Do you really think it's that bad? Can't you just ignore them?
How would you read messages sent only from certain people? I mean there's a whitelist but nothing like allowing a whole category of people.
Well if you're fine with ocular whitelisting then you could just try to not let the comments you find offensive affect you.
That sounds terrible. If someone is socializing or doing business, they don't want to wade through graphic death and rape threats at the same time. Even if it were possible to make themselves desensitized, why would they want to? That sounds like a recipe for not letting anything affect them, even messages they want.
There's no known correlation between being Rich and not being an Asshole.
Totally. I'm kinda off topic, sorry. More the epic amounts of troll and fake accounts. I deleted my Twitter account at about 15k followers, the trolling and spam got too much. Point well taken! :)
I think he meant a paywall, kind of like how some services don't waste their time offering free accounts and receiving tons of support requests.
Billy Gates also famously pondered charging a fee for sending email to reduce spam.
Paying for an account also leads people to feel they're entitled to do whatever they like with it, which might be counterproductive to encouraging civility.
I’ve more commonly heard anecdotes to the opposite conclusion; receivers of free work often value it little and feel entitled to request improvements, while paying users value the service enough to pay.