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It is fashionable to construe Twitter as a discourse hellscape completely inhospitable to meaningful exchange.
But I’d wager that in a lot of cases where people feel that way, it’s because they haven’t built up trust across subcommunities via consistently thoughtful takes.
But I’d wager that in a lot of cases where people feel that way, it’s because they haven’t built up trust across subcommunities via consistently thoughtful takes.
You can’t run up a billion tweet catalogue of edgelordian trollery and then be like, “WTF I just don’t know why people aren’t giving my take the benefit of the doubt”
There is nothing *necessitating* that this medium lead to bad-faith tar fests or rounds of ratios and counterratios. That's a choice you and I make, with every tweet, with every interaction.
Of course, all of what I said is entirely consistent with employing an uncompromising standard of banishing trolls to the block list. Like this guy. They destroy your Twitter experience. So chuck them without hesitation. https://twitter.com/simongre/status/1354591692909756418
I think @Aelkus is right about this.
At the same time, a person must be willing to mercilessly block. This significantly improves one's capacity for meaningful exchange on here. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1354685234101571591?s=20
At the same time, a person must be willing to mercilessly block. This significantly improves one's capacity for meaningful exchange on here. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1354685234101571591?s=20
But also, and this is my main point, I'm more referring to the phenomenon where bad-faith discoursers look up at the heavens and ask, "Why, Lord? Why? Why do they persecute me?" And the answer is people tend not to reward bad-faith actors with the benefit of the doubt.
