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My general feeling when it comes to questions about harassment on Twitter is that people look at it too much as a policy issue ("you're not banning and deleting
by firasd 9y ago
My general feeling when it comes to questions about harassment on Twitter is that people look at it too much as a policy issue ("you're not banning and deleting enough accounts according to my ideological stance"), which has its place, but there's a lot of product aspects that make it such a shouty place.
A good example is the way the 'quote tweet' feature is often used to start a pile-on. It's not a bad feature in itself, but there is a significant portion of usage that lends itself to starting food fights. Could things be improved by, for example, a setting that limits quote-tweets to people who follow you? There's a lot of dynamics like that which can be explored.
- kenning 9y agoThat's a cool idea, if you really want to quote-tweet someone you can follow them, do it and then unfollow them, so you're not limiting behavior really, but it would still reduce the number of times it happened. However I think twitter used to have a lot of weird secret features like how DM's could accidentally become public if you formatted them wrong, and another secret rule to twitter could be a bad idea.
- philwelch 9y agoJeff Vogel: > Twitter was designed, from Day 1, to enable any random person to send messages directly to any public figure. In other words, from Day 1, it was designed to be an abuse and harassment engine. It's not a bug. It's a feature. All that abuse and controversy is how it gets clicks and money. http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-i-deal-with-harassment-abuse-and.html http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-i-deal-with-haras... Twitter's feature set is perfectly optimized for harassment and abuse. Changing it to prevent harassment and abuse would kill the product.