#206: The Easy Way: Use Both 'Like' and 'UnUh' Buttons
.............We know that Twitter wants to make its platform 'healthy'(link).
We also know that it's doing this in a very cumbersome way:
"Twitter is testing two metrics. The first is used to measure ...“toxicity”...and is based on machine learning algorithms created by Google.
The second...is meant to measure conversational health and takes into account...civility, receptivity, and constructivity."
That's like developing software to decide who you like. Way too complicated.
Here's a much simpler way: add a negative emotion button.
Except, you only get to use your 'ding' button, I'm calling it, on a comment regarding one of your own posts, a mention, or a Direct Message sent to you. Plus, dinging removes the offending item. So, it gives the harassed the power to say 'not cool'.
And what are the repercussions, were someone to pile up dings?
1. Dings, alongside 'likes' on one's home page, would be public information, though how many had been accumulated wouldn't be immediately visible; the sorry details could be examined, however.
2. The more dings, the more likely a red flag and possible ban from Twitter.
3. Accounts that had no likes, but a first ding, would be automatically closed down.
What does this do? It gives the harassed power over the harasser. It gives Twitter a red flag to easily patrol the platform. And, it encourages civility.
Plus, by restricting dings to just comments, mentions and DMs, it allows for the usual fun-and-games via retweet.
But what about fly-by-night Twitter accounts that disappear and reappear? This wouldn't be a perfect solution, but it would take care of all but the hard core offenders, the kind that Twitter should do something about by changing its account sign-up process. Perhaps with a database that matched red flag accounts with sign-up information, this would be possible.
Update: 3/16/19: This is the initial take; I'm now writing about the in-depth questions, which will appear in my next post.
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