First thing I do when I see "more replies" is click on it, knowing this is where the juicy stuff or counter argument is.
Like in HN, when it says [dead], I have to read it, to see whether I agree with it being [dead] or not ;-)
So there is certainly psychology there, at least to me, that makes me dig further. By hiding stuff behind a click you actually make me want to read it more!
How about "I disapprove what you say, but you can go say it on your account, and not in mine, because your replies will be hidden, because it is my account.".
I did that — vouched for comments that I thought were on-topic and dead only because people (sometimes including me) disagreed — and promptly lost the ability to vouch.
> First thing I do when I see "more replies" is click on it, knowing this is where the juicy stuff or counter argument is.
Exactly, which is why I don't understand this feature. If you can't really hide replies, only instead call attention to the replies you've "hidden", what is the point of it?
But the way the feature works is to fork the conversation. Now, both ideologies can continue their threads of discussion without necessarily disrupting the other one.
I always think of kuro5hin when these types of containment features are brought up. It's kind of like "your freedom to swing your fist stops right before my nose" type of protection.
It would be weird for twitter though because a tweet itself is essentially a comment- people would make de facto counter-comments instead of replies and it would just be an unthreaded version of the original thing.
There's a lot more to trump than twitter, and a lot of discussions have been ruined through trolling, both by individuals and bots. This provides a way for people to clear their own front yards of what they consider trash, but there's an abundance of yards. If Trump hides all dissent, so what? It will be more than apparent, and right behind a single click!
First thing I do when I see "more replies" is click on it, knowing this is where the juicy stuff or counter argument is.
Like in HN, when it says [dead], I have to read it, to see whether I agree with it being [dead] or not ;-)
So there is certainly psychology there, at least to me, that makes me dig further. By hiding stuff behind a click you actually make me want to read it more!
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