Where are my Elon Stans? Show yourselves. Give me the spin how this is a good feature? King of all trolls continues to troll
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Elon Musk Plans to Remove Option to Block People on Twitter
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Actually it makes it funnier and more enjoyable for the troll to frustrate you on X using multiple accounts. While you think you may have won after thinking they got tired, they've enjoyed making you angry. Quite often they would post to have the last say and then mute you. They put you out of their mind while you were probably wasting your time on earth angrily blocking yet another account.
Mute doesn't give them that satisfaction. "The best revenge is living well" - Ricky Gervais
Agree to disagree. Have a good one!
Except trolls have many accounts.
If you really want a "space", protect/lock your X account.
Making murder illegal doesn’t make it impossible to murder someone — and even get away with it sometimes — so let’s just legalize it, then. Sounds great.
Can you switch bodies after killing someone? Nope. Weird analogy IMO.
Zero risk trolling someone on X. Life-changing risks killing someone in reality.
It's clear I'm not changing your mind so we'll call it there and agree to disagree. Have a good one!
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Wow. Sounds like a great platform. Who wouldn't want to sign-up for this... 😶
ps. The poet George Herbert said that long before Ricky did.
Don't like it, don't use it...? Plenty of alternatives.
Meanwhile, engagement seems to be increasing since Elon bought it.
And I'm sure someone else did before that in some other language. We're not going down that blackhole.
You’ve told on yourself a lot here between this, the supposed dozens of Twitter accounts in your password manager, and your relentless defense of the possible removal of a feature that is objectively beneficial for privacy and safety. That’s to say it sounds like you have plenty of experience getting blocked and you relish driving people to that point. I’m glad I have better things to do.
My mind never needed changed because it doesn’t impact me one bit if a platform implements a feature that I don’t personally want/need/use, and for the most part I don’t get blocked by the people I interact with. Therefore, if I took your position that blocking is just a waste of time, I would not use it and the feature’s presence or absence simply wouldn’t faze me, as a user, one way or the other.
Evidently that’s not the case.
Have a good one!
Do people actuallly read about an issue before making tnese statements? The Mute feature accomplishes exactly what you say.
Late to the discussion... I dug through many responses but didn't see another point of view between blocking and muting, that has nothing to do with stalkers but does help with free (not hate) speech. Here's an example:
With Blocking:
With Muting:
The liar can mute all the responses that are disliked, but the general public will now be enlightened with facts and references that back it up.
Just trying to look at this problem from an unbiased engineering point of view.
With Blocking:
The general public won't know the truth
With Muting:
The liar can mute all the responses that are disliked, but the general public will now be enlightened with facts and references that back it up.
Just trying to look at this problem from an unbiased engineering point of view.
Genuis! I hope Elon kills all social networking maybe people finally go out and touch grass.
"X: The Solar System's #1 Source for Ivermectin and Alex Jones supplements!"
Engagement is increasing based off of who's figures? Cause if they're Elon's I doubt they're accurate 😂
Muting filters incoming media. Blocking controls outgoing media. Muting and blocking are two different things. If they take away blocking, you could mute someone, but they could still take your media and run amok with it. Blocking is integral to protecting people from people.
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Alex Jones is still banned from X, FYI.
Also plenty of ads have community notes if they turn out to be scams. This isn't much of a gotcha as you think it is.
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Believe Elon when they say they're not cashflow positive yet but don't believe Elon when they say engagement is increasing. 😂
So you think blocking is not necessary? I'm trying to understand your perspective.
People are not entitled to free speech on a privately owned platform. Period. Open debate and conversation are things that platforms can strive for, but so long as there’s a profit motive speech will never be truly free and any claim otherwise is *********.
The general public seeking “truth” in any way, shape, or form from social media platforms is the root of a lot of societal problems. At best it’s a jumping-off point for further investigation.
Plus, if someone wants a “bubble” on some or all issues, who’s to say they can’t have one? For example, as a gay man, I’m not particularly interested in being informed, ever, that I’m a “groomer” simply because I’m not both straight and cisgender, part of a new moral panic that has since translated into me being called a f*ggot — for the first time in my adult life at 27 — out of a car window several weeks back just for walking into a store just for wearing a shirt with the original rainbow Apple logo on it. (Or at least that’s what I think spurred it; other than the rainbow colors on my shirt I’d like to think I present to a stranger as a pretty regular guy.)
Twitter now actively encourages that type of content in the name of “open debate” as to whether I still deserve rights that I already have. Forgive me, but that’s a debate for which I have absolutely no interest in participating or even seeing.
There’s also the whole issue where muting just doesn’t work in some places on Twitter, unlike blocking.
I think blocking didn't do its job considering it's very easy to switch accounts and continue trolling as before. You can also buy tens to hundreds of twitter accounts with legitimate history and content with bitcoin. It infact encourages trolls to continue trolling as they enjoy the chaos it causes.
I'm arguing that it's not useful. Personally if I was CTO, I'd have the engineers work on something more important. But fighting to keep it is something I'm not going to advocate for.
Agree to disagree.
I'm well aware of how mute and block works.
Not talking about other apps. Talking about X. I honestly don't care how you use block on other apps.
Sorry, what? I'm the one not caring if X deletes it. You're the one arguing against what is happening. Who really is the one protesting?
Full sentence is "But it clearly has its uses, and is clearly different than mute.". You would have had to qualify the statement with "But it clearly has its uses TO ME" in order for this argument to be valid.
What I said is perfectly valid. I don't see its uses. You think differently. Therefore let's agree to disagree.
Throwing insults isn't cool. Have a good one.
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If it’s not useful, why has it existed in the first place ? Clearly both Block and Mute have their uses and that’s why both features exist. If you don’t find it useful, it’s fine just don’t use it. But some other people do find it useful, so there’s no reason to take it away in my opinion.