Because this will totally take care of the Nazi thing

October 29, 2018 11:24 AM

Twitter mulls removing 'like' tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate (paywalled source): "Twitter is planning to remove the ability to 'like' tweets in a radical move that aims to improve the quality of debate on the social network. Founder Jack Dorsey last week admitted at a Twitter event that he was not a fan of the heart-shaped button and that it would be getting rid of it 'soon'."

Twitter's response: As we've been saying for a while, we are rethinking everything about the service to ensure we are incentivizing healthy conversation, that includes the like button. We are in the early stages of the work and have no plans to share right now.

posted by not_the_water (7 comments total)

Josh Butler:

Users: hey can you get rid of the Nazis please

Twitter: ok sure, we've changed the stars to hearts for likes

Users: no no, zero Nazis please

Twitter: yep we're getting rid of Vine

Users: nah hey, what about the Nazis

Twitter: ok ok fine, no more likes
posted by not_the_water at 11:25 AM on October 29, 2018 [8 favorites]

I'd be good with a blue-badge Swastika that said "Verified Nazi" identifying Nazis on Twitter.
posted by chavenet at 11:28 AM on October 29, 2018 [4 favorites]

They could go further and remove the retweet counter. That would have far more impact.
posted by phooky at 11:29 AM on October 29, 2018 [2 favorites]

But then how will I know the ratio?
posted by RobotHero at 11:31 AM on October 29, 2018 [1 favorite]

I thought we were all using favorites as bookmarks.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 11:34 AM on October 29, 2018 [4 favorites]

The likes will turn back to yellow stars. Posts with a lot of stars will automatically have ((())) added. You know, just to make things easier for Twitter's core user base.
posted by tobascodagama at 11:37 AM on October 29, 2018

I think this rumor is a submarine attempt at news-cycle theft.
posted by rhizome at 11:38 AM on October 29, 2018 [1 favorite]