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IM and SMS aren't public forums where people you don't know can barge in with their own take on what you just wrote, though. IRC can be, but it would be very di
by netruk44 4y ago
IM and SMS aren't public forums where people you don't know can barge in with their own take on what you just wrote, though. IRC can be, but it would be very difficult to have a grasp on every IRC conversation happening everywhere so you could respond to something you find incredulous.
Unlike Twitter, which incentivizes people carrying on infinite numbers of asynchronous conversations, and encourages people to find them by bringing up 'interesting' ones on the timeline.
- WorldMaker 4y agoI think you've found the real problems, none of which are "short form" messaging: I agree with you that there's an aggression to a public forum where message can be commented on by everyone and every past message is "fair game" for "fresh" conversation. Those do seem to lead to plenty of aggression. In the heyday of blogs, long form posts weren't immune to those effects either and that's why blogs invented things like spam checks and comment lockdowns and comment moderation tools.