Likes and retweets both existing is interesting. One is more private endorsement, the other is more public. Having tools for expressing support without loudly signalling it seems valuable.
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Quiet signals = weak support If you're showing support, it should be vocal, yes?
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No. Why should you always express your support loudly?
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If you can't say it loudly, it might not be worth saying.
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Keyword might. Sometimes the things that one dare not say loudly are precisely the things which we need tools to say quietly, so that we can have a hope of getting common knowledge and breaking out of the bad equilibrium.
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Exactly. Twitter 'likes' create better common knowledge about viewpoints, and help overcome 'pluralistic ignorance'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance …
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Another issue to consider might be the side effects of eradicating likes upon the network criticality of a given message. Relying only on re-broadcasting is likely to amplify some of the worst tendencies of users to speak hyperbolically in order to cross the retweet threshold.
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Love that question wording. Sounds like something out a sociologist's survey "study."
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I am somewhat satirizing the wording bias built into most public opinion surveys...
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Pollster's 5-point Likert scale: "Geoffrey Miller's opinion survey satire is on point" Me: "Strongly agree"
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This is meta, meta.
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Something as simple as renaming "Favorite" to "like" massively impacted how users enjoyed the site. I'm sure they know what they're doing.
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That must explain how strongly their user base has been growing??
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I'd *like* to get rid of Jack as
$TWTR CEO. I often like an tweet linked to an article to read later but don't want to retweet until I've read it. And sometimes it's nice to just *like* a cute dog video. - 1 more reply
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But likes should not be broadcast on other people's timeline that is what RTs are for. Likes are more personal communication, tip of the hat, not something I especially want others to see.
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The current method is okay. They are broadcast, but with a much lower probability than retweets I think.
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I want to change it from a heart to the kissy face thing

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And it should get progressively more daring with time.
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