What's the function of "liking" in twitter discourse? Is it for arguments you agree with? For appreciating people for interacting with you? For acknowledging a high quality contribution, irrespective of whether you agree with the point? To show moral support for tribe members?
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Replying to @June_beetle
Function is whatever people want it to be. I use it as special bookmarks. Friend uses it as a "Seen" button. (Which is great for recurrent engagement.) Others use it as endorsement.
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Replying to @rezzealaux
But this is precisely why I want to clarify it. It's like we are all saying the same word to each other but in each of our minds it means a different thing.
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Replying to @rezzealaux
Something that feels different between words and the like button: words are shared between people in different contexts so that a group can quickly converge on a shared meaning for the word. The like button doesn't have enough context for such convergence to occur.
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Replying to @June_beetle @rezzealaux
I had some insight. It's ok for the like button, to be ambiguous between different people. The problem is that there's no effective way for people in a twitter tribe to signal that "like button means this in our tribe", besides my crude method of explicitly asking everybody.
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Replying to @June_beetle
In the end the pinch emoji which was going to be about mocking small pp ends up being something something neo-nazi and OK hand means this and clown means that... I should stop commenting. I shouldn't wander into a political discussion to say "politics is dum and ur dum".
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Replying to @rezzealaux
I think innocuous symbols acquiring taboo meanings is really interesting.
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Replying to @June_beetle
I don't. Once I figured out keeping up with it had a cost it immediately became too high. The sustainable strat seems to be "purple prose". It puts you in people's ingroup or fargroup (
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Replying to @rezzealaux @eigenrobot
What is purple prose? Does it just mean to write in a way that confuses or obsfucates except to those in the ingroup?
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(I see what rezza's getting at but I believe purple prose usually refers to overwrought writing (??))
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Replying to @eigenrobot @June_beetle
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