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Users: social media is too addictive.

Twitter: we're testing out a new safe word feature to address that.

They should keep this. Randomly pick a new word each day, anybody who says it gets locked for a day.




Eventually everyone will get locked, and Twitter will be a much better place by virtue of having no users.


It'd be interesting to see Twitter adopt the old "Robot 9000" automod rules, where every tweet would have to be unique from all previous tweets system-wide or else you get a temporary ban that exponentially grows in length after every infraction.


Are you referring to /r9k/ ?

There are only 10 pages visible on 4chan, did that rule only apply to visible content or all past content aswell?


/r9k/ was actually modeled after Randall Munroe's open-source "Robot9000" automod bot for one of XKCD's IRC channels (where unoriginal users would be muted for N time, rather than banned).

The original post explaining it is here [1]. I'm not sure whether the 4chan implementation applied to just the 10 visible pages or all past comments.

Fun fact: Twitch also has an r9k mode for chat [2] (that scopes "unique messages" per-chat over a 10-minute rolling window).

[1] https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-a...

[2] https://twitter.com/twitchsupport/status/382923694864994304?...


Randomly pick a new word each day, anybody who says it gets locked for a day.

Didn't Pee Wee Herman do something like that?




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