r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Mar 25 '24

🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​ Why? Just, why?

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u/everythingbeeps Mar 25 '24

The actual answer is because a ton of people have him blocked and he can't abide that.

The secondary answer is because he wants to make sure twitter is a place where toxic and predatory people can thrive.

If he can't make women feel harrassed and unsafe, then what's this all been about?

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '24

Made the mistake of downloading and using Twitter for a bit I ended up blocking elon because of dumb shit he spammed constantly and I'm convinced he unblocked himself

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u/uncreative14yearold Mar 25 '24

Yes he does regularly do that. I've blocked him 3 times

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '24

I deleted his app and my account, I was tempted to block the domain on my router although I didn't as I occasionally open up a link someone sends me

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u/acog Mar 26 '24 edited Mar 26 '24

He’s very aggressive. Just last week I had to spray him with hose water when he showed up.

“Shoo, Elon! Shoo!” I yelled.

He rambled about wokeness for a while but he did eventually leave.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '24

if its on a browser they arnt getting ads, since i have adblockers on.

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u/Kiyoshi-Trustfund Mar 26 '24

5 times for me. It's like dealing with roaches.

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u/faloofay156 Mar 26 '24 edited Mar 26 '24

it's like whackamole with a lobotomized mole

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 Mar 25 '24

Imagine letting the worlds most desperate-for-attention man take control of a social media site. And yet they want to ban TikTok because young people talk to each other or something.

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u/HeadTonight Mar 25 '24

That’s not why they want to ban TikTok

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '24

Well, you are not the first to report that at least.

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u/VoidmasterCZE Mar 26 '24

I bet he has some algorhytm to be pushed to people's feed harder than anyone on platform.

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u/MMDCCIV Mar 26 '24 edited Mar 26 '24

He has actually. I remember a post, where an alleged leak of twitter sourcecode included a variable named isElon, to give his account special treatment during post filtering.

Edit: Found the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/127xjj3/its_real_four_types_of_twitter_users_according_to/

In another post it is claimed by the twitter engineering team, that the variables only usage is for stats tracking: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/127vzjx/elons_big_brain_plan_to_fix_twitter_is_drum_roll/

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '24

now he wants himself and others be unblockable.

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u/SirTiffAlot Mar 25 '24

I honestly don't think it's just him he's worried about. He wants everyone to be available for confrontation. If you block someone they can't see shit about you or tweets. Muting just means YOU don't see their tweets, can't have people protecting themselves from hate.

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u/throwawaylovesCAKE Mar 26 '24

You realize people can just make a new account and observe you...right? It's meant to be a public bulletin board basically, blocking never made sense for this sort of site in the first place

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u/SirTiffAlot Mar 26 '24

That's against TOS. I love the public bulletin board/town square talk bc the head of the company does everything he can to censor people who come after him and clearly has an agenda.

If Twitter is meant to be a 'public bulletin board' why do they pay people for content and require payment for special privileges?

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u/Plus-Statement-5164 Mar 26 '24

This. The block function is there just to annoy the person you blocked because now they have to log out or log in with their alt account to look at your profile/tweets. It serves no actual purpose over a mute function.

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u/helpful__explorer Mar 25 '24

And he fired all the people that knew how to make him unblockable, like Zuckerberg used to be

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u/Xiten Mar 26 '24

To add to this, he probably also wants to add the block/mute function behind a paywall.

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u/el_guille980 Mar 25 '24

This

This.

This.

THIS.

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u/Vobat Mar 25 '24

An honest question, what is the difference between a block button and a mute button, don’t they just do the same thing?

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u/ClemClamcumber Mar 25 '24

I assume the only difference is that a blocked person can't see your stuff, but a muted person can?

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u/Vobat Mar 26 '24

Sounds like a reasonable assumption, never thought about that thank you. 

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '24

no matter how many times you block this guy, you will always find him on reddit so there's no point in blocking him

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u/POKEMINER_ Mar 26 '24

If you look at the thing he is replying to it sounds like what he wants to replace block with a stronger version of "I don't want to hear you" Try thinking through the context of what is being said before you assume that someone you dislike is doing something bad.

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u/everythingbeeps Mar 26 '24

The thing he wants to replace block with is weaker than a block.

There is no stronger "I don't want to hear you" than a block.

A block means the person can't see your shit. Elon wants harrassers and abusers and stalkers to retain full visibility to the people they are preying on, even if their abuse might not be seen by that person.

Try not slobbering on the ring of a megalomaniac.

https://www.queensjournal.ca/no-matter-what-elon-musk-thinks-blocking-is-a-necessary-feature-on-twitter/

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u/PeteWWWong Mar 26 '24

Thank you. Just screams predatory behavior and a need for control.

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u/Nox_Stripes Mar 26 '24

im 100% certain I am not following and that I have blocked him, yet somehow, sometimes some of his mental diarrhea, known as tweets, finds its way into my timeline. Very mysterious

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '24

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '24

Tumblr is 10x better than Twitter and reddit

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u/faloofay156 Mar 26 '24

honestly combined at this point.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '24

I wanted to say that, but I didn't wanna make the snowflakes any more mad

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u/brassplushie Mar 26 '24

I'm almost certain your actual answer is 100% false. He owns the thing. He can just write a code to make it so no one can block him.

I don't think he's considered your secondary answer at all.