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Personally, I'm glad Twitter is cleaning up these jerks but they seem to be focusing on the most visible aspects of Twitter and ignoring the rest. It's easy to
by norea-armozel 10y ago
Personally, I'm glad Twitter is cleaning up these jerks but they seem to be focusing on the most visible aspects of Twitter and ignoring the rest. It's easy to nuke an account like Milo's but it's another to nuke an account of a small time user (200 followers and the like). It's these folks who pose the biggest problem IMO because they're the ones most likely to act in a manner that is abusive on the site (barring Milo himself who seems to think he's above the ToS of any site).
So, it's basically a whitewashing act to ensure they look like they're solving a problem of abuse but in practice they ignore the 99% of abuse that actually goes on. They think if they hit that 1% the 99% will get in line. But I think the Twitter devs don't understand that they don't care. It's not as if their lives depend on Twitter. They'll just laugh and make alt accounts to continue the cycle over and over. Twitter needs a complete redesign for the abuse to be minimized or otherwise eliminated. And it wouldn't even need banning involved at least in my opinion. In some ways, I think Google had it right with G+ because it was easier to filter out people on circles than anything else. Too bad Twitter is so popular.