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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

People don’t like austerity measures either but it makes for a stronger economy!

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

riffing off this idea, there could even be 3-5 options for the like & dislike buttons, selected via long press 

rated by the algorithm as +, ++, +++, and -, —, —-