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The only solution I can think of is smarter algorithms that hide negativity and other unwanted comments. Yes you could limit replies, but that doesn't solve the
by Ciantic 2y ago
The only solution I can think of is smarter algorithms that hide negativity and other unwanted comments. Yes you could limit replies, but that doesn't solve the problem for big accounts, their followers have all kinds of unhinged people who like to ask trivial questions and waste your time.
Some think that by changing a service they can get better replies, but there will be no single service that has "sane commenters". This shouldn't be surprising, I saw in Threads complaints that replies had "Facebook vibe", or a common complaint about Mastodon that there were too many geeky reply-guys.
Services should have good filtering in place. A lot of big accounts don't have time to read replies, and they probably shouldn't for their own sanity, but they probably want to see replies from people they follow, i.e. their peers.
- BadBadJellyBean 2y agoFiltering is always a two edged sword. On the one hand it might keep bad actors at bay on the other it can keep innocent people away. It is putting power in the hands of a machine. Another thing is that bad actors are usually more determined to subvert blocking than good actors are to correct false negatives. It might help some people to have some automatic filtering in place but it also might not.