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The digital "tut" is perhaps a inter-social-media protocol we could create. Like a downvote, it indicates disapproval and starts trying to, as this article per
by lifeisstillgood 6y ago
The digital "tut" is perhaps a inter-social-media protocol we could create.
Like a downvote, it indicates disapproval and starts trying to, as this article persuasively says, move social nuance online.
Twitter, Facebook et al could all have this alongside a like button, on a RESTful interface so it's agnostic about the client.
Many, many years ago I stumbled across a web page hosted on a white supremacist site but was third in google's ranking for Martin Luther King search term. It struck me then that what would be useful was not for me to link to that site (hence adding to its pagerank) but to link to that site with an href attribute that indicated something was wrong about the facts presented.
I think overall this is the same problem of short selling - and it's not clear how to fix it.
- chillacy 6y agoHumans seem to have evolved to live in small-ish societies where being given the "cold shoulder" or being ostracized was a great danger. I'm always mixed though whether abandoning that is good or bad. On the one hand in liberal societies we're more free to express ourselves than ever, love whomever, etc. On the other hand, it does seem like anyone can find a subculture for whatever they believe in, even if it's destructive.
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- pferde 6y agoWell, Usenet has its own version of "tut": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk_(Usenet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk_(Usenet)