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From the footnotes: Imagine a "ಠ_ಠ" button on each tweet. The poster finds out how many people THAT THEY FOLLOW* clicked that button, but can't find out specif
by egypturnash 5y ago
From the footnotes:
Imagine a "ಠ_ಠ" button on each tweet. The poster finds out how many people THAT THEY FOLLOW* clicked that button, but can't find out specifically who. They just know that the crowd of people that they respect has a certain air of disapproval.*
I love this. This is so much more interesting than a downvote, which could easily come from someone you're disagreeing with or people who share their views. This is your friends giving you the hairy eyeball. I want this.
- whatshisface 5y agoLet's say you're a Nazi and all your friends are too. Then you start wondering if Lebensraum is all that important, but your friends all click ಠ_ಠ: demonstrating why mechanisms that enforce conformity do not enforce correctness or virtue.
- pcl 5y agoI don’t think that the author’s suggestion was meant to enforce correctness or virtue, but rather to provide a means for your friends to nudge you out of extreme behaviors. Now, if one’s friends have opinions that the rest of us find to be terrible, then maybe it’d be better for that person to be able to drift away easier. But I think the thesis here is that most of us aren’t at the extremes / aren’t in bubbles mostly comprised of extremists, and a private-hairy-eyeball would perhaps help many of us from radicalizing our dialogue.