There was a discussion about this article 2 years ago here and here, but I thought it’s such an interesting a novel concept full of potential that it’s worth a repost.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    462·
    1 month ago

    Unfortunately this would be a gift for stupid liars because only honest people who seek the truth would use it. It‘s a good example for a way to hell that was paved with good intentions. Beautifully naive.

  • Rose@slrpnk.netEnglish
    25·
    1 month ago

    What I need is “this post really seemed like a good idea when I was drunk, but in retrospect, maybe it’s not”.

  • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 month ago

    It seems like it should be unnecessary, like we already have ways of conveying this sentiment, so why have a button with such a narrow function?

    But on the other hand, making it normal for people to admit their mistakes online? That would be a huge step forward. And if there’s a button there for it, it would get used.

    • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      It could be a hint to the algorithm to stop pushing the content because you wouldn’t want something incorrect circulating. But then people may not want to use it but also those people would be the same ones who are happy to lie in a viral tweet.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      It does very much annoy me that, yeah, its always been possible to do this.

      I believe Claim A! Claim A deniers are bad, smell bad, and are probably also demons!

      EDIT: Welp, looks like Claim A is dubious, thanks to user so and so for setting me straight, see their explanation below.

      Yeah you have always been able to do that or something very close to it on basically every forum or social media type thing ever.

      But… you are probably right that if you give people a mea culpa flag as a built in part of the UI/UX, that would almost certainly spur more people to do it.

      … Its still terrifying to me that a large segment of people would need such a button to exist before they would be ok doing it.

      I guess this isn’t a case where the sort of ‘desire path’ solution manifests and is then maybe formally adopted, seems like you’d have to basically social engineer humility into people.

      I hate that this would probably work, in the sense that it isn’t just DUH obvious to everyone already that they don’t need a button specifically for this, but I also love that this would probably work.

      I can imagine a ‘year end wrap up’ where you get to see all the stuff you said that you decided was stupid.

      Then I guess just pair it with some kind of affirmative message of ‘hey, you’re trying to admit your mistakes, and that’s probably good’.

      Its less deceptive than trying to delete shit dumb stuff, as… everyone can still see you did say it, but realized it was bad.

  • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    I need to talk about the Mario thing. The first time we heard him speak was N64, when he said “It’s a me, Mario,” with an accent that is clearly not from New York or New Jersey. And now he’s all of a sudden not Italian?

    • AstralPath@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      I heard “Hot pickle!” in a completely unrecognizable accent and have been confused ever since. Was it Mario that said that? Lakitu? Whose voice is that if not Mario’s and if it is Mario… What the hell? Lol

      He says it when you select a level to play.

      • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Ha, I used to love this show as a kid, so thanks for that. Felt like a fever dream.

    • polotype@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      1 month ago

      I heard from qomwhere that it’s not it’s a me but itsumi, the japanese word for hero but this might be bs

      • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        That’s interesting, apparently false, itsumi means something else that I forgot in the time it took me to swipe back over to Lemmy here, but I do like the line of thinking.

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
    12·
    1 month ago

    Personally, I don’t like it because of the reason it would need be needed in the first place, mobbying against those that would find it useful.

    I think those that partake mobbying should be exposed and sued. And who knows, amid the process, maybe the suer could find out multiple of these accounts belonging to the same IP or even ID. And then, after some successful legal actions, mobbying should shrink a lot if not stop altogether.