Re:Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls
by Estragon on Sunday March 08, 2015 @02:46PM
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Federated twitter blocking where people can choose to outsource the blocking to people they trust would be pretty cool. Kind of like AdBlockPlus lists.
Re:Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls
by needacig on Monday March 09, 2015 @12:54AM
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This exists: https://blocktogether.org/
...Really?
Edit: Not only would this alter a core and fundamental aspect of how Twitter currently operates but it would certainly be non-trivial to implement in an unobtrusive manner.
Who wants what blocked? Is there a generic 'spam/abuse' filter? Is it on by default? Are those tweets put into a spam/abuse section or entirely unviewable. What happens when someone sends a tweet that is blocked by the filter, are they notified?
Try to clearly define what metrics/identifiers you would use to determine a tweet is offensive and should be blocked and then call this implementation trivial.