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> it’s nearly impossible to retrofit mitigations for spam, harassment, or abuse ... why?
by tpmx 5y ago
> it’s nearly impossible to retrofit mitigations for spam, harassment, or abuse
... why?
- simonw 5y agoBecause they often represents fundamental flaws in the overall social design of your service. Twitter allows anyone to reply-to or quote-tweet anyone else, for example. That has a huge impact on how abuse works on that service. The abusive-ex persona Jacob describes is super-useful for avoiding making bad design decisions early on that end up being too hard to fix.
- SilverRed 5y agoIt seems more like these features of twitter are working as intended. I seriously doubt its because its too hard for them to block these actions.
- simonw 5y agoIt's not technically hard to change that - it's hard because the service now has millions of users who expect it to work the way it does.