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Weird thing is, I think it's very reasonable to adopt a "if the forum moderator and their friends just personally don't like you, you will be banned" approach.
by empathy_m 4y ago
Weird thing is, I think it's very reasonable to adopt a "if the forum moderator and their friends just personally don't like you, you will be banned" approach.
This works fine in many smaller internet communities and it's even more or less the standard on places like SA. The capriciousness is kind of part of the fun of hanging out there.
From the point of view of running a business though -- Twitter is bleeding cash. Frankly, it's a little inefficient to staff a trust & safety team if they're just gonna be doing what the sysop says. What value does Ella Irwin's team add to the business now - can they not be completely automated and replaced?
My guess would be their team mostly exists to help EM learn to use internal tools and maybe to provide some cover for the FTC consent decree. Those don't seem like long-term reasons to staff a team.
- Terretta 4y agoAbsolutely agree with you. Non government company, should run how they like. If they want to be woke, fine. If they want to be 4chan, fine. If you want to dox prior management for good faith efforts to keep the place to a standard, then randomly ban people who are annoying you, fine. If people point at you and laugh for doing that, fine.
- philjohn 4y ago> If you want to dox prior management for good faith efforts to keep the place to a standard, then randomly ban people who are annoying you, fine. Except that has the potential to cause real world harm, so no, that's not fine.