Scripting News: Saturday, December 14, 2024
If you want your network not to flame out, give the users the tools to keep things moderated.#
One of the best features of Facebook is it gives the author of a post the power to decide who can respond to it. (I know they're not the only ones, but they're the first in my experience, so I give them credit.)#
If I write something that I know will attract trolls, I just restrict it to friends. If they flame me, or even try to provoke an argument, I just unfriend them, and I suspect they know that. The hotheads have been culled from the list over time, there's trust that people don't want and won't pick fights. #
Assume adults know when they're asking to argue, and not only don't accept the bait, but don't allow them to participate. #
Keeps things friendly. Not kidding. It doesn't flame out there.#
It also helps that I've been using these networks since the 70s, and there have been times when I sought out the flames, because I could have shut them off at any time, but I let them keep going. Now I don't. I just don't argue online, and as a result the heat doesn't reach me. #
In other words, if you give people good tools, and they use them well, you can make this work. #
PS: To be fair, the NYT piece focused on Bluesky, and they are for sure going down a path much like the one Twitter went down, but it will happen much faster because the trolls are already plentiful and well-organized. They're going for the billion-dollar cashout, for sure and they will very likely get it, and as users we will still be looking for an open system that we can use to get work done. #
Linkblog items for the day.
Highly recommend this week's Chris Lydon podcast. radioopensource.org
2025 Rivian R1T Review, Pricing, and Specs. caranddriver.com
They could give us easy tools to build our own models, from our own archived writing, for private use. This may be a blind spot. It's as if when personal computers started, instead of spreadsheet editors, we were offered great sets of tabulated recalc'ing data. Fun to watch, maybe useful for researchers, but nothing compared to the utility of playing "what if" on our own models. threads.net
Scripting News: Online communities can work. scripting.com
Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the end. nytimes.com
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