Ayashe Ninetails

Love's just out here rabble-rousing. 😂 I agree with CaithLynn. Back on topic the lot of ya or all your wigs are getting snatched. 😆

Oh it's an absolutely good idea to use it for more sensitive websites/info. Totally agree there.

Real talk - I kinda hate it. I have a cell but it's never activated. I almost never use the thing for actual conversation or messaging and if I need to use apps or whatever, woot - Wifi! So needing to authenticate myself on Twitch just annoys me to no end, LOL. I do understand streamers who use that feature, but I just haven't bothered doing it yet. When I activate my phone in the next...year or two I'll do that lol.

You could try making that a separate thread, but it'd likely last all of five minutes. 🤣

Not exactly, no. How often are you on Twitter? I'm on social media wayyyyyyy more than I care to admit *cough* and no - people in all different types communities have concerns with Elon's ownership of the platform for all different types of reasons. It's not simply the ones entrenched in politics. Small business owners are concerned and are looking for alternative platforms to promote on (he did say he wanted to reduce advertising), some who run small non-profits and advocacy programs are worried that moderation will slip even further into the abyss (I saw someone on Twitter worried about her child protection advocacy and how loosening moderation might cause more harm than good in that realm), gamers are freaked out because we freak out about everything silly (omg what if he buys Steam too you guyyyyyyyz?!?!), bloggers want alternative places to advertise, parents worried about their kids being exposed to more toxicity, etc. I wouldn't call it a "meltdown" btw - it's very reasonable to worry about the future of the platform you're invested in (some financially). And many are when you count how many people use Twitter to promote themselves (their blogs, books, courses, organizations, small businesses, freelance businesses, etc. etc. etc.).

LMAO...you aren't wrong there honestly. If the harasser was a major advertiser, maybe they would look the other way. 😂 Oh honey.gif. 🤣 I'm going to be nice to Twitch and link a somewhat positive article about the steps they took to combat this, but this also explains what the issues were rather nicely - https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/11/22620874/twitch-implements-improved-chat-filters

Curious what you're basing this part on exactly - and who is the side who would benefit in say, the cooking community or entertainment or travel blogging or whatever random area of Twitter someone hangs out in? I mean, if you have a food blogger (random example) getting harassed by a reader who is super big mad that she's not using enough baking soda in her recipe and launches into a tirade about it and followers her all over the place tweeting mean tweets about her (hey, stranger things have happened on there) - which is the side that would benefit by Twitter's supposed one-sided moderation policy? Twitter is massssssssive (not to mention hugely international). Politics isn't the only thing going on over there.

I'm going to hell. I laughed so hard at this. Because it's TRUE. Well, in some cases yeah, it's because the people who were being attacked were well-known enough and made enough mistakes (aiming the camera out the window and showing too much of their street or somesuch) for others to go digging and find stuff online. However, there are bots that do it, too. If you aren't familiar with the #TwitchDoBetter movement from not too long ago, the tl;dr there is small minority streamers were getting abso-freaking-lutely flooded by bots spewing racist and homophobic rants using special characters to get around the built-in moderation systems. Unfortunately, some of these bots were also armed with streamers' personal info (addresses, numbers, etc.) and would spam their channels over and over and over, blasting it out. Soooo, that happened! Twitch did NOT A THING (gee, surprise?) about it initially. Individual streamers and their fans couldn't do much, either, as the bots would spam so creatively, taking countermeasures would require manually banning millions of letter variations. I think someone did finally manage to script a system to slow things down, but it took a few months for the hate raids to stop. Twitch now has a verified chat system a streamer can turn on, requiring a separate phone verification in order to use the chat at all. That seems to have helped, but MAN were they slow getting that rolled out!

Thanks for adding additional insight there. I agree - it's a lot worse than even I make it out to be. Especially if you DO venture over into Politics Twitter (which I do my best not to do often unless there's breaking news that directly impacts me). I forgot to even mention the bot farms and doxxing and craziness. That's precisely the reason why I don't really get too involved much with that corner of the platform. Things are ugly enough on my side, lol. Unless you actually use the platform, you really can't fathom just how crazy it all gets. Reading articles and reports from the outside is nothing - seeing someone's life get ruined before your very eyes in real time as some random blasts all their personal info to their thousands upon thousands of followers is gut wrenching. Ugh.

