Product

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!

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

this. 

people often don’t like what is necessary for high-functioning, high-signal operations to exist

doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done

facts over feelings to make it a cliché