Rewrite Twitter to Improve Discourse
3 by caminmccluskey | 3 comments on Hacker News.
The general sentiment of discourse on Twitter seems to be at an all time low. It's an actively depressing place to spend any amount of time browsing. My question is, if Twitter could rewrite overnight, what fundamental changes should they make to the platform to make it a more pleasant place to exchange thoughts and ideas? Furthermore, what changes could be made to make the platform more open to civilised debate across a range of (potentially sensitive) topics? I realise that hate is good for engagement, ideally any changes they made wouldn't affect this (else they wouldn't make them). I also realise that the average level of "pleasant" isn't a metric you can directly measure - so we could assume average positive sentiment per tweet. On the second question let's assume you can measure ad hominem (somewhat possible: https://ift.tt/3esv7yr) and changes which minimise this are desirable.