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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by markdown on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @06:58PM (#11810937)
They could put a toggle in settings that anyone can use. Call it 'Airplane mode' or 'Do not disturb'.

When enabled, the 'Notifications' link/page disappears from the UI and the user no longer receives messages from anyone who they haven't messaged before.

Not hard to do at all.

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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by cuckcuckspruce on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @10:11PM (#11811669)
Better to make it a whitelist in case somebody no longer wants to receive messages from somebody they've corresponded with in the past. Otherwise if they've ever corresponded with a troll or have had a falling out with friends then the filter is ineffective.

The more I talk about this the more it sounds like a score file[1]. Obviously it would need to be made more user-friendly to be really effective.

[1] http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/slrn-FAQ-4.html

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