One side of what? I don't know what a "woke progressive" is as my AAVE is quite limited (bad me), but my posts aren't addressing any of that. If you mean politics, then I have no idea. I pay exactly zero attention to any left/right whining on that platform. It's not even worth my time to read those comments on Twitter. My most recent post mentioned the gaming industry, for example. That's the Twitter community I'm most engaged with, outside of music, hobbies, some business, and art. I've personally seen abuse and harassment in the areas of gaming, game development, streaming and YouTube celebrity fanbases, business, music, art, etc. I'm talking about mostly regular people here - not the big, massively followed verified accounts or anything. How Twitter chooses to moderate those is a mystery to me - perhaps it depends on how much is reported and how much influence a person has. Zero idea. I can say I have not seen Twitter take any serious action against actual harmful bullying and pile-ons in the industries I've mentioned (where they seemingly happen frequently, if not daily - gaming especially). They might delete a few posts, maybe. Whole accounts - ehhh it doesn't happen that frequently. As far as moderation goes - Twitter and other platforms occasionally contract with some outside companies to develop/train some AI bots to help with that. I've done a few tiny freelance projects that involved testing the effectiveness of some of these bots. They mostly suck (no surprise), but the bots aren't trained to spot political biases or anything. They're basic little things that will fail to spot toxicity if you try to get too sassy or sarcastic and can only really pick out direct insults (no surprise). Seems to be a complete waste of time for spotting anything but four letter words, really. As for Twitter's manual moderation process - zero idea. One thing I DO know - some of the big big big accounts that have been banned had very good reasons for why that happened. Azealia Banks? Yeah I'm not sorry she got yeeted off the platform (though I think she's back now, maybe).

Yeah, it's just a lot to think about. It's something I've been bothered by for many years now as I've seen really good people struggle on these platforms and nothing's ever done about it. Social media in general can do some serious harm. In the gaming industry alone, it's an absolute nightmare. I've seen entire careers ruined over it, and far, far worse. Of course, I'm not saying it's an easy thing to moderate. It's really not. But that's the responsibility Twitter has to contend with. There is no simple fix, but it's up to them to figure it out.

This is true. It used to be a loooot easier. I first joined in 2013 and there was no phone verification (maybe email? I don't even remember). But I tried making a second account for blog purposes a few years ago and it got instabanned before I could even verify, HMPF. And then was asked to make a new account for a freelance gig and had to verify it with a phone. That one went through. But yeah it's likely their bot-prevention system that makes it so obnoxious - if you sign up at a bad time (I guess depending on news cycles when numerous bots are being spun up), they'll make you jump through hoops to verify the dang thing. It's not overly worth it, though. If you have hobbies you want to keep up with, there are alternative places outside of Twitter. It's just kind of like an all-in-one sort of gathering place, but definitely not needed. Like for fiber arts and crafting - Ravelry is wayyyy better. Pinterest, too. YouTube, etc.

That's an interesting question. I keep it open constantly and flip over every once in a while to see if anything important is happening (and important in my case is a new game announcement or new track dropping or something fun like that). My follows are mostly very "on" people who tweet like a gabillion times a day (I never tweet - only read), and most of them don't seem to be doing much complaining about it. They're just tweeting as they usually do. Funny enough, I've seen more people bothered by the announcement and arguing about it outside of the Twitterverse, like on Discord and Reddit.

I'm still not overly convinced he wants the responsibility. Being able to slide on moderation has worked thus far, and Twitter has always touted itself as some sort of free speech haven, but as has been pointed out, there are a slew of new regulations working their way through the pipeline and IF those get passed, Twitter will have to figure out their mess real quick. They just waited too long - people have been begging Jack for yearrrrrrrrrs to do a better job moderating the platform, but here we are. I don't think this part can be helped much. It happens absolutely everywhere and with everything. Twitter just gets the most attention since so many news orgs are on it and they use it to generate a ton of headlines. But essentially, if a big famous YouTuber says or does something important or controversial or stirs up drama with another one, it winds up on Twitter. If a big famous Twitch streamer says or does something important or controversial, it winds up on Reddit, and probably on Twitter. If a big famous celebrity posts a dramatic Instagram story, it winds up freaking everywhere - news, Twitter, freaking TMZ, all of it. If a well-known TikTok star does something, it'll wind up on Twitter. If they dance well enough, it'll wind up in Fortnite. Pro-Fortnite player wins millions in a tournament, it winds up on Twitter and Reddit and clips of the big win will be all over YouTube. Long story short - it's all connected, pretty much. Hell, I remember when Chrissy Teigen's Insta posts were circulating all over Twitter and then she came back to Twitter and it made headlines and trended for dayyyyyyys omg. She's one of the few people who can set every dang platform on fire simultaneously. 😂

