Micro-posting (a la Mastodon) apps offer an interface optimalised for short text and image posts, which seem to work better for chatty exchanges than for fruitful long form argumentation. Yet most of us have fallen for the temptation to let casual chats become friendship-ending arguments.
What if we could tag a reply as "debate" - or the author could - and it greyed out the reply button on that post. Obviously this would be a setting that can be toggled on and off.
@strypey Being unable to say anything in response to one's argument doesn't sound like a "debate" to me, that's just going to be abused thoroughly to ruin people's days.
If your friendship ends with someone over a silly post on a social media network, I'd argue it is better to simply find better people to be friends with.
@tyil
> Being unable to say anything in response to one's argument doesn't sound like a "debate" to me
As I said, this would be a setting that can be toggled on and off by the receiver. So they can choose whether or not to engage in contentious debates in a short form medium. I ran out of characters to specify "by the receiver", but I thought that was obvious given the context.
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