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I suppose the charitable argument for banning would be: it pollutes Twitter without extending any conversations or bringing anybody joy per se. Basically it's s

I suppose the charitable argument for banning would be: it pollutes Twitter without extending any conversations or bringing anybody joy per se. Basically it's spam. Certainly on HN that person would/should be banned right away (which is part of the reason HN is the best place on the internet). But Twitter is a different animal. So are Reddit and 4Chan. Sarcastic copypasta is par for the course.

f1refly 5y ago
> it pollutes Twitter without extending any conversations or bringing anybody joy per se. Basically it's spam. Looking from the outside, this is an accurate description of 99,99% of all messages ever written on twitter. Arguably, the copy pasted text can at least bring a bit of joy which other tweets also fail at.