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So as it turns out the key to making Twitter less crap is leveraging Daniel Gackle clones.

I think the community here is the other part of the equation. I see HN as a gigantic spinning apparatus that occasionally gets out of alignment by a few microns. Dan simply adds a bit of corrective force in a few areas as appropriate to keep everything happy.

Twitter is a bunch of pigs wallowing in a pit of mud by comparison. You could put a million dangs in there and they would still wind up as muddy as everyone else at the end of the day. Making twitter less crap likely requires some orbital bombardment analogies.

To clean Twitter, wouldn't it be enough to let people create filter groups, kind of like Brave Goggles [1] that are lists of accounts or lists of lists of accounts ?

People would cluster themselves into groups with consistent values and you would just need some moderators for minor adjustments.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31837986

Call it Project Gacklemore

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