One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
there used to be a saying that you should focus on the needs of the user and everything will follow.
Apparently time have changed and now we are supposed to recognize that if we are not smart enough to fully grasp how a proposed feature should be fully implemented, then better say nothing.
I'm not sure I like this evolution.
Could you explain why the permanence of Twitter is a good thing per se?
For me the simple fact that people ask so loudly for an edit button is a pretty clear sign that they don't want their failed attempts at communicating permanent.
I made stupid mistakes while writing the first draft of the comment, I'm glad that there is an edit button
I prefer permanence because as long as a tweet is viewed within the original distribution method (the desktop site, mobile app), we can take tweets at face value. I also enjoy being able to link to tweets, and attach them to threads as new information develops. If I like to someone else's tweet and they edit it, that breaks the context of my hyperlink to the tweet.
I agree that people ask for this, and maybe Twitter will see it as a worthy pursuit one day. I would continue to use the platform and adjust to whatever they create. But for now, I am a "lazy" individual when it comes to interpreting information in tweets.
One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
@aminamos
I prefer permanence because [...] we can take tweets at face value
For me, if the author of the tweet wants - but cannot - edit it, it's probably because there is something wrong that happened in the communication between the author and its readers.
You know, there is a lot that could happen before you hit "Send Tweet". Between what the author meant, what he wanted to write, what he wrote, what his fingers typed, what he was forced to remove because of the arbitrary length limit, the context he was writing this, the context that its readers read it, what the readers read, how they interpret it, there are like 10 reasons to not take the tweet's content at face value.
As far as I'm concerned, you want to preserve Twitter's divine right to make those communication errors permanent.
Why?
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there used to be a saying that you should focus on the needs of the user and everything will follow.
Apparently time have changed and now we are supposed to recognize that if we are not smart enough to fully grasp how a proposed feature should be fully implemented, then better say nothing.
I'm not sure I like this evolution.
Could you explain why the permanence of Twitter is a good thing per se?
For me the simple fact that people ask so loudly for an edit button is a pretty clear sign that they don't want their failed attempts at communicating permanent.
I made stupid mistakes while writing the first draft of the comment, I'm glad that there is an edit button
I prefer permanence because as long as a tweet is viewed within the original distribution method (the desktop site, mobile app), we can take tweets at face value. I also enjoy being able to link to tweets, and attach them to threads as new information develops. If I like to someone else's tweet and they edit it, that breaks the context of my hyperlink to the tweet.
I agree that people ask for this, and maybe Twitter will see it as a worthy pursuit one day. I would continue to use the platform and adjust to whatever they create. But for now, I am a "lazy" individual when it comes to interpreting information in tweets.
For me, if the author of the tweet wants - but cannot - edit it, it's probably because there is something wrong that happened in the communication between the author and its readers.
You know, there is a lot that could happen before you hit "Send Tweet". Between what the author meant, what he wanted to write, what he wrote, what his fingers typed, what he was forced to remove because of the arbitrary length limit, the context he was writing this, the context that its readers read it, what the readers read, how they interpret it, there are like 10 reasons to not take the tweet's content at face value.
As far as I'm concerned, you want to preserve Twitter's divine right to make those communication errors permanent.
Why?