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To add: I find the "Twitter makes it hard" remarks a total cop-out in this instance. One is responsible for ones conduct whether it's via Twitter, in person, or
by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
To add: I find the "Twitter makes it hard" remarks a total cop-out in this instance. One is responsible for ones conduct whether it's via Twitter, in person, or a series of smoke signals. Am I supposed to believe that a character limit is in some way an excuse for being an arsehole? Those tweets lacked _any_ attempt at nuance so to respond by saying "oh it's hard to express myself accurately with only n characters and this time I came off as a prick" is just utterly ridiculous.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoThere is that, but the systemic issue holds too : my rule of thumb is that if you use Twitter, then you are an an angry asshole or idiot (until proven otherwise).
- robertlagrant 4y agoThat's not a systemic issue. That's your personal stereotype.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoWhy not both ? Consider for instance 4chan...
- maverwa 4y agoOh for sure. Twitter is stil just "a tool". It might not be the right tool for a discussion, but if you choose it for such, its not the tools fault. And to be fair, "its twitters fault" is also not what Klabnik claims (as far as I can gather from his blog post).
- throwaway_au_1 4y agoYou may be right but I took this quote of Klabnik's to essentially be him offloading some of the blame to the tool - just my interpretation. "Twitter makes it so hard not to accidentally be an asshole."