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Jan 20, 2022

BTW when you start seeing people with the hex avatars, don't reply, don't quote retweet, just ignore or block them. Twitter hasn't missed that a lot of users hate this. Twitter is counting on it.

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Jan 20, 2022

Twitter, like most social media, just wants engagement, and getting into a screaming match is just as good if not better than everyone getting along.

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Jan 20, 2022

Twitter understands that this is going to be unpopular but more people are going to get into angry fights with the people that use this than are going to quit Twitter altogether, so their metrics will only go up.

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Jan 20, 2022

And besides, it's cult tactics 101 that "the rest of the world is evil and hates you". Telling individual N/F/T fools that they're horrible people is only going to reinforce their beliefs and keep them in that culture.

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Jan 20, 2022

By all means, rant about how bad this shit is in general, but bullying individual people over it is likely to backfire and cause them to dig in deeper.

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Jan 20, 2022

Also handy:

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First downloadable version of the NFTBlocker plugin (Firefox only so far). Can scan a Following or Followers page on Twitter and block anyone with the beta "NFT avatar" flag. Thanks to @eramdam and @tthbaltazar for the help. See PLAN․md for future plans. github.com/mcclure/NFTBlo

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And Better Tweetdeck has "mute hexagoners" as an option: better.tw

8:59 PM · Jan 20, 2022

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Hexagoons? Hexagooners? Hexafools? There's gotta be a mean name we can call these fools.

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Jan 20, 2022

Like publicly broadcasting "I got caught in a pyramid scam and I'm paying Twitter 3$ a month to make sure everybody knows it!" isn't bad enough

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Jan 20, 2022

Remember, despite being a multi-level thing, in pyramid scams there's only two positions: 1. Evil scammers 2. Fools who are losing money

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Jan 20, 2022

Crytypocurrentseas and associated things like NTFS are textbook pyramid schemes being slightly obfuscated by the use of hard to explain technology.

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Jan 20, 2022

And by the way these two positions aren't exclusive. That's why pyramid schemes WORK. because once you realize you're a fool losing their money, the only way you might get some money back is to turn into an evil scammer for the people below you

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Jan 20, 2022

And hope you can get away before the whole thing collapses. So everyone, even the people being exploited, has a reason to continue to support the scam and to make it seem legitimate.

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Jan 20, 2022

And it's been said before, it's very difficult or even impossible to confine people of facts when not understanding those facts is making them money.

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Jan 20, 2022

So convincing people out of this scam is hard. The best bet is to try to stop them recruiting new members, by making sure more people understand its a scam

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Jan 20, 2022

Because pyramid schemes are unsustainable. They depend on new marks showing up and buying in to continue paying the existing users

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Jan 20, 2022

If that flow of new fools dries up, the whole thing collapses as the money dries up and every scammer decides now is the time to run.

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Jan 20, 2022

Unfortunately, we have a surplus of fools on hand.

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Jan 20, 2022

But eventually we'll run out. Everyone will be in the "no thanks" or "fuck you" or "already burned" or "already scamming/being scammed" camps and this will end.

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Jan 20, 2022

I've said before, I think we're already in the collapse phase. The end is coming and the scammers know it.

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Jan 20, 2022

That's why this seems to be accelerating. Countries are banning it and increasingly people know that these are scams.

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Jan 20, 2022

And if you have a bunch of Fake Gold and you know it's going to be impossible to sell it next year, what do you do? You work extra hard to sell your remaining stock NOW, before you're stuck holding the hot potato.

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Jan 20, 2022

It's gonna get worse before it gets better. And it's getting worse because it's about to get better.

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Jan 20, 2022

The end is in sight and it's a close-out sale on the scams. This is their last chance, they gotta try to make the most of it.

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Jan 20, 2022

Getting replies from people who have me blocked. That makes sense. I can't see them. The only reason you'd do that is to try to get free advertising off my thread.

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Jan 20, 2022

Well guess what? Twitter is really bad at showing replies to tweets that aren't the last in the thread.

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foone

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Jan 20, 2022

And you should never underestimate how much I can talk.

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Jan 20, 2022

And you see this? I made this thread on a PHONE. I hate phone keyboards! They make it so much slower to type. This is the "I'm not left handed either" moment for ADHD ranting: let me get to a decent keyboard and I'll type until the stars burn out.

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Jan 20, 2022

BTW the link to the NTFS blocker extension is here. I didn't realize the author had a lot of people blocked on Twitter so a bunch of people can't see my link:

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GitHub - mcclure/NFTBlocker: Browser plugin to autoblock NFT users on Twitter.

Browser plugin to autoblock NFT users on Twitter. Contribute to mcclure/NFTBlocker development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Jan 21, 2022

and FYI since this got a lot bigger than I expected... in this reply where I mention "cult tactics":

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Jan 21, 2022

I didn't mean that N/F/Ts are a cult or to diminish the dangers and harm of cults. That was just a bad comparison because I couldn't think of a better way to explain that marketing trick, and cults were the first thing that comes to mind.

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Jan 21, 2022

it's a thing that happens in a lot of (abusive) communities, where people stir up the idea that the out-group hates them, as a way to keep people in the in-group.

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Jan 21, 2022

And then when they're dicks to the outgroup and the members of the outgroup rightly respond with anger and blocking and such, the in-group members go "omg the outgroup really does hate us, good thing I have the in-group!"

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Jan 21, 2022

you see it in everything from nerdy fandoms to political movements to forums to scams to cults. but cults was the example that came to mind when I was typing that, and since I was in a hurry I didn't think to pick a better example or do a better job of qualifying it.

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Jan 21, 2022

and I just want to make it clear that I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness and danger of cults here. nor was I trying to dilute the meaning by calling the NTFS community a cult. But I didn't do a good job of phrasing it, so it might read like I was.

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