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Here's a radical idea: let me moderate my own shit! Twitter is a subscription-based system (by this, I mean that I have to subscribe to someone's content) so i
by ItsBob 4y ago
Here's a radical idea: let me moderate my own shit!
Twitter is a subscription-based system (by this, I mean that I have to subscribe to someone's content) so if I subscribe to someone and don't like what they say then buh-bye!
Let me right click on a comment/tweet (I don't use social media so not sure of the exact terminology the kids use these days) with the options of:
- Hide this comment
- Hide all comments in this thread from <name>
- Block all comments in future from <name> (you can undo this in settings).
That would work for me.
- threeseed 4y agoYou're not Twitter's customer. Advertisers are. And they don't want their brands to be associated with unpleasant content.
- tick_tock_tick 4y agoMost customers don't care the only reason it's a real issue is Twitter users run the marketing department at a lot of companies and they are incorrectly convinced people care.
- spaced-out 4y ago>Most customers don't care How much is "most"? What data do you have? Plus, even if ~20% of customers care and only half will boycott, that's still going to have an impact on the company's bottom line.
- threeseed 4y ago> Twitter users run the marketing department If that were the case why is Twitter ad spend in the low single digits for most companies.
- Spivak 4y agoLike I can't believe that this reasoning doesn't resonate with people even outside of advertisers. Who wants to be on a social network where if one of your posts breaks containment you spend the next few weeks getting harassed by people who just hurl slurs and insults at you. This is already right now a problem on Twitter and opening the floodgates is the opposite of helping.
- etchalon 4y agoThis reasoning is generally lost on people whom are generally not a target for slurs and harassment.
- jsemrau 4y agoWell, my experience is that I post something or reply to someone that I don't get any feedback, so how could I ?
- tick_tock_tick 4y ago> few weeks getting harassed by people who just hurl slurs and insults at you Just ignore it or block them. The only time it's an issue is when you engage. Seriously the only people with this issue can't let shit go.
- fzeroracer 4y agoI feel like you don't understand the issue here at all. Blocking them requires first engaging with their content. This is what people always miss in the discussion. To know if you need to block someone or not involves parsing their comment and then throwing it in the bin. The same goes for ignoring it. And eventually people get tired of the barrage of slurs and just leave because the brainpower required to sift through garbage isn't worth it anymore. That's how you end up with places like Voat.
- lettergram 4y agoPeople producing products don’t actually care. I’d love to see stats on this made public (I’ve seen internal metrics). Facebook and Twitter don’t even show you what your ad is near. You fundamentally just have to “trust” them. If you have a billboard with someone being raped beneath it and a photo goes viral, no one would blame the company advertising on the billboard. Frankly, no one will associate the two to change their purchasing habits. The reason corporations care are the ESG scores and activist employees. Also these brands still advertise in places where public executions will happen (Saudi Arabia). No one is complaining there.
- pfisch 4y agoPeople do care. If you openly associate your brand with strong support for a pro pedophile or pro rape position customers will care about that. The idea that they won't seems pretty ridiculous.
- threeseed 4y ago> Facebook and Twitter don’t even show you what your ad is near But their customers complain about it, media picks it up and it becomes an outrage story. That's what brands are scared of.
- lettergram 4y agoHow many people complained about ads being next to BLM stuff - particularly in the NFL and NBA? A LOT, but nothing happened. It’s not about customers complaining.
- q1w2 4y agoTo quote the article... > MAYBE sometimes an advertiser will get mad, but a backroom sales conversation will usually get them back once the whole thing blows over.
- pjc50 4y ago> - Block all comments in future from <name> (you can undo this in settings). This is what the existing block feature does?
- dbbk 4y agoThis exists.
- spaced-out 4y agoMaybe you might like that, but I personally don't want to wade through dozens of "MAKE BIG $$$$ WORKING FROM HOME!!!" every morning on my feed.
- int_19h 4y agoThis is solved by allowing people to "hire" others as their moderators.
- tedunangst 4y agoWhy can't I "hire" (join) a social network that preemptively mods according to my preferences?
- AceJohnny2 4y agoYou've never been targeted for harassment, obviously. Blocking a comment, or even blocking a user for a comment is useless on platforms that allow free and endless user accounts. Mail spam/scam folders of everyone's email accounts are proof that "let me moderate it myself" does not work for the majority of people. And remember "It is harder to police bad behavior than it is to automate it."
- commandlinefan 4y ago> let me moderate it myself More like "let us moderate it ourselves". Reddit users already do this - there are extensions you can install that allow you to subscribe to another group of user's ban list. So you find a "hivemind" that you mostly agree with, join their collective moderation, and allow that to customize the content you like. The beauty is that you get to pick the group you find most reasonable.
- AhmedF 4y agoTry moderating 100+ hateful messages an hour.