Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet

Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by latexr on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:12PM (#23863867)

> Well, there's always 4chan, which is exactly what you just said.

I disagree. 4chan isn’t Twitter without visible voting, it also has anonymity baked in, you can’t register an account, and old threads are automatically deleted.

A more apt example of (my understanding of) the argument you’re replying to is HN: you can see your own points on a discussion, but not anyone else’s. Posts are given more prominence due to their score, but due to their invisibility you only get a rough idea of how popular they are inside their own discussion, not how much more popular they are in relation to other posts.

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by justinator on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:48PM (#23864189)

hn still has internet points in the form of karma, though.

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by latexr on Thursday July 16, 2020 @06:34PM (#23864622)

> hn still has internet points

I spent over half my post discussing them. The point is that they are not visible.

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by justinator on Thursday July 16, 2020 @08:25PM (#23865548)

I guess my point is that they ARE visible (karma). Click on a username of someone. Yours is at, "888". Popularity contests are alive and well on hn.

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by zeroimpl on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:06PM (#23866557)

Does anybody actually look at other users points on a regular basis? I think it’s rare which is why it’s not really relevant.

Besides, it’s not even a measure of popularity but more of a lifetime scoreboard. If HN reported something like average points per post or per day, that would be closer to a popularity metric (eg more inline with “number of followers”)

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by justinator on Friday July 17, 2020 @03:42PM (#23874615)

It's magic internet points, no matter how you slice it. Having more or less changes what you can/cannot do on the site.

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by latexr on Saturday July 18, 2020 @07:40PM (#23885752)

> Having more or less changes what you can/cannot do on the site.

That’s unrelated to the discussion, which is about how visible internet points affect how users engage with each other’s comments.

Site permissions are a different matter altogether, and not applicable to most social networks.

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