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Please read my comment again. One like from your personal Twitter account on a nazi post or conspiracy theory meme means nothing. 90% likes on such content cate

by vntok 7y ago

Please read my comment again. One like from your personal Twitter account on a nazi post or conspiracy theory meme means nothing. 90% likes on such content categories from your personal account? That means a lot about you.

yowlingcat 7y ago
I understand your comment just fine the first time I read it. It's not the first time that someone's come up with such a hare-brained idea, and it's certainly not the last. If you are presuming that an account "liking" a post means that 1) the account is genuine reflection of what a person believes deep down and 2) that they are using the "like" action to indicate that they agree with the post, then you're making a lot of assumptions that are rarely true. In fact, they're so rarely true that at a certain point, Facebook added reactions because the "like" button was so noisy! The idea one can judge what someone thinks based on context-free metadata without actually talking to them, reading what they've written, or judging what they've done is hilarious. It's so fundamentally at odds with how human beings work and think (specifically with respect to satire[0] and irony) that it beggars belief. If Charlie Chaplin were alive today and acting out one of his greatest satires[1] on Twitter, a certain well known German dictator would be part of the punchline. But so too would be you, for taking it at face value. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire#Social_and_psychological_functions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire#Social_and_psychologica... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin#The_Great_Dictator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin#The_Great_Dict...
mnm1 7y ago
What if I'm using that account to bookmark posts for my research for a book on neo Nazi atrocities? Your argument is absurd. You cannot know any meaning from any number of likes. That's the absurd part. That you think that at some number, likes become meaningful in a way you can understand. That's simply not the case. We can't even know what authors of classical books were thinking, people like Plato and Aristotle with certainty, people that left us with works of thousands of words. But you pretend to be the genius who can derive meaning from a hundred tweets? The absurdity and arrogance on display here is unbelievable.

by vntok 7y ago

yowlingcat 7y ago

I understand your comment just fine the first time I read it. It's not the first time that someone's come up with such a hare-brained idea, and it's certainly not the last. If you are presuming that an account "liking" a post means that 1) the account is genuine reflection of what a person believes deep down and 2) that they are using the "like" action to indicate that they agree with the post, then you're making a lot of assumptions that are rarely true. In fact, they're so rarely true that at a certain point, Facebook added reactions because the "like" button was so noisy! The idea one can judge what someone thinks based on context-free metadata without actually talking to them, reading what they've written, or judging what they've done is hilarious. It's so fundamentally at odds with how human beings work and think (specifically with respect to satire[0] and irony) that it beggars belief. If Charlie Chaplin were alive today and acting out one of his greatest satires[1] on Twitter, a certain well known German dictator would be part of the punchline. But so too would be you, for taking it at face value. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire#Social_and_psychological_functions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire#Social_and_psychologica... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin#The_Great_Dictator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin#The_Great_Dict...

mnm1 7y ago

What if I'm using that account to bookmark posts for my research for a book on neo Nazi atrocities? Your argument is absurd. You cannot know any meaning from any number of likes. That's the absurd part. That you think that at some number, likes become meaningful in a way you can understand. That's simply not the case. We can't even know what authors of classical books were thinking, people like Plato and Aristotle with certainty, people that left us with works of thousands of words. But you pretend to be the genius who can derive meaning from a hundred tweets? The absurdity and arrogance on display here is unbelievable.