This is lumping together multiple problems, but IMO a platform that tries to police wrongthink from the top down is guaranteed to fail.
For my part, I don't think anyone anywhere should be prevented from saying the dumbest things that pop into their heads; what I disagree with is giving everyone a global megaphone and then artificially removing the consequences for saying the dumbest things that pop into their heads. :)
If you have a reputation that is tied to the community in which you are participating, and your reputation affects the reach/visibility of your messages in that community, then as you behave at odds with the standards of that community, your reputation goes down, thus limiting your reach. Exactly how to implement that well is the billion dollar question, but at the heart of it all is a simple feedback loop.
> your reputation goes down, thus limiting your reach
That's a nice concept, but it is unclear how to implement this. If you have a low reputation, you can only reach X users, but if you reputation improves, you can reach 2X users? How do you set these thresholds? How do you pick the X unlucky users to receive the low-reputation tweets?
For my part, I don't think anyone anywhere should be prevented from saying the dumbest things that pop into their heads; what I disagree with is giving everyone a global megaphone and then artificially removing the consequences for saying the dumbest things that pop into their heads. :)
If you have a reputation that is tied to the community in which you are participating, and your reputation affects the reach/visibility of your messages in that community, then as you behave at odds with the standards of that community, your reputation goes down, thus limiting your reach. Exactly how to implement that well is the billion dollar question, but at the heart of it all is a simple feedback loop.