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If they'll single out political leaders and give them special protection from being blocked, the leaders should lose their ability to block others. Twitter is a
by PascLeRasc 9y ago
If they'll single out political leaders and give them special protection from being blocked, the leaders should lose their ability to block others. Twitter is admitting that they are a "town hall" here and they need to let everyone speak their mind to their politicians.
- maxerickson 9y agoCelebrities aren't using twitter in a way that they read replies so it only matters in a box checking sort of way.
- kylnew 9y agodoesn't blocking someone on twitter also block others from seeing the replies too? If so, it's a lot more impactful than that
- maxerickson 9y agoThat's a good point, the block stops them from replying altogether (or quote tweeting).
- Grue3 9y agoI think the fundamental property of a block feature should be complete undetectability that the user has been blocked by the user in question. For example Usenet killfile: you never know if you're in somebody's killfile unless they tell you so. Twitter's block function obviously fails this test, which makes it completely useless: once you realize you're blocked, just create another account to continue harassing the user who blocked you.
- maxerickson 9y agoMute does that.
- Grue3 9y agoSo you're saying Twitter already has a block function that actually works? Then it's all the more baffling they also have one that doesn't work, and yet is somehow more well known.
- maxerickson 9y agoThey have 2 different functions with different names that do different things. They call the method of blocking you prefer "mute".
- Grue3 9y agoMy point is that "mute" is strictly better than "block", so there's no reason to have "block" in the first place. Even if somebody likes the misfeature of the blockee knowing they're blocked, you can always tweet "I just muted @theannoyingperson", so that @theannoyingperson knows they're muted.