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Elon Musk Plans to Remove Option to Block People on Twitter
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Let them fight. People who are toxic eventually turn on each other when they run out of people to attack.
If his goal is to destroy Twitter/X, then just lay everyone off and declare bankruptcy and be done with it. No clue why anyone would go and work for this disaster of a human being.
So blocking doesn't work as intended because they can just switch accounts. But muting does work as intended even though they could just switch accounts.
Hopefully you can see the contradiction in those arguments.
The problem isn't the block function. The problem is that abusers can just switch accounts.
Like it or not it’s called X now. If you want to be a respectable news site you’ll stop calling it Twitter.
Or... MacRumors has effective moderation policies and enforces them, including bans.
Who has ever wanted to be respectable ? And respect is earnt isn't it ? Come on Elon earn mine....
We need blocking as some people come on the web just looking to argue. I never respond to those post & will have to leave twitter if that is removed. Too many wachos out there...
Agreed. I still have my TwitX account, but because of the changes under current ownership I hardly post with it anymore. It's used to keep track of other accounts that I follow, especially for breaking news such as updated weather information as a big storm bears down on Southern California.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Musk bails on his ego-driven crusade to burn down the former bird app, and that someday under a different owner it will be a better place to have a conversation again.
Maybe "news" sites will stop calling it Twitter when X Corp stops having the Twitter name all over the site. You can't criticize MacRumors, or other sites, for referring to it as Twitter when X Corp itself still does on many of the pages.
Why would he do that? The news says he paid “cash” for Twitter. The reality is he took out bank loans. Bank loans with an s-load of Tesla stock as collateral. Twitter goes down, he takes Tesla with it. 268 million shares being sold would negatively impact his net worth far beyond the premium he paid for Twitter.
It really does seem to be getting dumber and dumber.
Why is someone at the level of CEO mucking around with minuscule decisions like block ability? Is Elon must the definition of micro-managing? Does he not have better and grander ideas to look at and bigger problems to solve? The amount of latitude this guy gets and the privilege he has is astounding. He's a d**khead.
What has to happen to someone to think that James Woods is "one of the most important people on" Twitter who "helps educate others." I want to laugh at that statement but it says something so profoundly sad about the person saying it.
If you go back and read my statement, I said "other parts of the world have specific reasons for needing or wanting a single monolithic app" and then cited one example, not the only example. There are also social or cultural reasons for preferring such an app. Can you explain the social or cultural reason for Japan embracing such an app that is also applicable to people in the US? I can't think of one.
FWIW, there have been other attempts to launch such apps in the US and they have failed, unless you can name one that I'm not thinking of that's a huge success. There's no track record here in the US for this concept.
Here's an article that might help understand the complexities of launching a super app in the US. Frankly, I don't see any evidence that Musk is smart enough to navigate all of this. If someone is going to make a success of a super app in the US, it won't be him.
Did I misrepresent it as something else? We are on here giving our opinions.
Agree to disagree.
Again, assuming I'm a troll, you can block me on X and I'll just switch to a different account. What do you do then? I have tons of twitter accounts (mostly from developing bots for various clients to bypass api limits).
I can easily buy 100 twitter accounts today for cheap using BTC to add to my large arsenal of twitter accounts. Blocking doesn't fix.
A troll would enjoy seeing you being frustrated at blocking every account.
Agree to disagree. Seemingly useful for many people, sure. But not actually useful.
Probably a good idea. I might use one of my hundreds burner accounts to do it too, like you do on twitter.
Exactly! In addition to that, Facebook and Instagram also give you the option to block new accounts that are likely created by users you've already blocked (presumably, they're using IP and other identifying info.) The concept that blocking people is useless because it's not perfect is ridiculous and only makes sense to Elon Musk apologists.
Like it or not, we’re gonna keep deadnaming twitter.
This is a platform with crappy users.
You don't just say "don't talk about the crappy users" and treat it like base level interaction is polite and awesome. That's ridiculous.
"More often than not" agree to disagree.
"every single twitter-like" well then move on to a new platform if you're comparing X to another
and fyi, you're forgetting that mute is changing. won't be the same.
What you're describing is an extreme situation akin to stalking where the involvement of law enforcement would be appropriate. So, in a sense, you're right. Blocking doesn't fix that specific edge case, but for 99% of trolls out there, being blocked is the perfect fix. I've blocked thousands of trolls on social media and never experienced what you're describing. This may be the finest example I've ever seen of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It seems you're a fan of Musk and feel the need to defend everything he does but don't take that to a ridiculous length. Removing the ability to block trolls is just dumb. Period, end of story.
I'm showing one instance where it flourished regardless of gov control. If Line can do it, so can X.
Other attempts are irrelevant. That's like saying GM EV1 car was shut down in failure, so there's no way Tesla can be successful. HUNDREDS of articles published on well known publications were written how Tesla was going to fail. They were wrong.