Whilst I've taken breaks, indeed quit social media years ago it does somewhat pain me that many services needed are accesable via such platforms and you can sen

Whilst I've taken breaks, indeed quit social media years ago it does somewhat pain me that many services needed are accesable via such platforms and you can send a tweet to the local council all public and they will respond. Send an email - maybe, eventualy, though often not as gets bounced about and phone calls, well they embraced work from home as given my local council opertunity to sell the crown jewls (aka historic building they base out of). So it sadly does seem somewhat a neccesary evil. FOr me social media needs the ability to censor and filter placed into the hands of the user and let them decide what offends them or not and give them to tools to filter that for their own comfort. Sadly that is kinda lacking and you get the social media's flavout of censoring, which can be biased to the stage of fueling issues. One question though - has anybody ever taken a break from Hacker News due to content? Me - nope, and doubt many if any who have been that way due to content/engagements. The level of docurum and interactions upon this social media format does attract and enforce a more civil and factual level of discourse that trancends anything your twitters or facebooks etc offer. So thank you once again Dang for keeping things real.