In a world of bots and sock-puppets, it feels pretty far from a town square example already. If you acknowledge that you won't ever be able to stay ahead of bot

In a world of bots and sock-puppets, it feels pretty far from a town square example already. If you acknowledge that you won't ever be able to stay ahead of bot and sock-puppet detection enough to remove it from the platform (and no one seems to think that's a winnable contest for the platform)), you're left with letting that drown out the town square, or to deemphasize it's worst impacts and maybe also impact some of your most negative and hateful users too. But maybe this just shows why Elon shouldn't have used the town square analogy before, it doesn't fit well with what actually exists and causes people to believe it should work in ways it can't (without the equivalent of letting someone bring a microphone and loud speakers to drown out the rest of the town square).