De-Escalating Social Media

We also need a button like "This does not reflect who I am as a person"

It could be a hint to the algorithm to stop pushing the content because you wouldn't want something incorrect circulating. But then people may not want to use it but also those people would be the same ones who are happy to lie in a viral tweet.

It does very much annoy me that, yeah, its always been possible to do this.

I believe Claim A! Claim A deniers are bad, smell bad, and are probably also demons!

EDIT: Welp, looks like Claim A is dubious, thanks to user so and so for setting me straight, see their explanation below.

Yeah you have always been able to do that or something very close to it on basically every forum or social media type thing ever.

But... you are probably right that if you give people a mea culpa flag as a built in part of the UI/UX, that would almost certainly spur more people to do it.

... Its still terrifying to me that a large segment of people would need such a button to exist before they would be ok doing it.

I guess this isn't a case where the sort of 'desire path' solution manifests and is then maybe formally adopted, seems like you'd have to basically social engineer humility into people.

I hate that this would probably work, in the sense that it isn't just DUH obvious to everyone already that they don't need a button specifically for this, but I also love that this would probably work.

I can imagine a 'year end wrap up' where you get to see all the stuff you said that you decided was stupid.

Then I guess just pair it with some kind of affirmative message of 'hey, you're trying to admit your mistakes, and that's probably good'.

Its less deceptive than trying to delete shit dumb stuff, as... everyone can still see you did say it, but realized it was bad.

one reason people don't admit they are wrong is because other people will shame and attack them for being wrong.

admitting you were wrong isn't consequence free. it's shameful, bad, and weak and others want to punish you for it. hence why people are incentivized to never admit they are wrong... because that often avoids those consequences and a lot of people admire someone who never admits they are wrong as strong and good and they are inspired by it.

No, that's what the edit button is for.

My only question is if piefed fixed client side ghost editing.

I heard "Hot pickle!" in a completely unrecognizable accent and have been confused ever since. Was it Mario that said that? Lakitu? Whose voice is that if not Mario's and if it is Mario... What the hell? Lol

He says it when you select a level to play.

I heard from qomwhere that it's not it's a me but itsumi, the japanese word for hero but this might be bs

Excuse me?

I don't see a problem because the troll's post will then be permanently marked as not true.

Quite often, I find that leaving a post up has value. It nukes context for the posts below it, which is bad. It's also not great if only part of a larger post is bad, since you lose all of it. Lastly, with a deleted post, it's unclear if the creator learned from it, or if they removed it to avoid the backlash.

What the hell is "mobbying"?