...you get an exploitable tool for fucking with people, if you own one of the big lists and can coordinate a brigade through backchannels.
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Replying to @St_Rev
really the fact that it affects people who follow the shadowbanned account is evidence it is a tool meant for punishment not spam
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Replying to @alicemazzy
I think the presumption is that the shadowbanned account must be bothering people, so you're doing them a favor.
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Replying to @St_Rev
yea but if the account is bothering people and shadowbanning only worked on non-followers, bothered followers could just unfollow
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Replying to @alicemazzy @St_Rev
since that isn't the case it seems to be purely punitive rather than effect-correcting. behavior-correcting also unlikely because...
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Replying to @alicemazzy @St_Rev
...for that to work people would need to know why they had been shadowbanned in the first place
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Replying to @alicemazzy @St_Rev
but maybe ascribing intentionality to the twitter star chamber is giving them too much credit
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Replying to @alicemazzy
Assume that 99% of the use of the system is silencing spam accounts, though.
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Replying to @St_Rev
I'm saying if that is the case disrupting usability for followers of that account doesn't serve the end
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Replying to @alicemazzy
Zuckerberg apparently described Twitter as a clown car that crashed into a gold mine.
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the wasted potential of twitter is staggering and depressing
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Replying to @alicemazzy
Do we have someplace else to go yet? The only reason I'm still here is because I don't want to miss
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