Hacker News Reader

Comment by kube-system | Hacker News Reader

"artificial" is the key word -- it is referring to intentional manipulation rather than legitimate engagement.

While I wouldn't be terribly surprised if this user was botting their own account (I remember them tweeting the same photo on their Nancy account twice, attributed to different dates for example) this seems like an abusable ban condition. Couldn't I bot someone else's account in order to get them banned?

Again...is that not the whole point of twitter?

Their _entire_ business model is predicated on their algorithm manipulating engagement. There's very little "organic" engagement on social media any more.

Is the point of your home to allow me to live there?

It’s building a community center but not letting the fat kids come play.

Every community center I am familiar with has rules about the types of events that can be held there.

Even more so when they're owned by specific interest groups.

Yeah, but those rules are set by the communities that use them.

This is the case for some community centers, but definitely not all of them. It’s not the case for any of the 4 or 5 that are closest to my home. Many are run by private organizations.

Presumably if they let Joey sell raffle tickets they would also let Marcie sell raffle tickets though.

Alternatively, it would be like kicking out the person trashing the place or screaming obscenities and making everyone uncomfortable, which is generally accepted in the real world.

Sort of, we’d only kick out the lout we disagree with but let the other lout that we agree with continue spouting obscenities and we wink at each other and congratulate ourselves on our taste.

Yes, but to benefit Twitter's advertisers/revenue, not you.

It's Twitter's audience, not yours. That's why I left: I got tired of sharecropping.

You can't spam, but they can inject ads inline.

Many of us use Twitter in chronological mode so their algorithm does little.

In which case I absolutely do not want accounts to be artificially increasing engagement.

And what does that mean?

Their own descriptions are quite detailed:

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/platform-mani...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com