Retweet was essentially hacked into use by (.)replying. Separately, eliminating meanness is dystopian thought control. Real = viral
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There is a precedent for conversation with far less meanness that's not dystopian thought control: talking face to face.
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Less meanness in _your_ conversations. Twitter opens us up the world: gentle and the mean. Mean literally means average.
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The same people are nastier to one another on Twitter than they'd be face to face.
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Agreed. Fewer consequences. Less impulse control. Still face to face is not scaleable, unless you think of video as face to face. VR?
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It might be, in the sense that it might be possible to scale some of the things that make face to face work. Maybe VR, maybe not so literal.
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Context replaces face-to-face in subtly triggering good behavior. On DoerHub we did visual multi-layered profiles for users: instant respect
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Context is everything. Face to face is contenxt. Can you be mean to a person when you see them like this? :pic.twitter.com/rdXhIoDedb
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You should try hosting an instance yourselves. Treat it as an experiment, and maybe it will become the tail that wags the dog, like Paypal.
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What do you mean as an instance? Can you please explain that conceptually? Thanks
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"Civil is the best comment platform for connecting people on your site" - Put your comment software on the page so we can see a live demo
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It doesn't work without an active community. Try http://www.denverpost.com or https://www.theglobeandmail.com if you want to see it in action.
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If you tried putting something up, you might find a community appeared. You only need about 10 people for it to start to be useful.
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People are notably meaner on Twitter than on Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest. The user experience design matters, I think.
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Guys-it's bc your Auntie isn't on here and people don't get on here to share potty training success. Go to FB for nice. Leave Twitter alone.
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I left FB bc it wasn't a platform for dialogue. I
twitter bc everyone here came to discuss. I say: grow thicker skin and keep talking! 
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That's like saying the way to deal with insecure OSes is to resign yourself to your computer being loaded with viruses.
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