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It's a start. There will be ways around the mute filters by using alternative spellings, substituting in similar unicode characters, etc. There needs to be a "

by asd 10y ago

It's a start. There will be ways around the mute filters by using alternative spellings, substituting in similar unicode characters, etc. There needs to be a "quality" score for a Twitter user and an option to mute tweets from "low quality" users. Quality could be determined by utilizing an algorithm similar to Google Page Rank. Retweets, likes, and follows by "quality" users would be considered in a user's quality rank. Reports of hateful conduct would be weighted in as well. It's too bad that it has taken this long for Twitter to even -start- to address the abuse. They are lucky they have no direct competitors.

firasd 10y ago
My take on this is that, besides Twitter's general product stasis, the reason they've been conflicted on this is that the experience for new users and power users is completely different. For a new user, any response is great and Twitter wants to encourage that. For a power user, they have more than enough responses ("randos in my mentions"). I do feel that greater control over "notifications" is the obvious approach here and glad they're introducing controls like 'mute conversation'. Medium has an interesting approach with comments where you can see all comments vs. author-approved comments. Twitter probably doesn't want to make their UI complex with a lot of options but more granular control on replies (maybe even an ability to disable replies and quote tweets) would probably be useful.
slouch 10y ago
Is Klout still what it used to be? I can't tell by looking at their homepage. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/klout https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/klout
- dylz 10y ago
  At least in my circles I've never seen klout be relevant in any way other than for shady "sign in with twitter to post your score" spam
aisofteng 10y ago
>"quality" users There was a Black Mirror episode about this in season 3. Seems it was on point.

by asd 10y ago

firasd 10y ago

My take on this is that, besides Twitter's general product stasis, the reason they've been conflicted on this is that the experience for new users and power users is completely different. For a new user, any response is great and Twitter wants to encourage that. For a power user, they have more than enough responses ("randos in my mentions"). I do feel that greater control over "notifications" is the obvious approach here and glad they're introducing controls like 'mute conversation'. Medium has an interesting approach with comments where you can see all comments vs. author-approved comments. Twitter probably doesn't want to make their UI complex with a lot of options but more granular control on replies (maybe even an ability to disable replies and quote tweets) would probably be useful.

slouch 10y ago

Is Klout still what it used to be? I can't tell by looking at their homepage. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/klout https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/klout

dylz 10y ago
At least in my circles I've never seen klout be relevant in any way other than for shady "sign in with twitter to post your score" spam

aisofteng 10y ago

>"quality" users There was a Black Mirror episode about this in season 3. Seems it was on point.