent-free. What a deal!
Uh huh. (Score:4, Insightful)
Or it could be used to squelch everybody who disagrees with you. Gee, I wonder what use we'll see the most of...
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EXACTLY this. Sure it was created to allow the user to control *inappropriate* or *hateful* comments, but I guarantee the vast majority will be used to hide corrections and disagreements, and that will just allow more disinformation to get out there.
Someone has countered your flat-earth argument with actual facts and data? Hide their reply! Don't like people explaining why not vaccinating your kids is bad? Hide their reply!
Just kidding, I'm sure this won't be abused in any way whatsoever.
Re: Uh huh. (Score:2)
How about you do whatever you did before the internet, like stand outside their house and yell at them, or mail them tons of annoying letters. Or not, Christ.
Maybe you don't really NEED a way to get in someone's face every time they're wrong. We have town halls where you can do that, for important things, like hiring a dog catcher, building speed bumps, or where to move that annoying flashing sign that goes off when someone drives five over the limit.
You can speak your counterpoints just fine without bein
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like stand outside their house and yell at them, or mail them tons of annoying letters.
Were you not around before the Internet? We stood outside their houses and egged them, and mailed them letters with anthrax powder. In the winter, you could even get an anthrax-coated frozen egg to smash through someone's bedroom window.
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Omg can you imagine how different the internet today would be BBS, Usenet, AOL, CompuServe, IRC, etc. had all been moderated, think of all the terrible squelching of opinions that would have taken place.
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Yep. It'll be used by Liberals to hide Conservative responses, and by Conservatives to hide any well-reasoned Liberal response so everyone sees nutjob left-wing responses that don't hold up to scrutiny.
Maybe all the right-wingers will stop blocking me when they lose arguments now.
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Posts like this crack me up. It's like people are outraged, outraged I tell you, that if a supreme court vacancy comes up that the Republicans would definitely nominate someone despite having previously claimed that you shouldn't do so in an election year.
Seriously, how naive do you have to be at this point to not see we're past being "fair", it's a bare knuckle fight at this point. Of course Republicans are hypocritical, it's about convincing their base not about winning over liberals. And vice-versa.
So ye
Except Trump. (Score:2)
and other politicians! :)
Into the void (Score:3)
A social media platform without any interaction.. sounds... nice?
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Ratio'd (Score:2)
This will be interesting to see.
People that make idiotic comments on Twitter tend to get "ratio'd" (They have far more comments than likes, comments that show the idiocy of the comment and/or excoriate the commentor). So I guess now these folks can just hide the fact that most of Twitter views them as an idiot.
It will help the blue-checked users a lot. (Getting a blue check on Twitter is no longer a verification of your identity: It's now an endorsement by Twitter of you and your views).
Controlling the Narrative (Score:3)
that is what is driving these actions. "We" are losing control over the narrative. Trump was elected because we lost control. We need to regain control. Therefore the alternative narratives are bad. They are "Putin" or "fringe" or "conspiracy" and it is just to suppress them.
Remedying low-quality dialog (Score:1)
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Many comments mechanisms to mainstream articles are being closed down partially or completely with the argument that they are low quality. This is a partial truth. The other part is it is eliminating a form of public feedback to what you are publishing.
It is a consequence of the realization that you're losing control of the narrative.
Will be used to hide inconvenient facts (Score:1)
*Correction (Score:1)
"The change provides a degree of control that could be used to keep spammers away, or to hide hateful or inappropriate replies" [or to censor all opposing opinions.]