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Bloomberg Opinion writer. Elected "top neoliberal shill" of 2018. Occasionally posts anime gifs.

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    Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 21

    Noah Smith Retweeted The Atlantic

    Interesting story. Can a social network intentionally create a friendly, welcoming environment when the world is full of complete assholes?https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1053874724135206912 …

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    The AtlanticVerified account @TheAtlantic
    Instagram has cast itself as the internet’s kindest place—but harassment on the platform is rampant, and getting worse, @TaylorLorenz reports http://on.theatln.tc/nHDTHdx 
    12:26 AM - 21 Oct 2018
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      2. jeffrey bates‏ @hemos Oct 21
        Replying to @Noahpinion

        It is amazing to me how few persistent trolls you need to do this. Slashdot peak readers was roughly 2M per day, 10M per month. I would guess the hard core troll pop was 50-60 people.

        2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      3. Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda‏ @cmdrtaco Oct 21
        Replying to @hemos @Noahpinion

        Probably even smaller number in any given year... they came and went. Mostly.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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      5. Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda‏ @cmdrtaco Oct 21
        Replying to @jamiemccarthy @hemos @Noahpinion

        I’m not sure it ends differently. The tumors came back no matter what we did, always hungering for the toxic fan boys applause. There was a lots of cool ideas to try if it wasn’t for all the EVERYTHING ELSE we had to do with no resources.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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      7. Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda‏ @cmdrtaco Oct 21
        Replying to @jamiemccarthy @hemos @Noahpinion

        It took me many years to realize that running a site at our scale with only like 5 technical people was not normal.

        5 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      8. David Bernick‏ @dbernick Oct 22
        Replying to @cmdrtaco @jamiemccarthy and

        Something something Martin something something.

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      2.  🔰-  🗝 Blue  🗝-  🦀‏ @BlueRepublik Oct 21
        Replying to @Noahpinion

        you've never been to pornhub, have you?

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3.  🔰-  🗝 Blue  🗝-  🦀‏ @BlueRepublik Oct 21
        Replying to @BlueRepublik @Noahpinion

        this is a good tweet i'm happy with the quality of this tweet

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      4. Apropos of Something‏ @gamespotting Oct 21
        Replying to @BlueRepublik

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      5. Apropos of Something‏ @gamespotting Oct 21
        Replying to @gamespotting @BlueRepublik @Noahpinion

        Do Millennials recall much of the internet before ~'98? (I kinda ignored them and whatever they were all doing back then..)

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. John Gordon‏ @jgordonshare Oct 21
        Replying to @gamespotting @BlueRepublik @Noahpinion

        Usenet was getting bad, but it wasn’t click funded so it was less Troll friendly.

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      7. Apropos of Something‏ @gamespotting Oct 21
        Replying to @jgordonshare @BlueRepublik @Noahpinion

        Usenet seemed to be primarily funded by universities and large research/commercial orgs (though so did most of the internet back then). It wasn't troll friendly but neither did it seem troll-hostile; they were just a fact of the internet and being on it.

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      8. Apropos of Something‏ @gamespotting Oct 21
        Replying to @gamespotting @jgordonshare and

        Although, I also more associate the phenomenon of trolling with more of the '98 - '04 period (and again in recent years, as it seems like people started discovering them all over again for the first time).

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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      1. Raymond Waterman‏ @RayWaterman Oct 21
        Replying to @Noahpinion

        Tragedy of the commons type situation. Most people behave reasonably, but it only takes a small number to wreck the landscape.

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      1. Jeff Jarvis‏Verified account @jeffjarvis Oct 21
        Replying to @Noahpinion

        It's not about the world being full of assholes but about there being just enough assholes to ruin things -- that is what the platforms need to engineer against. E.g., not every business spams but enough spam to mess up email.

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      1. Nick 'New Moon' Felker @ Bay Area‏ @HandNF Oct 21
        Replying to @Noahpinion

        I think good social networks can exist, just not in public. Small, invitational networks are of a much higher quality as the social costs are much higher and you have better control over who is allowed to join.

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      1. Lei Gong‏ @gonglei89 Oct 21
        Replying to @Noahpinion

        Only if you do what we do in the real world, which is sanction and police the assholes.

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      1. Andrea Kuszewski  🧠‏Verified account @AndreaKuszewski Oct 21
        Replying to @Noahpinion

        Nope

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