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Mostly but not entirely off topic, just something I thought about this morning, a hypothetical feature of twitter.

Imagine being able to flip a switch (a “green profile check mark”) that would disable banning and muting features for you. And will only allow another green check marks to engage in conversations with you.

Will this help break the echo chambers, or will it create a tyrannical majority? Both?



This site has a feature called showdead, and I imagine this hypothetical green checkmark would be about as useful.


Showdead is useful. There are so few dead posts that not turning it on is foolish, at least game theoretically if not pragmatically.




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