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Re:Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the qua... by radmuzom on Monday October 29, 2018 @09:01AM (#18327117)
Upvoted - not sure why a perfectly reasonable comment is greyed out. My experience is same as yours - I only follow data scientists and data visualization specialists and my experience is absolutely brilliant. I also discovered some really great technical posts on R using Twitter.
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Re:Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the qua... by zeroname on Monday October 29, 2018 @09:04AM (#18327145)
> Upvoted - not sure why a perfectly reasonable comment is greyed out

It might be the hint that maybe sometimes people are at least somewhat responsible for their problems.

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Re:Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the qua... by zeroname on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:25PM (#18329245)
New Rule:

If you don't want the "like" button on Twitter, you're not allowed to press the "downvote" button on HN.

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Re:Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the qua... by Retra on Monday October 29, 2018 @09:21AM (#18327261)
Your personally sculpted use-patterns aren't really relevant to any of the problems that the platform causes within society. Twitter users still vote.
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Re:Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the qua... by zeroname on Monday October 29, 2018 @09:50AM (#18327496)
"The data clearly shows that cancer causes smoking!"
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