Tim_N
1851
It’s like choosing to voice your concerns of Blizzard banning Blitzchung in the WoW Classic Barrens general chat. You’re either consuming a product and thereby contributing to its continued success or you are not, there is no in between.
So long as, e.g. AOC and important people like her continue to publish their snide comments on his platform I doubt Musk cares one iota about the insults.
The arrangement of data on that chart makes me question the intelligence of whoever made it. Each quarter is a different line over time?!
I assume they are stacked.
ShivaX
1854
I ain’t paying Twitter a dime. And I’ve always blocked all the ads anyway.
It’s more akin to giving Blizzard shit in their forums, except you have to pay for that too.
You must not be familiar with Elon Musk. His entire identity is being the weird, friendless kid that desperately wants to be liked. It’s the entire reason he bought Twitter. And then the people that convinced him to do it, turned on him anyway almost instantly.
Also snide comments and insults drive away his only real customers: advertisers.
The more toxic and shitty Twitter becomes, the faster it dies.
He hasn’t even changed moderation at all and it’s already something nearly every corporation is stepping back from.
I can respect your position on it, but the reality isn’t binary.
Tim_N
1855
You make fair points, if you’re blocking the ads and not planning to pay the $8 a month I guess you aren’t directly helping them financially in any way (which is different from my WoW Classic example, which I and other people I knew did boycott by unsubscribing immediately after Blitzchung).
Although if you were/are an influential person contributing content for the platform will indirectly help them by attracting regular people to use twitter and look at ads / pay a fee. Which was Stephen King’s argument for why they shouldn’t have to pay a subscription fee at all.
Maybe I am alone in thinking it is ironic to decry a platform and its owner while simultaneously deciding that platform is the best medium to effectively communicate and publish these comments (e.g. AOC, who is definitely someone who could single-handedly attract a chunk of users to switch to a competitor network).
Ah, yes. The “work-from-anywhere” policy. The bane of micromanagers and lonely bosses.
Aleck
1858
Incidentally, I think we all need to recognize that JonRowe fucking nailed it.
ShivaX
1859
King is 100% correct. People like him are the content providers and charging them is idiotic.
Every other social media outlet pays them. Youtube doesn’t charge you to upload videos because that would be stupid and kill their entire platform. Yet, Musk seems intent on doing the same thing. Twitter was in a fairy tale where they got it all for free and the Musk decided to kill the golden goose because he doesn’t understand how anything works.
What, you mean mocking people with memes dating from back when Twilight was a thing isn’t the road to universal acclaim and popular acceptance? Was … was all that time Elon spent on 4chan just wasted?
Houngan
1861
Looking from the outside in, most of you monkeys are going to stay on the branch.
dtolman
1862
Nothing like a RIF with no idea what anyone does. Like the time they sacked a bunch of developers who didn’t code much at my old company, and managed to remove all the people who maintained the build server.
Turns out that no one knew what scripts the build folks ran to get the full build to work, and it took multiple developers from the now short handed team, pulled off their regular work to look into rebuilding the scripts full time for 3 months to get the full product builds to run reliably again, LOL.
JonRowe
1863
They are stacked by quarter of each year. The green line would be the total number of new users through Q4.
The precipitous drop off is after the 2013 “Let’s make the boards less moderated, because some vocal chuds are mad they can’t post edgy memes”
Similar to what Musk is proposing to Twitter.
Removing moderation, in the instance of SA, was implemented immediately prior to a huge drop off in new user registrations.
Almost like… users appreciated a well moderated and run forum (like qt3)
Yeah, I mean you get a tangible benefit in both enjoyment and calories.
It’s pretty obvious from his behavior he cares quite a bit.
I always had the impression Qt3 wasn’t well moderated. In that people are generally given a free hand and posts/threads aren’t heavily scrutinized barring the Movies forum.
LockerK
1866
I’d tend to agree, with the caveat that most of the time it doesn’t need much moderating.
The problem.being there is no competitor to Twitter. It doesn’t exist. The Mastodon likes are similar but not the same at all.
“Well moderated” means exactly that, though; a free hand until you screw up. By that definition this is a very well moderated forum. Enough freedom to make a fool of ourselves, but enough oversight to avoid going into the truly harmful spaces you find elsewhere.
Also, shit bonerz.
I understand what you say, but I was thinking more, historicity.
Tom normally didn’t moderate the forum at all, or hire help to do it. Free fire in his living room.
shit bonerz indeed.
