I got it shorter but still longish: I think part of the problem comes from the nature of attention being limited compounding with a rich get richer effect. In the less connected days, people didn't have to compete across the entire world so attention wasn't as thinly spread.
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @o_guest and
Twitter is also different from Facebook in that the network isn't grounded by real world relations. Engagement is probably more scale free than Facebook. People who go to it are looking for a chance to interact with ideas or thinkers they wouldn't as easily get to meet.
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @o_guest and
But what happens is there are only cliques or trolls. Trolls stay because they figure out that negative attention is much easier to get and their personality accepts this. Trolls are also happy to engage with anyone so nobody nodes of small degree get mostly neg-attention.
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @o_guest and
I think large majority face this. It's no fun to tweet into the ether; might as well just keep a private journal. I don't think I deserve anything though. It's only disheartening when I ask a question, get no replies but someone else does get an answer.
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @o_guest and
Or someone makes a statement about,say, stats implying deeper knowledge, I ask and get no reply. It tells me that the cost of reply to me is not worth any expected gain from interaction. This is perfectly understandable but no fun for me.
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @o_guest and
I'm also every so often told I'm only trying to sound smart. I think this is because ppl have assumptions. If I'm in a large thread, I'll actually go out of my to avoid using obscure knowledge/words in anticipation of such replies.
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @o_guest and
As in with the implication that you are not really as smart as you are "trying" to sound? Or something else?
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Replying to @Jade_Pickering @o_guest and
That, yes. If I make an argument that the other person does not have the knowledge to parse as true or false, it is assumed I am stringing together words whose meaning I do not understand. It's pushed me to always strive for clarity though.
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @Jade_Pickering and
I don't know why people say such things but sometimes I think certain priors shorten the distance that has to be crossed to make such statements. There're differences, along many irrelevant variables, in how benefit of doubt is extended, I think.
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @Jade_Pickering and
my working assumption in these cases is that the other person is simply trying to "win" by using insults, and thus a thing related to backsides and head wear. You're clearly a better person than I am.
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Oh... Ass hat 


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