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The blue checkmark is the main cause of this, or rather, the fact that it automatically boosts your comment over those who don't have one. This led to the curre

The blue checkmark is the main cause of this, or rather, the fact that it automatically boosts your comment over those who don't have one. This led to the current engagement farming meta, where none of the comments are about the OP itself (save for smaller accounts and even then.) EDIT: Sometimes I find myself holding the spacebar, doom scrolling to reach the "peasant" comments, because at least they're actual comments.

Freedom2 3y ago
I remember when a large portion of Hacker News commenters were praising the blue check changes. Comments such as: > Fewer bots, less brigading, ideally no ads, less spam, etc. > I am actually quite optimistic. Let the best ideas win. The blue check elitism is coming to an end. > Given twitters known bot problem, the number of bluechecks will likely be muuuuch lower as real people start to pay for them, and the real people behind the identities have to pay for them instead of their PR staff running them, but this in turn will make them more valuable and meaningful.
- johneth 3y ago
  It's interesting how often the prevailing sentiment of Hacker News commenters ends up being wrong (or misjudged).
  - xref 3y ago
    There’s a general contrarian-for-contrarians-sake streak among us here, and prevailing sentiment outside HN was that the changes were terrible
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insin 3y ago
Control Panel for Twitter [1] can automatically hide boosted blue replies for you …although if an account is big enough, you're safer looking at the Quote Tweets instead for actual comments (it also restores the old direct link to those in the focused Tweet), e.g. you're lucky to get more than a handful of non-blue replies under an Elon Musk tweet among the engagement farmers before you hit the maximum number of replies Twitter will load [1] https://jbscript.dev/control-panel-for-twitter https://jbscript.dev/control-panel-for-twitter

Freedom2 3y ago

I remember when a large portion of Hacker News commenters were praising the blue check changes. Comments such as: > Fewer bots, less brigading, ideally no ads, less spam, etc. > I am actually quite optimistic. Let the best ideas win. The blue check elitism is coming to an end. > Given twitters known bot problem, the number of bluechecks will likely be muuuuch lower as real people start to pay for them, and the real people behind the identities have to pay for them instead of their PR staff running them, but this in turn will make them more valuable and meaningful.

johneth 3y ago
It's interesting how often the prevailing sentiment of Hacker News commenters ends up being wrong (or misjudged).
- xref 3y ago
  There’s a general contrarian-for-contrarians-sake streak among us here, and prevailing sentiment outside HN was that the changes were terrible
  - deleted 3y ago
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insin 3y ago

Control Panel for Twitter [1] can automatically hide boosted blue replies for you …although if an account is big enough, you're safer looking at the Quote Tweets instead for actual comments (it also restores the old direct link to those in the focused Tweet), e.g. you're lucky to get more than a handful of non-blue replies under an Elon Musk tweet among the engagement farmers before you hit the maximum number of replies Twitter will load [1] https://jbscript.dev/control-panel-for-twitter https://jbscript.dev/control-panel-for-twitter