“A Honeypot for Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure to Stop Harassment

Re:“A Honeypot for Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failu... by snockerton on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:46AM (#12269174)

If drawing the line on what is and isn't harassment is subjective, perhaps they should focus on building better mechanisms for individuals to take filtering / blocking into their own hands? One could argue that Twitter has these features already, but apparently the "privileged class" (celebrities) are incapable of leveraging them?

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Re:“A Honeypot for Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failu... by cmdkeen on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:56AM (#12269281)

The article explicitly calls out their lack of product development as hindering the process. The example given is of a feature they've been discussing for 5 years(!) where it would favour displaying replies made by individuals the original tweeter follows.

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Re:“A Honeypot for Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failu... by retox on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:51AM (#12269228)

I don't use Twitter, never have, but I don't understand why the platform doesn't have a whitelist mode, where only those people you've added to a list can message you. Seems like it would sort the problem for good, but I'm probably missing something.

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Re:“A Honeypot for Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failu... by breischl on Thursday August 11, 2016 @12:07PM (#12269380)

I'm in the same boat as you on Twitter usage. But I suspect it's because being able to talk at anybody, including celebrities, is part of the appeal of the platform. The whitelisting mode you suggested makes it more like a one-way broadcast - you can see what people are saying but not join in.

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