[ExI] pay to not play

[Adrian Tymes]

How many of these moderators would turn out to be bots, akin to those that
Elon was worried about?

On Thu, Dec 8, 2022, 6:57 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Hey cool, new idea.  The problem for Musk is that Twitter was hemorrhaging
> money at a rate that necessitates he move fast.  In any such circumstance,
> it is clear the payroll must be slimmed down immediately, for the revenues
> cannot be raised immediately.  The content moderator team was enormous, so
> start there.  All of that is what any of us would do under those
> circumstances, but that causes new problems which must be addressed.
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> Plenty of people have a passion for content on Twitter, and we already
> agreed that it is unlikely people will pay to have someone else’s posts
> removed or pay to keep a post down.  Alternative idea: make everything
> free, so that free speech prevails, but the content moderation on Twitter
> is done by volunteers.  An all-volunteer army moderates Twitter by
> application.
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> That might work: Musk’s remaining paid team is focused on stuff that makes
> actual money while an enormous army of volunteers apply to take posts down,
> which uses get to see.  There would be a standing list of Tweets which have
> gotten the most applications for removal, then Twitter users can hit a
> button to agree or disagree.  No justification necessary.  Then any
> offensive tweet undergoes a kind of election, with its fate decided by
> those who have nothing better to do than spend their free time moderating
> Twitter.
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> The page showing which posts are being debated for removal would contain
> advertising down either margin, for understandable reasons: cover the cost
> of doing business.  Advertisers could mine the content of tweet in
> question, make a judicial guess at the market potential of the objecting
> volunteers and shape what kind of advertisement to present to that crowd,
> opening up a whole new profession: advertisement situational awareness
> specialist.
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> That would make Twitter analogous to the old town square with an option of
> when a random orator is saying something disagreeable, others around him
> can shout “don’t hear!  Don’t hear!”
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> spike
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