from the comedy-is-now-authorized! dept
This week, we kick off the most insightful facet of matters with a comment from That One particular Guy on my put up about how I however hope Twitter succeeds, wherever the remark highlights the most important single thing that may possibly get Elon to end from burning the website to the ground: having earlier his individual ego.
Step 1: Comprehend and acknowledge when YOU are the issue
From the seems of it when it may possibly not be not possible to stop the web-site from burning down the first step of that will have to have Musk to confess that he screwed up and that all the derision aimed at moderators and those people that have that as their work was grossly unfair for the reason that it turns out individuals men and women actually did/do know what they ended up speaking about.
If he can set apart his moi and confess that he was useless erroneous about moderation then it might be attainable to salvage the web page, nevertheless it is going to be a seriously uphill fight convincing the individuals who had been canned or remaining to occur back again and it is going to get a lot of Really Fine Persons offended with him.
If he can’t set aside his ego… split out the hotdogs and smores kits mainly because the area is probably to go down in flames and there is not much else any person else can do at that place but love the spectacle.
Next place was an anonymous comment on that identical write-up, in response to a comment from our resident Trump supporter, who attempted to mock the stories of chaos at Twitter by noting that he remembered “similar ‘chaos and dysfunction’ adjectives being utilized four yrs in the past to explain the White Household.” And the remark that received next location famous there may have been a really good purpose for that:
And rightfully so.
The Trump White Property was utter chaos for his whole stint in office.
And even out of business office it is chaos… To wit: his managing of delicate documents, paperwork that belong to NARA, and be sure to demonstrate why he would have categorised folders missing the files that are in fact labeled.
(and if you say that he brain-declassified them, that just proves that you have eaten the kool-aid, are putting on the tin-foil hat and possibly have Q tattooed on your ass.
Oh and you are addicted to the Trump taint odor.)
Not incredibly, the commenter he was responding to ran absent and did not come back again to react.
For editor’s choice, I have yet another nameless remark on that exact same article speaking about “good Elon” vs. “bad Elon.”
Elon is being “Good Elon” and “Bad Elon” (a classic abuser sample) and it is likely to bankrupt twitter in 2023. The advertisers who paid out the bills are not coming back unless Elon fires himself. Elon has no strategy how isolated he is in his sycophant bubble he proceeded to block the most essential spokesman for his advertisers who spend twitter’s costs.
What was incorrect with pre-Elon twitter was insufficiently loaded comments from the group for powerful moderation. That is, keep in mind the mDAU audits in which they went via samples with humans to figure out if buyers had been appropriately classified as monetizable, and were working about 95% correct?
You could classify customers responses for precision the similar way…so you’d normally have not only reviews, but also status scores for people accomplishing the reporting. And you could certainly have extra nuance (checkboxes) in the consumer reporting checkboxes. They likely could have accomplished that very last year…if not for Elon.
And our next editor’s alternative remark on the insightful facet is also about Musk and Twitter, but on a diverse tale, the place Musk suddenly made the decision that parody was no lengthier authorized on Twitter. This remark, by Christenson, was responding to an anonymous comment suggesting that Twitter’s prior administration experienced sabotaged the enterprise for Musk simply because they hadn’t secured 2023 marketing commitments previously this year at an ad convention where by all those commitments are normally created. Christenson points out that’s not precise:
Gotta disagree with you there — Twitter’s 2021 fiscal quantities have been Public ($10B earnings from advertising, missing like $500M on that, with $800M owing to a lawsuit settlement more than share selling price volatility). Especially with the consumer development, they stood to possibly make about $250M in 2022.
As to the marketing meeting, effectively, the deficiency of solutions on moderation last summertime has turned into chaos soon after the deal shut — and that is on Musk, he said pretty publicly he wanted to improve how twitter was moderated, but gave twitter no facts when queried. Advertisers very last week questioned Musk how he reconciled “no improvements to moderation” with the substantial employees cuts in the facial area of brand protection, and Musk proceeds to block the chief of the marketing convention who asked.
Twitter management did what it was intended to do … offered the company for $44B, about two times a reasonable value. Incapability to forecast Musk definitely was not part of their career this continuous 180 turning from Musk is incredibly substantially the sample of a narcissist and an abuser, maybe even a psychopath.
Anyway, considering that they now have to pay back an more billion or two of financial debt services, and they’ve kneecapped their ad income with no way to recuperate without firing the chief twit, personal bankruptcy is on its way. This even if they uncover the best moderation algorithm ever and roll it out tomorrow, beautifully.
All right, but what was amusing very last week? Turns out… it is some much more stuff about Elon Musk and Twitter! Thad took the initially location for the funniest remark by a large amount responding to rojcowles remark on the submit about how Twitter beneath Musk may possibly be violating the FTC’s consent decree by suggesting a new Elon meme primarily based on an alleged estimate from Musk’s private attorney, Alex Spira, that “Elon puts rockets into house, he not worried of the FTC.” Thad jumped in with the winner:
Elon puts rockets into place, he ain’t afraid of no ghosts.
In some strategies, what is even funnier is that afterwards in the 7 days, just after that tale and that comment arrived out, it was documented that Elon actually was favourable that Twitter ought to have “ghost employees” on the guide, and demanded an audit that Twitter staff members have been real human beings (and then fired the auditor!). So it’s possible he is scared of some ghosts.
In 2nd area on the humorous aspect, we’re continue to swimming in Musky waters, as Chris O’Donnell confirmed up to react to a remark from Diogenes on the story about Twitter’s challenges rolling out its new bluecheck process, that discussed his banning persons for parody. Diogenes notes that “Musk bans parody, but he IS a parody,” top to this retort from Chris:
Probably he did not want the competitiveness.
For editor’s choice we had a good deal of fairly humorous comments to choose from, but we’ll commence with a remark from ThatOtherOtherGuy on the publish about Twitter and the FTC consent decree, in which there had been stories that Twitter was the two desperately hoping to employ the service of back again some of the people and telling engineers they wanted to “self-certify” that what they ended up doing did not violate the consent decree (which is not at all how it performs), the remark speculated how that all went down:
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Aaaaaaaand, at last, we experienced a comment from… wait… [checks notes]… “Mike Masnick (verified)”… uh…. asserting a brand name new Techdirt attribute that I certainly was not knowledgeable of:
New Techdirt Characteristics Announcement
Just want to give all people a heads up, Techdirt will quickly be introducing an ‘Official Techdirt Icon’ on all those commenters that obtain funniest / most insightful comment of the week more than 2 periods in a calendar calendar year (icon can also be bought for $8 / thirty day period through my patreon)
I guess because that arrived from a “verified” account it have to be real. I count on it to be dwell inside of a 7 days or we’ll fire the crew utilizing it.
That is all for this 7 days!