Well gosh what a negative nancy you are, summarising things up like that!<p>Umair has, I feel, a completely valid point. Twitter is a big open service for snippets of comments. Anonymity is pretty good (excluding privileged access, e.g. law enforcement requests) so it positively encourages any and all participation, even absolute shit talking.<p>And sadly that kind of thing happens again and again, and twitter took so long to publically appear to address it that it certainly gives the impression it wasn&#x27;t something they were either anticipating or didn&#x27;t have a way to easily deal with.<p>I think his argument is fairly compelling. Unrestrained abuse of a social service will drive people away. The daily vitriol generated by gamergate (on both sides of the argument) is a pretty obvious point of reference. There are a lot of people out there that have zero interest in any sort of meaningful dialogue and why would anyone want to have to sit on the receiving end of that should they find themselves unlucky enough to be caught in those crosshairs?