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Had the exact same « owww that’s smart » instant reaction when reading that part. congratulations to the team. Edit : since the founders are reading this, i ha
by bsaul 5y ago
Had the exact same « owww that’s smart » instant reaction when reading that part. congratulations to the team.
Edit : since the founders are reading this, i had an idea once about what an anti-twitter would be like and came to this idea : no message under 1k characters. Do what you want with that idea, i give it to you.
- aloisdg 5y agoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- not2b 5y agoYou need 957 more A's. Sorry.
- dane-pgp 5y agoThen the rules would require that the text doesn't contain repetition (i.e. doesn't compress well), so people would mash random letters on the keyboard. Then the rules would require that the text contains a minimum percentage of dictionary words, so people would start copy-pasting from Wikipedia articles. Then the site would implement some sort of plagiarism detector, so people would start using GPT-3 to rewrite the articles.
- bsaul 5y agowhy would people spend that much energy if they've got basically so very little thing to say ?
- ReaLNero 5y agoInformation is not correlated with word count. It would result in messages with low signal to noise ratio that you would have to skim through.
- bsaul 5y agoi don't think people will spend the time to inflate the number of words on every short message they want to post. They'll just be lazy a post elsewhere.