TFW you're so blessed to never be the target of a dog pile can't imagine wanting to keep these people awayhttps://twitter.com/mwiik/status/797957370672361472 …
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I wouldn't block someone for saying "NAFTA is awful, and needs to go". This isn't about the politics involved.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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it's about people who go around attacking, using dogwhistles, etc. I'd prefer to cut that part of the network away.
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these days, I'd take dogwhistles
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treating the offender as a dangerous node and disabling all their edges in the graph isolates the risk they represent.
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I leave it up to people (especially vulnerable people) to decide how much they feel comfortable with persuasion, but 1/
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there are some people who are self evidently operating in bad faith, spewing venom and not persuadable. 2/2
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broad moral claims about "you have to engage every person on Twitter" are just bizarre.
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I don't engage every person on twitter. I sometimes ignore, & sometimes mute. I don't want to get angry enough to block. YMMV
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oh, no, it has nothing to do with anger. Not even a bit. Everything to do with being safe.
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My stated approaches are based on my current experience. They're not written in stone.
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the problem is that you're speaking morally. Some of us have experienced virulent enough attacks to block.
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if someone tells me to die in an oven, it doesn't seem hard for me to block them (just as I would in real life)
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I've been blocked by 3-4 people I am fans of for what seems to me to be minor violations of **their** etiquette. There is no appeal.
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It's a bad feeling (for me) to be in their blocked graveyard for such, hence, I don't do it to others, except if abused or spammed.
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to block them even if you're not their target