Why does society seem to be falling apart, even though it's not?

[andrewducker]

Over on Andy Ducker's Links I linked to a story about Robin Williams' daughter leaving social networks because she was receiving abuse after her father died

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[octopoid_horror]

If twitter didn't show you how many people had retweeted a post, I bet that kind of behaviour would drop away very sharply.

Admittedly, so would a chunk of the userbase probably.

For those who use twitter to be funny or to deliberately try to shock people, retweets are your score.

[soon_lee]

Wise thoughts.

I don't know what the solution is either.

[matrixmann]

It'll be a question of when courts start to make decisions that call maintainers to responsibility against their customers.

[skington]

I just checked, and there are surprisingly few Robin Williams jokes on Sickipedia.

The only vaguely good one was "Right, now everyone in Vietnam gets to have a lie-in".

[andrewducker]

Ok, that made me laugh.

[snarlish]

this made me laugh as well. yesterday i had a dark chuckle with the guy in front of me at the canteen vending machine, who got a'Share a Coke with ROBIN' bottle...

[snarlish]

I found myself, although hard-skinned to internet nightmare folk, a bit shocked by the Zelda thing, as well as a few vile 'tweets' back at Gilbert Gottfried's small tribute. Some bits of society I really don't want to be connected with.

Think you nailed it on the head with 'leverage'.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I really don't want to be associated with them either.

But I'm glad that it's such a tiny number of people.