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What a great question. One of two things: A) Establish the expectation that websites "close" in the middle of the night for ~5-6 hours, local time / for each t
by YossarianFrPrez 5y ago
What a great question. One of two things:
A) Establish the expectation that websites "close" in the middle of the night for ~5-6 hours, local time / for each timezone. I don't know if would best be done via cultural influence -- giving talks, writing essays, personal communication, testifying / making inroads with politicians -- or via creating some sort of protocol. The idea is to prevent the unhealthier aspects of internet binging and screen addiction.
B) Establish the expectation that internet comments are transcriptions of voice recordings. I.e. to leave a comment, you have to call a phone number and leave a message which then gets transcribed as "the comment." In order to respond or reply to a post or a thread, you have to listen to the message and tone of voice of the person you are replying to. I don't think this would solve every internet dialogue, but it'd promote healthier interactions and less division.
In my book, the largest problems with the internet are techno-cultural, not technological.
- dentemple 5y agoRegarding A, for which timezones? Any attempt to narrow browsing time would ultimately fail as soon as the web goes global.
- YossarianFrPrez 5y agoGood question. Ideally, each user's timezone would be required information. The server would check to see if the requesting user's local time meant that the website should be "open" for them.
- bruce343434 5y agoA minute of silence for those with unusual circadian rythms.
- bmcooley 5y agoHonestly this would probably just make VPN services more widely used to workaround shutdowns.
- YossarianFrPrez 5y agoTrue, unless the timezone was tied to each user's accounts. The website doesn't have to "not work" it just has to return a page that says something to the effect of "we are closed for business."
- sithlord 5y agoSo a user couldn't just change their timezone? What if they moved? Also who is this to protect? The user? What if they work midnights or their days are backwards?
- touristtam 5y agoThere are cases where the business shouldn't promote the use of its website at odd hours (child protection, gambling addiction and other similar things).
- YossarianFrPrez 5y agoExactly
- NewNetNow 5y agoLurker here. These ideas, especially #2, sound interesting for a discord-style (when they did embedded comments only) startup.
- bruce343434 5y agoRegarding the second point, it would probably just make people say things like "you sound fat". It's still anonymous enough. In fact, people say mean things in public all the time. It seems some people are just inherently mean.
- YossarianFrPrez 5y agoI don't disagree. The main problem I'm attempting to solve is the non-anonymous case. Even discussions on social media, where people are either "friends" or have the same shared interest, still devolve into discourse where few come away satisfied. Instead, many people feel either negatively critiqued or that other posters "just don't get it." Every time this happens, the sense of group cohesion frays a little. I see this is as a problem of the medium of discussion more than anything else.
- uniqueuid 5y agoFun fact, closing websites do exist among ultra-orthodox (esp. haredi) jewish communities in Israel. You can read a bit about how it works in practice on the web. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ultraorthodox-jews-are-co_b_1580899 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ultraorthodox-jews-are-co_b_1... http://www.hareidi.org/en/index.php/Hareidi.org%27s_Kosher_Internet http://www.hareidi.org/en/index.php/Hareidi.org%27s_Kosher_I... Background: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.14318/hau7.1.016 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.14318/hau7....