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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 

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The only problem is externality pricing.

Building https://negationgame.com

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

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

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have you heard of Argentina, Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, Hungary, Yugoslavia, or Venezuela?

aren’t you a bitcoin person?

Are there examples of necessary things which are nonetheless painful or unpopular?

i very much am but austerity != good outcomes because it is not the universal solution to everything

unsustainable spending is very much a thing and for that austerity is worth it but it should be temp until things are more sustainable because the negative externalities of it are huge and it itself is not sustainable