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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!

very dangerous idea. will =>  mafia formation. real story:
"I’m in Sims Mafia and we'll mark you as untrustworthy, turning your hub solid red, and no one will play with you. You have five minutes to comply.  look at your hub—three of us have already marked you red. Don’t worry we’ll turn it green when you pay"