It would help. However, Twitter makes money based on energetic engagement, and no emotion drives behavior better than rage, so they don’t want to fix it.
It’s like the situation with phone companies. There actually are effective ways to prevent spoofed phone numbers, according to my dad who works at a telecom company. However, since scammers and telemarketers are by far the biggest customers, phone companies won’t make the changes needed to do this.
Correct. Although you don’t even need the dislike button to fix OP’s problems; Twitter has the view:like ratio and can solve it themselves.
This is part of why buying Twitter to altruistically run it as a public service seems to me like a pretty effective technique, except for the tens of billions of dollars you’d be “burning” as tribute to twitter execs in order to accomplish it.
It would help. However, Twitter makes money based on energetic engagement, and no emotion drives behavior better than rage, so they don’t want to fix it.
It’s like the situation with phone companies. There actually are effective ways to prevent spoofed phone numbers, according to my dad who works at a telecom company. However, since scammers and telemarketers are by far the biggest customers, phone companies won’t make the changes needed to do this.
Correct. Although you don’t even need the dislike button to fix OP’s problems; Twitter has the view:like ratio and can solve it themselves.
This is part of why buying Twitter to altruistically run it as a public service seems to me like a pretty effective technique, except for the tens of billions of dollars you’d be “burning” as tribute to twitter execs in order to accomplish it.