Trying to understand why ppl who hate Twitter for being full of jerks don’t just curate their feed. Ideas: 1. They don’t know it’s ok to block jerks 2. They don’t know how to find good non-jerks to follow 3. They don’t really hate Twitter, it’s just fun to complain 4. Inertia ?
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An interesting normative thing: collectively, we've decided eating candy is bad, or should at least be done very minimally. But collective norms still seem to be that following jerks on Twitter is the right thing to do. (I mean effective norms, not quite literal norms, IYGMD)
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There does seem to be a need for a "Stop following jerks, stop responding to jerks" counter movement. "Don't like Twitter? Complain about it? Then stop following jerks & low signal accounts, & stop responding to them."
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6. It turns most people have inner jerks and twitter is the perfect place to express that 7. Twitter rewards jerks and these incentives matter (see 5 above)
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8. Interesting people can be jerks and interesting-ness is non-fungible
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