Explain twitter culture to me

Victor Mildew wrote:

OrangeRKN wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:I have no idea what the L or W thing means,

Old men posting their Ls

I feel like I'm playing that card game where no one will explain the rules, but will just tell you when you try and make an illegal move

Let's have a game of go Johnny go go go go!

Gemini73 wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:

OrangeRKN wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:I have no idea what the L or W thing means,

Old men posting their Ls

I feel like I'm playing that card game where no one will explain the rules, but will just tell you when you try and make an illegal move

Let's have a game of go Johnny go go go go!

It's like a cross between Hoover, and 8 man down!

Victor Mildew wrote:In all my time on there I've not once seen W posted as a response to any of my tweets!

Checks out

Gemini73 wrote:I've only connected in person with a few folk from what would have been my "friends list" since, but no one else.

Also the phrasing of this definitely makes it sound like you went out and punched some people you don't like

OrangeRKN wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:In all my time on there I've not once seen W posted as a response to any of my tweets!

Checks out

He's lying. He's all about getting the sweet sweet W.

I got permabanned from there. I was quoting a Shulk line from Xenoblade. The bot picked it up as a death threat (which is fair enough).

Went through the appeal process. Permabanned by automation

To be honest, I don't really miss it too much. I'd done a massive cull of the people I was following because some of them were really getting on my tits.

Squinty wrote:I got permabanned from there. I was quoting a Shulk line from Xenoblade. The bot picked it up as a death threat (which is fair enough).

Went through the appeal process. Permabanned by automation

To be honest, I don't really miss it too much.

I guess you weren't really feeling it

OrangeRKN wrote:

Gemini73 wrote:I've only connected in person with a few folk from what would have been my "friends list" since, but no one else.

Also the phrasing of this definitely makes it sound like you went out and punched some people you don't like

What I was getting at is that for so many Facebook seems to be their only social connection and anyone outside of those parameters no longer exist in their plugged-in state of mind. I've had discussions with other ex-Facebook friends who have said on briefly returning they're greeted like they've been living on another planet for the last year or so and not just down the road.

It might sound like some bonkers, cyberpunk conspiracy nonsense, but I do believe some folk simply cannot function without the likes of Facebook and social media in general and as such it's become the only way they can comfortably communicate.

OrangeRKN wrote:

Squinty wrote:I got permabanned from there. I was quoting a Shulk line from Xenoblade. The bot picked it up as a death threat (which is fair enough).

Went through the appeal process. Permabanned by automation

To be honest, I don't really miss it too much.

I guess you weren't really feeling it

Should have seen it coming really

OrangeRKN wrote:

Squinty wrote:I got permabanned from there. I was quoting a Shulk line from Xenoblade. The bot picked it up as a death threat (which is fair enough).

Went through the appeal process. Permabanned by automation

To be honest, I don't really miss it too much.

I guess you weren't really feeling it

Now it's ban time.

I've only ever used Facebook as Twitter has just never appealed to me.

That said, at one time, i had over 200 friends contacts on there and realised that i never really spoke to, or were properly friends with hardly any of them.

I therefore wielded the axe, and cut it to just 10 (who i did, and still do know well), now i just use it mostly to talk to people i actually know properly in real life, which means i have around 28 in total these days.

The added bonus in this being that my news feed was no longer filled with an endless stream of bs, and getting rid one guy who was a militant atheist felt particularly good.

Victor Mildew wrote:

OrangeRKN wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:I have no idea what the L or W thing means,

Old men posting their Ls

I feel like I'm playing that card game where no one will explain the rules, but will just tell you when you try and make an illegal move

Let's have a game of go Johnny go go go go!

Is that like Fizzbin?

Green Gecko wrote:I'm referring to the incident where I asked someone who only believes in binary sex "what about intersex people (who do exist)". I got mutilated by other people who insist on the sex binary of male/female and nothing in between.

That's because the majority of users are literal children that barely understand sex, gender and sexuality themselves. It's become a very hateful platform where many twist others' words to turn it into an 'attack' toward someone and they then get to play the victim. It's seldom a place to discuss; where genuine curiosity and innocence goes to die under an ironic bombardment of unwarranted hostility.

But yes, as choclate-milk said, Ws and Ls are wins and losses. In this example, those who post W see it as a win for Sony, selling 10 mill PS5s. Those who post L I guess don't think selling 10 mill PS5s is something to be proud of, who knows. Also W can sometimes be written as 'dub' which is short for double-U. So when people win at games they say they're 'getting them dubs'.

And I think ratio used to mean the ratio of likes to comments, but now I think it can mean a commenter getting more likes than the original tweeter.

But yeah, stay away from twitter if you're thinking of doing anything there other than following news or self-promoting.

Yeah the idea is that you say 'ratio' to a gooseberry fool post in an attempt to garner more likes than the original post, thus 'ratioing' this person. Often someone will put an amusing picture too, so you can say something like 'ratioed by this banana' for added hilarity.

more heat than light wrote:Yeah the idea is that you say 'ratio' to a gooseberry fool post in an attempt to garner more likes than the original post, thus 'ratioing' this person. Often someone will put an amusing picture too, so you can say something like 'ratioed by this banana' for added hilarity.

Ratioing has nothing to do with getting more likes than the OP - 'ratiod by this banana' just means they're posting gooseberry fool to increase the reply count and it just so happened to get more likes. Being ratioed is a post that has significantly more replies than likes and retweets - it means it's a shitty post that a LOT of people have responded to.

Well that solves that.

Can I get an F in the chat for this thread?

Twitter has a culture? My twitter feed is just full of artists and gaming stuff. I only really created my account to post switch things and now I'm just messing about with it out of boredom.

Facebook wise, made a new account about 3 or 4 years ago, deleting my old account full of photos of exs, people I hardly knew or spoke to, and people who just loved to spread drama about. I've only added people I actually know now on there and I end up just flicking through it now and again out of boredom.

Tsunade wrote:Twitter has a culture? My twitter feed is just full of artists and gaming stuff. I only really created my account to post switch things and now I'm just messing about with it out of boredom.

Facebook wise, made a new account about 3 or 4 years ago, deleting my old account full of photos of exs, people I hardly knew or spoke to, and people who just loved to spread drama about. I've only added people I actually know now on there and I end up just flicking through it now and again out of boredom.

Twitter definitely has culture.

Awful culture. But culture all the same.

There is a rampant, Kremlin-backed bot culture on Twitter which is designed to troll people on topics with tribalistic loyalties. You might look at a tweet from PlayStation that has a bunch of “Xbox better” or a tweet from Xbox that has a bunch of “PS better” replies (or in this case, W/L I guess?) and think “oh, just some dumb fanboys” but it’s more insidious than that. Often you can check the poster’s timeline and see they’re actually trolling on both sides and will often be doing it on other, unrelated topics like football teams, pop artists or politics, and they’re doing it at a pace that’s impossible for a human to actually keep up with. So why do it? What could they possibly gain from trolling everyone?

The point is to simply sow discord. It’s subtle, but if you get people arguing all the time they become unhappy. That leads to anger, to unrest, and a country fights itself from within.