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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 24

      Fuck's sake! I have been so relaxed & positive & productive while not on Twitter. Drawn back for an hour due to a friend being misrepresented & now I'm stressed & furious & inclined to think the vast majority of humans dishonest, stupid & unreasonable again & despair of us.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 24

      I am going away again until at least the weekend & I am going to come up with a new strategy to make Twitter a place where I can talk to my valued tweeps & have reasonable and productive conversations again w/out being deluged by people who can't or won't think & driven to rage.

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 24

      It will prob involve having 'all notifications' on for only a limited time in the morning so I can skim through people I don't follow & pick out the reasonable people engaging in good faith whether agreeing or disagreeing and keeping settings on 'only people I follow' rest of day

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 24

      It will certainly involve muting a hell of a lot of people as soon as they give unambiguous indications of being abusive, unreasonable or dishonest. I will also have to give myself permission to just ignore tweets for any reason including that they don't interest me right then.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 24

      I was fine until I got up to 10,000 followers and then it just got too much to manage especially as I tweet a lot and about things people have strong opinions about, but I kept trying to read all my notifications & respond to any which seemed sincere. That's not working.

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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 24

          I've always loved Twitter and all the connections I have on here but now, so much nit-picking & niggly objections & deliberate misunderstanding & people insisting I must respond to them on topics I got tired of discussing years ago, I'm in a constant state of stress.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 24

          Which is silly as Twitter is something I choose to do because I get a lot out of being connected to so many thoughtful and interesting people with a variety of political & ideological views & all kinds of different expertise and knowledge. I don't have to lose that.

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 24

          I just need to rethink my relationship with Twitter and make a new one on my own terms. I'm sorry, people who think you should never mute or block and should be open to all comers and answer every tweet that seems polite & sincere. I used to think the last two but too much now.

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 24

          I will work out a strategy so I can use Twitter the way I want to use it and not feel guilty about that. I will still be open to people I don't know making interesting & thoughtful comments but not 24/7 or I just get taken over by it and never get anything done & don't sleep.

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        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 24

          I know it seems silly to get stressed out by Twitter. Very first world problems. But it's not Twitter itself. It's me and feeling like I have a responsibility to engage with everything & being far too baitable that makes Twitter stressful. I must learn to be selective & to ignore

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        1. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom Apr 24
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          It doesn't work.

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        1. SadCowHat mst‏ @shadowcat_mst Apr 27
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          Also remember that if you get multiple arguments along similar lines, you only need to respond to one example, given you reply-by-RT so the other askers will see the reply anyway.

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