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People don’t want to see uninteresting replies and casts.

Best way to solve for that is weight historical inbound engagement for a user, i.e. PageRank-like score for every user.

Disproportionally hurts new accounts. Making it harder to get started.

This is fundamentally caused by the lack of negative signal in the Twitter model.

Try giving users the equivalent of a downvote button 

Icon proposal: 🙄

The only problem is externality pricing.

Building https://negationgame.com

Proposed the downvote button multiple times and people did not like the idea!

The apprehension is understandable. It would put a damper on the positive vibes. It’s one thing to cast something and get no likes. It’s another to get downvoted by a bunch of people who disagree. It’s akin to getting negative feedback with little to no explanation as to why.  As if they couldn’t be bothered.