heroboof

Ough im on. Webbed site.

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bcj
@bcj

they recently revealed that only ~10% of users average 3 tweets a week so really they should be giving that message any time you make a second tweet in a day


bcj
@bcj

I think a site where everyone posted like me would be a fucking nightmare. way too many posts and replies. not enough long posts or art posts or high-effort posts


prophetgoddess
@prophetgoddess

killers

the kinds of people who get all their kicks through quote tweet dunks and arguments. to the killer, nothing tastes sweeter than owning someone and watching them shrink and transform into a corn cob.

achievers

the posters who are constantly trying to do numbers. can be further subdivided into the goofers and the thinkers. goofers always have a killer joke about any new current event, they stay on top of the zeitgeist and sum it up as wittily as possible in 240 characters. thinkers might be writing long threads or high effort posts, or trying to have incisive serious takes in a shareable format.

EDIT: @porglezomp asked where writers and artists and other creative types fit into this schema. this is a good question! i think they are achievers. richard bartle expanded his taxonomy of player types with an additional axis, implicit/explicit, and i think artists are explicit achievers, or "planners," as bartle calls them, while the people i described originally in this post are implicit achievers, or "opportunists." the opportunists will do whatever the site they're on rewards with big numbers. the planners set their own goals (the completion of creative works) and achieve them.

socializers

the reply guys. they rarely make too many posts of their own, but they often chime in on their friends posts. when they do post it's about normie shit like what they had for dinner or a movie they went and saw or that they went to the beach today. they're only on twitter to see what their pals are up to and they don't care about discourse.

explorers

the css criminals. those constantly pushing the bounds of what can be done on the site. when a new feature gets released, they're the first to test its limits. they may do numbers off the back of the jokes they make by exploring, but they're in it for the love of the game.


heroboof
@heroboof

i think i'm probably a combo of socializer and (explicit) achiever.


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in reply to @prophetgoddess's post:

I think you need space in between socializers and explorers for artists/writers/etc. who are just making their stuff. Doesn’t need to push the boundaries of the site, they’re just making things. I think this makes up a big important chunk of posting that’s being neglected by this classification

ok so fwiw i stole this classification schema from richard bartle, it's a very old way of classifying players of online games, dating back to multi-user dungeons. i think i would classify artists and writers as achievers. bartle later suggested expanding his schema with an additional "implicit/explicit" axis which would add two sub-types to each existing player type. i think the achievers i describe in the post are "opportunist" type achievers while artists and writers are "planner" type achievers.

What about the people who post voluminous technical infodumps despite no oe apparently having asked for that?

Which reminds me, I need to write another post to finish up that one series I started around Thanksgiving...

I think there's probably a sub-category of explorers who are there to dig through what is even on the site and go 'yo look what i found'. kind of like how dril sometimes goes and digs up accounts with funny names that haven't posted in twelve years

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