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Comment by madeofpalk | Hacker News Reader

It actually kind of has the opposite effect. Turns out the people that want to pay to have their opinions heard probably don't have great things to say, so it creates an easy demarcation in the replies. You can just ignore all the posts at the top with a blue check, and then go down to the higher quality organic posts at the bottom.

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Thanks for the advice, but I think I will just continue to ignore Twitter.

Important things will still probably reach me in embedded shape or quote on other sites, but currently I cannot remember a single tweet at all, that not reading it, would have changed my life for the worse.

So no doubt good content is hidden underneath, but all this drama makes it not worth it for me.

I’ve been considering adding this bot to my account just for a chuckle: https://twitter.com/jules_su/status/1656005035631820804?s=46

But if this is what is happening to the prioritisation of replies it might actually be a useful change.

Does it only hide them for yourself? Because I can still see all those tweets that are meant to be hidden.

Ironically, this kept the overall bluecheck quality fairly stable. People used to be gifted bluechecks for knowing the right people or being some variety of celebrity or influencer, rather than because they were good or thoughtful writers.

Blocking blue ticks also works well for this

Actually Elon gifted thousands of blue ticks to any accounts that had over 1M followers and other notable accounts in order to obfuscate who paid for their tick and who did not.

Thousands? Thought it was hust three. Where did you find that out?

Most of the people I know of paying for it are paying for the other features like long posts.

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