Is there ever a reason to block vs mute someone? Give your reasons.
Does anyone disagree with me that this is retarded? You might make a case against shared block lists, or for politicians but I don't see the reason why regular people shouldn't be allowed to block whoever they want.
Shared blocklists are great and it would have been really smart of guys on our side to put together lists of leftists and overlap them the same way they were putting together lists of our accounts 10 years ago.
shared block lists should replace moderators. You should subscribe to the moderation that fits what you want to see. The problem is trying to force everyone together into some shared generic consensus that will never happen.
I don't have a problem with this change after people explained the difference between Block and Mute. (sorry I don't live on social media) What I don't understand is Elon's tactics here, with this and every other twitterxvideos change where he has to make a big announcement personally on his own account. Does he do it to bring media attention? ("all news is good news") Why not just change the buttons and add a link to a page explaining the update and how to use Mute. Why the fanfare? He's not even supposed to be CEO now.
Why? I'm not trying to be inflammatory but there's no flowery way to ask if this is due to some ego thing where you need to make sure you're being listened to and heard by some fuckwit.
If you have something to say, say it. Needing to know if the recipient heard it is silly, especially in online public forums where 99.99% of online discourse isn't a discussion at all and is instead a performance for onlookers. Who cares if they don't hear it and don't respond?
If you mute somebody and they know it then they'll trash you even more knowing that you'll never correct their lies, so it actually encourages worse behavior.
I think you're mistaking muting and blocking. Blocking is what prevents other users from interacting with them. Muting simply stops whoever is muting from seeing it, not everyone else.
So for example, if this were Twitter and you were to respond to me whilst I have you muted, I wouldn't see that response, but others would. If however I had blocked you, you would never even get the opportunity to respond in the first place. For a public space, mute is fine, and eliminates their ability to curate their responses.
This is in reply to this tweet: https://twitter.com/teslaownersSV/status/1692547463121690791
Does anyone disagree with me that this is retarded? You might make a case against shared block lists, or for politicians but I don't see the reason why regular people shouldn't be allowed to block whoever they want.
Shared blocklists are great and it would have been really smart of guys on our side to put together lists of leftists and overlap them the same way they were putting together lists of our accounts 10 years ago.
shared block lists should replace moderators. You should subscribe to the moderation that fits what you want to see. The problem is trying to force everyone together into some shared generic consensus that will never happen.
National Divorce, but for keeping communists away from you on the internet.
I don't have a problem with this change after people explained the difference between Block and Mute. (sorry I don't live on social media) What I don't understand is Elon's tactics here, with this and every other twitterxvideos change where he has to make a big announcement personally on his own account. Does he do it to bring media attention? ("all news is good news") Why not just change the buttons and add a link to a page explaining the update and how to use Mute. Why the fanfare? He's not even supposed to be CEO now.
Elon tweeting the info is the clearest and most direct way to make it public. Also he gets to soften up the userbase before deploying the change.
UX release notes are tidy and all but people have problems reading them too.
Mute is far worse and even more retarded an idea
How is mute worse? Seems like a great idea to me for when you don't care if someone reads your tweets but don't want to see theirs.
At least I should know if I am muted
Why? I'm not trying to be inflammatory but there's no flowery way to ask if this is due to some ego thing where you need to make sure you're being listened to and heard by some fuckwit.
If you have something to say, say it. Needing to know if the recipient heard it is silly, especially in online public forums where 99.99% of online discourse isn't a discussion at all and is instead a performance for onlookers. Who cares if they don't hear it and don't respond?
If you mute somebody and they know it then they'll trash you even more knowing that you'll never correct their lies, so it actually encourages worse behavior.
Don't worry, the people who use Twitter are absolutely the kind to tell you they muted you.
Fragile People mute thousands of people and so their comment section becomes an echo chamber where people say what they want.
(Nasseem Taleeb)
Anybody new to twitter will not know they have muted thousands and their comment section is completely curated/false
I think you're mistaking muting and blocking. Blocking is what prevents other users from interacting with them. Muting simply stops whoever is muting from seeing it, not everyone else.
So for example, if this were Twitter and you were to respond to me whilst I have you muted, I wouldn't see that response, but others would. If however I had blocked you, you would never even get the opportunity to respond in the first place. For a public space, mute is fine, and eliminates their ability to curate their responses.
Yeah Mute is an abomination.