Allowing an obnoxious person to hold forth as much as they like in your discussion group means you're excluding a larger number of people who silently opt out because they are not built for that kind of social interaction.
-
-
As to the first, yeah, that's what moderators are for: to ban people who are abusing the community while still abiding by all the rules.https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1141460623244636160 …
-
As to the second, I agree, but I also think that the current unexamined assumption that social discourse (e.g. twitter) is a common space that has to meet everyone’s norms simultaneously is a dead end and we’ll take a lot of damage driving down it.
- 4 more replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.