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That’s a very interesting question, and not one I have thought about before. Thank you for asking it, it has added a new dimension to my thinking and I will tel

That’s a very interesting question, and not one I have thought about before. Thank you for asking it, it has added a new dimension to my thinking and I will tell my grandchildren about your incisive inquiry. No. Do you see how you described a system based on identity, whereas this forces you to review individual comments before they’re published? There’s no way on Twitter to request the ability to reply. Edited to add the kind of fake boilerplate that seems to gush from every message on there in order to encourage acceptance.

_zzaw 4y ago
Thank you, cormacrelf. Your gratuitous, utterly unwarranted nastiness here is an excellent example of why communities like Radiopaper sound particularly appealing right now. That kind of overtly obnoxious response is generally discouraged on HN.
- cormacrelf 4y ago
  My comment was a direct illustration of the difference between Twitter’s reply-limiting system and Radiopaper’s, and one of its primary effects, which is to dress up discussion in niceties out of fear of not getting accepted. The first sentence is a direct quote from one of the threads on Radiopaper, one which seemed to be echoed in many others in their own way. It was a very light parody. I didn’t direct vitriol at anybody. And I raised a point that nobody else had. If you thought I was being sardonic and nasty towards the question about Twitter, all that went way over your head. I don’t think the over-friendliness would last as a phenomenon because frankly I got quickly bored reading replies like that, so I would expect the community to get over it and switch to trying to write good posts instead of performatively respectful ones.
beepbooptheory 4y ago
Your edit message cancels out your edits in a pretty funny way here.
_aavaa_ 4y ago
Rather than having to field and read through all of the abuse myself so that others don’t see it. How about I just not accept replies anyone but my whitelist, which I make based on their behaviour in general.

_zzaw 4y ago

Thank you, cormacrelf. Your gratuitous, utterly unwarranted nastiness here is an excellent example of why communities like Radiopaper sound particularly appealing right now. That kind of overtly obnoxious response is generally discouraged on HN.

cormacrelf 4y ago
My comment was a direct illustration of the difference between Twitter’s reply-limiting system and Radiopaper’s, and one of its primary effects, which is to dress up discussion in niceties out of fear of not getting accepted. The first sentence is a direct quote from one of the threads on Radiopaper, one which seemed to be echoed in many others in their own way. It was a very light parody. I didn’t direct vitriol at anybody. And I raised a point that nobody else had. If you thought I was being sardonic and nasty towards the question about Twitter, all that went way over your head. I don’t think the over-friendliness would last as a phenomenon because frankly I got quickly bored reading replies like that, so I would expect the community to get over it and switch to trying to write good posts instead of performatively respectful ones.

beepbooptheory 4y ago

Your edit message cancels out your edits in a pretty funny way here.

_aavaa_ 4y ago

Rather than having to field and read through all of the abuse myself so that others don’t see it. How about I just not accept replies anyone but my whitelist, which I make based on their behaviour in general.