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I'm very much convinced that one should never admit a mistake on social media after a dogpile. I think there is too much bad faith for a Mea Culpa option to eve
by meowfly 6y ago
I'm very much convinced that one should never admit a mistake on social media after a dogpile. I think there is too much bad faith for a Mea Culpa option to even work. Apologies work well in smaller circles because an apology implies a correction in behavior that's necessary for those around you to trust you again.
In social media people are signalling they don't like your behavior but they don't actually care about you individually.
If Twitter really wants to fix this they should make it against the rules to screenshot or share deleted tweets. It will be much harder to dogpile after someone deletes their tweet if people can't just keep resharing the offending tweet for likes.
- watwut 6y agoApology in personal contact does not imply correction. It is just about closing conflict so we can continue working together.
- bt4u3 6y agoDogpile is a great word as it works much like animals. Any sign of weakness is a trigger for them to go for the kill. Apologies are seen as a weakness, they've managed to get through to you and now they want more. The long term effect of teaching people never to apologize for anything is gonna be sad
- dcow 6y agoI don't see how the stance that you should never admit a mistake after a mob dog pile means the feature described here would never work. There are plenty of cases where people just straight up make real mistakes and don't feel pressured to apologize out of desire to appease the mob but rather simply have aggregated additional input, and reassessed their original statement in light of new information, and decided it needs correction.