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There are lots of ways to discourage something short of banning it.
Yes, but if a platform incentivizes x, discouraging x becomes hard. Diff. btwn instagram & twitter is incentives, not disincentives.
If you put 100 ppl in a room who compete to be heard, they start shouting. Limit them to short txt msgs, and this encourages atavism/zingers
At that point, you're policing boundary of how sharp the zingers can be as ppl press against the boundary. Now it's a hard problem.
Maybe limit the # of ppl who can see a tweet to a fixed #, so ppl don't compete for attention? But change the incentive instead of policing.
Or maybe @Twitter should remove the retweet, likes and replies counters? Those are visible rewards that encourage all kinds of behaviour.
General principle is that for text, many-to-many requires small groups (otherwise shouting). one-to-many is fine. Maybe combine the two?
E.g. only a small group can reply to, like, comment on your text. But you can also subscribe to a read-only firehose from other groups
We have a semblance of this in protected handles. But it doesn't encourage conversation.
Thank you. I’m designing my app. I needed to read that the solution is in the creative design, not the ban. I believe destructive speech is not the same as free speech. Destructive speech leaves no one free. #cagedbird
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