imagine you are an executive at twitter, surveying the dystopian, tribalistic information hellscape your company more or less architected. there is an angry mob outside screaming. you think to yourself, "ok, but what if we gave the mob weapons?"
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“Truth is not measured by mass appeal”
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Is this a fat joke?
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Oh my goodness. The horse is so far out of the barn it may be impossible to ever get it back.
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Jesus fucking christ they have no idea how to solve this problem. We are in desperate need of the next generation of social media. I can't wait for Twitter to be a relic
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Something like this could work if each person had a reputation score and the disputes could be visualized by reputation types. That way it wouldn't so much be a truth vote as it would be a filter of discourse. I expect this to be a horribly gameable feature as is, though.
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Who contributes to the reputation score? Very gameable.
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