Re:Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the qua...
by pjc50 on Monday October 29, 2018 @07:46AM
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> Sarcasm, inside-jokes, rhetorical hyperbole, assumptions that everyone is following the same story they are, and so on. I don't know why they do it.
Done well and taken in context, it's funny?
Context-free humor is extremely hard but somehow twitter has managed to evolve that too. @dril may be the most well known example.
Using the internet for "debate" is pretty difficult outside of fairly homogenous, heavily moderated environments. It just about works on HN and even here it only works on certain subjects.
Besides, the entire premise of "debate" runs out for certain subjects: "we're taking away your rights because you didn't argue convincingly enough that you should get to live in peace" is inherently a disaster.
Done well and taken in context, it's funny?
Context-free humor is extremely hard but somehow twitter has managed to evolve that too. @dril may be the most well known example.
Using the internet for "debate" is pretty difficult outside of fairly homogenous, heavily moderated environments. It just about works on HN and even here it only works on certain subjects.
Besides, the entire premise of "debate" runs out for certain subjects: "we're taking away your rights because you didn't argue convincingly enough that you should get to live in peace" is inherently a disaster.