I love this. Strong upvoted. I wonder if there’s a “silent majority” of folks who would tend to post (and upvote) reasonable things, but don’t bother because “everyone knows there’s no point in trying to have a civil discussion on Twitter”.
Might there be a bit of a collective action problem here? Like, we need a critical mass of reasonable people participating in the discussion so that reasonable participation gets engagement and thus the reasonable people are motivated to continue? I wonder what might be done about that.
Collective action problem idea: we could run an experiment -- 30 ppl opt in to writing 10 comments and liking 10 comments they think raise the sanity waterline, conditional on a total of 29 other people opting in too. (A “kickstarter”.) Then we see if it seemed like it made a difference.
I’d join. If anyone is also down for that, feel free to use this comment as a schelling point and reply with your interest below.
(I’m not sure the right number of folks, but if we like the result we could just do another round.)
I love this. Strong upvoted. I wonder if there’s a “silent majority” of folks who would tend to post (and upvote) reasonable things, but don’t bother because “everyone knows there’s no point in trying to have a civil discussion on Twitter”.
Might there be a bit of a collective action problem here? Like, we need a critical mass of reasonable people participating in the discussion so that reasonable participation gets engagement and thus the reasonable people are motivated to continue? I wonder what might be done about that.
Yes, I’ve felt some silent majority patterns.
Collective action problem idea: we could run an experiment -- 30 ppl opt in to writing 10 comments and liking 10 comments they think raise the sanity waterline, conditional on a total of 29 other people opting in too. (A “kickstarter”.) Then we see if it seemed like it made a difference.
I’d join. If anyone is also down for that, feel free to use this comment as a schelling point and reply with your interest below.
(I’m not sure the right number of folks, but if we like the result we could just do another round.)
I’d participate.
I’d participate.
Interested