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    1. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc Apr 12
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      Would be interesting if Twitter had a way to mute or reduce feed prominence for accounts that like particular tweets. As a reader, it would make it much easier to dial down the otherwise-overexpressed outrage resonant mode.

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      Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc Apr 12
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      Twitter is simultaneously a discussion in the lounge and a brawl in the adjoining bar. Would be great if you could close the door.

      10:15 AM - 12 Apr 2020
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      • BERNARD M NYAGAKA Aoife Kirk Zach Wigal 👾 Shalabh Vyas AlexDelker Kunal Bhalla sourcex Wally Dave O Riordan
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        2. Jeff Atwood‏Verified account @codinghorror Apr 12
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          this is something we tried to encourage through software design in @discourse and the difficulty level is, uh .. extreme

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        3. Jeff Atwood‏Verified account @codinghorror Apr 12
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          One frontier we haven't yet fully explored, but will, is to inhibit folks that dominate the conversation. They *do not like* being conversation limited though, and will complain.. a lot.. about it.

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        2. Micky Thompson‏ @mickythompson Apr 12
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          Me apologizing from bar: Sorry @patrickc, Please forgive me and my friends! Me whispering privately: Hey @mijustin & @ianlandsman, shhh, there are people in the lounge trying to talk! Me apologizing, again: Sorry, @patrickc, it won't happen, again! Can we buy you a drink?

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        3. Justin Jackson‏Verified account @mijustin Apr 12
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          Haha. Ironic! I assumed that Ian and I were the intellectuals in the lounge, carrying on provocative discourse, while the rowdy people in the bar keep yelling “C’mon guyz! Just tweet fun stuff!” at us. 😜

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        2. Sarah Cone‏ @sarah_cone Apr 12
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          There is no place in the entire real-world where civilized, enlightening conversations occur in the same bar with bar brawls going on in another room. You need a different bar, with a different set of incentives, that attracts a different group of people.

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        3. _X‏ @jwmza Apr 12
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          How did you come to this conclusion? Based on my experience, this is *most* bars, not 'none in the entire real-world'

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        1. Pete Keen‏ @zrail Apr 12
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          I started muting lazy retweets a year or two ago and it’s made my timeline actually usable. All you do is add “RT @“ to the muted words list. Retweets with comments still come through, which feels like a reasonable trade off.

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        2. sam‏ @samolus Apr 12
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          @PaulSkallas

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        3. LindyMan‏ @PaulSkallas Apr 12
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          its perfect the way it is. it resembles a bar atmosphere. nothing has to be changed

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        1. 𝘽𝙤𝙗𝙗𝙮 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙮  🍔‏ @realBobbyHealy Apr 12
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          Much more craic over here Patrick.

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