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posted by martyb on Friday September 28 2018, @11:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the Weibos-wobble-but-they-don't-fall-down? dept.

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002976/weibos-most-influential-users-can-now-silence-their-critics

Beginning Thursday, Weibo accounts with more than 100,000 followers will have the ability to silence their critics: If you leave a comment on a post from one of these accounts, and that account blocks you, you’ll be banned from commenting for three days.

The Weibo Administrator account announced the trial function on Wednesday. “If a user’s comment is deleted by a blogger, and their account is also blocked by the blogger, their comment function will be suspended throughout the site for three days,” reads the company’s statement, which also clarifies that affected users will still be able to retweet and write their own posts.

Weibo says the temporary commenting ban function will first be available to bloggers with over 100,000 followers for a trial phase, and then, depending on feedback and results, it will gradually expand to verified users, paying members, and finally all users. According to Weibo’s most recently announced figure in August, the site has over 430 million monthly active users — more than the combined population of the U.S. and the U.K.

More details are available in Weibo's FAQ.

[NOTE: Links are to pages written in Chinese or may require a login. Google Translate may prove useful. --Ed.]


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 28 2018, @02:29PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 28 2018, @02:29PM (#741336)

    They're intelligent mammals that seem to have the capability of language. They are capable of giving consent!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 28 2018, @04:22PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 28 2018, @04:22PM (#741396)

    Unless they're drunk.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday September 28 2018, @05:19PM (2 children)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday September 28 2018, @05:19PM (#741429) Journal

      Is MDMA OK? [soylentnews.org]

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      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 28 2018, @08:37PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 28 2018, @08:37PM (#741528)

        No! You date rapist! I thought we covered this! MDMA has no other use [nytimes.com] than date rape. It was developed [wikipedia.org] by an incel conspiracy in 1912, because they hate women because they can't get laid.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 29 2018, @12:33PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 29 2018, @12:33PM (#741769)

          That article has nothing about the effect of MDMA on the common octopussy. Shame, wikipedia, shame.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Friday September 28 2018, @05:25PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Friday September 28 2018, @05:25PM (#741431)

      You do not want to try to get the whale drunk.
      Really, you do not want. Their mouth can hold up to 90 cubic meters (per wiki) of liquid. That's one hell of a bar tab.