January 8th, 2021

Let's briefly consider some alternatives that would allow the accounts of government officials to stay up while making it harder for them to incite riots.

To be clear—I'm not proposing the following ideas. I haven't thought through the likely incentive paths in depth.

Various simple possibilities:
• no follows; can still view their posts on homepage (I don't think this would do much)
• no retweets - kind of interesting; might help w smaller folks but not Trump
• no replies (pretty easily broken? just have an account QT & discuss there)

I mostly don't think those would help much in this situation, and they might even just straightforwardly polarize things further without much benefit, if a demagogue's loyal followers just check their profile daily but other folks can't see what they're up to as easily.

Hmm... what about delays?

First idea was a delay where people would have to wait 10s or 1min before reading the demagogue's tweets.

But what about a write delay? If official violates certain rules, they have a delay instituted on all of their future tweeting.
twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1262772324119588868

first couple posts were great

then I was talking with Sarah McManus and when she heard me articulate a recent insight she asked me to schedule a showtime for that, but I didn't yet have a piece of writing I felt satisfied with—that I would genuinely rather publish than nothing. So I had nothing to readily schedule... so I kept putting off scheduling anything.

Then I posted something else that I'd already tweeted, without even queuing it up in advance, but definitely coming from the same spirit as the showtime vibe.

But then I had another piece of writing that was kind of a follow-on to the previous one, and I sort of wanted to publish as like, the next post... but I wasn't sure if it was ready... but in the meantime I didn't publish anything else.

Meanwhile, that broke my weekly review maybe, because I was trying to do showtime schedulings during the weekly review

I tried fixing that by changing my weekly review prompt from just "schedule a showtime if there isn't one already" to multiple questions

> Blog post showtime—status?

> Pick a piece of writing that could be published as-is, & schedule it

> Ideate about a few other topics that aren't quite ready to go live. Maybe make roam pages for them if you haven't already...

yearly review mishap