Yeah, it's extremely exhausting. I use it for fun and learning, and there IS a lot of good stuff on there, but man, it doesn't take much for the negativity to seep in. I've BEEN pretty annoyed on a personal level with how many years have gone by and they still can't get their moderation under control. To be fair, I feel that same way about other big platforms (Twitch, especially). I'm just so over how toxic it all is and thankful for places like Discord at least, where communities there can yeet spammers and troublemakers into orbit without hesitation.

Lol exactly. I do that a lot. But this time I just got overly tired halfway in like... man I really hate talking about Twitter LOL. I could be off watching comedy vids on TikTok or something right about now.

You ever type up a lengthy response and then just totally and completely lose steam? Lol, I just don't have it in me. I was going to post about the years of Twitter's lax moderation and how it's spawned off like eleventy-billion articles and investigations and reports criticizing them for it (thanks for linking one of them, @Luna Bliss ) but I just don't feel like it anymore 😂. Lemme just do a quick tl;dr version - Twitter can't get it right. They've tried every method they could come up with to mod their massive giant of a platform and they just don't know what they're even doing anymore. They posted an application in 2018 to recruit outside experts to help them learn to mod and foster a healthy community for crying out loud. Here we are now in 2022 and things are still a hot mess. https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/twitter-health-metrics-proposal-submission.html

Very welcome! It's super cute btw. I bought one a while ago. When you enter the store, it should be to your left, along the far wall. Unless they've moved things around since I've been there, that is. Orrr if you prefer the marketplace, they do sell the individual colors and patterns on there, too. Here's the demo - https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Addams-Amy-Long-Skirt-wBelt-DEMO/9587761

Lots of different reasons, really. My original account/main is now my alt and I keep her around solely for business purposes/running my store. Others have them for privacy purposes, for photography/modeling, for roleplaying as you mentioned, some prefer to keep adult employment to one avatar and use alts for regular socializing/non-work stuff, some use them to test multi-avatar builds and animations, etc.

You rang? I'm kidding. Don't get me started on that again, LOL.

LOL I get them confused all the time! I was even sitting here for a minute like wait - is it Bumblebee?! But yeah Addams has quite a few things in that style. I love em for that. I want to say other stores do it, too, but I don't even remember. Check all the biggies - heck Blueberry is so huge now, maybe they've got some, too!

Addams has some things in some of their older lines (possibly newer, as well). Shoes/socks, tops, sweaters, pants, skirts. Check in store for a wider selection, but here are a few examples. You might also find some things at Kaithleen's, Tres Blah, and mayyyybe Seniha.

Yeah, I figured bot moderation was handled differently (probably automatically) as they seem to disappear in groups. But someone sitting down and reading through tweets and making judgment calls on what to remove/keep who to ban/not ban on a regular basis? Not happening. They're lazy as hell over there. 😂 It's why social platforms and games keep trying to train up AI/bots to handle that sort of mess. Nobody wants to spend the time or resources doing that manually. Now if a big big big verified account breaks the rules over and over and over, I suspect it'll trigger something. But again, Twitter favors labeling misinfo and stressing context and transparency over removing content entirely.

Twitter doesn't permaban lightly. Moderation is too inconsistent/lazy for that. It takes repeated TOSbreaking to even get your tweets deleted (bots not included - those do get yeeted on occasion), let alone entire accounts flushed. If someone got banned, chances are they were doing a lot more than tweeting an opposing view. The big, big bans I know of and personally saw go down years ago had to do with inciting actual violence and spreading deep, deeeeep conspiracy theories.

This too, yup! But generally speaking, it's pretty much the very same thing that happens whenever a company gets acquired, really. Employees tend to hate that sort of thing on the whole. The main difference here is they have very legitimate concerns that they'll lose the massive brands that helped support the platform all these years. And yes, like you mentioned - his reputation.