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I started blocking blue checks on sight a couple days ago and it has significantly increased the overall quality of the Twitter experience. I’ve found that I e

I started blocking blue checks on sight a couple days ago and it has significantly increased the overall quality of the Twitter experience. I’ve found that I end up blocking accounts that I would have otherwise (weird culture warrior nonsense, low-quality Facebook meme reposts, an astounding number of people claiming that everyone spends $8/day on coffee etc.) and the check mark just makes them stand out visually along with putting their posts at the top of threads. Heck, until they disabled it there was even an entire tab of folks to block in my notifications section. Kudos!

swyx 3y ago
being proud of having an endless stream of people to block when your blocking action has no meaningful difference to the new people that will take their place, and feeling that it has a "significant" impact... is probably exhibiting one of the known cognitive biases, i'm just not sure which (Ikea effect?)
- cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
  Who are you talking about?
- anonymousab 3y ago
  > when your blocking action has no meaningful difference to the new people that will take their place The rate of new users who don't subscribe to twitter blue will likely remain a much higher fraction than those that do, so if blocking them improves the experience, then rigging up an automatic block seems like a fairly low effort way to tidy things up. Naturally, you'll end up blocking a large amount of cryptobro posters due to the obvious overlap with Elon's supporter audience, which may be beneficial or detrimental depending on what communities you prefer. You can also simply hide all bluecheck posts with a ublock filter or a userscript, but that's more of a blunt hammer solution, and a bit janky depending on how new tweet loading and infinite scroll is working that day.
- rsynnott 3y ago
  Having a very simple heuristic to block annoying people is a convenience, I would’ve thought. I’ve given up on Twitter myself, but I expect I’d do this if I was still on it; you don’t want those people in your replies.

swyx 3y ago

being proud of having an endless stream of people to block when your blocking action has no meaningful difference to the new people that will take their place, and feeling that it has a "significant" impact... is probably exhibiting one of the known cognitive biases, i'm just not sure which (Ikea effect?)

cogitoergofutuo 3y ago
Who are you talking about?
anonymousab 3y ago
> when your blocking action has no meaningful difference to the new people that will take their place The rate of new users who don't subscribe to twitter blue will likely remain a much higher fraction than those that do, so if blocking them improves the experience, then rigging up an automatic block seems like a fairly low effort way to tidy things up. Naturally, you'll end up blocking a large amount of cryptobro posters due to the obvious overlap with Elon's supporter audience, which may be beneficial or detrimental depending on what communities you prefer. You can also simply hide all bluecheck posts with a ublock filter or a userscript, but that's more of a blunt hammer solution, and a bit janky depending on how new tweet loading and infinite scroll is working that day.
rsynnott 3y ago
Having a very simple heuristic to block annoying people is a convenience, I would’ve thought. I’ve given up on Twitter myself, but I expect I’d do this if I was still on it; you don’t want those people in your replies.