I sold an egg today for nearly $400 and then gave it away f…
I sold an egg today for nearly $400 and then gave it away for a feature I probably will rarely use (Muting Users). I would rather unfollow someone than muting someone. When I was on Twitter, I noticed that when I muted someone I rarely unmuted the person,
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muting stifles the overall network effect and hurts your profit potential. posting higher quality information will steer you to the corner of the network you’d rather be in
which meant that I no longer interacted with the person. The only reason for keeping a person permanently muted is either to avoid hurting someone’s feelings or to maintain your follower count—both of which exemplify the silliness of Twitter.
Yeah, I suppose I fear Twetch becoming Twitter 2.0. I hope the founding ethos persists. Paying for your information does seem to change things (for the better).
if muting becomes a UI implementation, i'd be worried. but if it requires muters to stake their claim like a /trolltoll, they'll build a rep -> i'll avoid them -> they'll lose fruitful exchanges with me -> their access to info degrades. sorry!!
Completely agree. I think /trolltoll is the perfect solution and all we need. But if muting is done out in the open, I think that’s a good compromise.
for sure. we don't need to inherit 1/2 empty threads of some dude talking to a ghost with a locked acct. what i'm interested to see is how they're gonna handle blacklists of illegal content