Block / Ignore feature would be useful, PLEASE
Block / Ignore feature so you can't see certain users / other users can't see you on Twinkle. There's seriously some ignorant people that should not be using the internet, and I really don't want dudes messaging me for nudes.
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alright folks, i'm happy to report that Twinkle 1.2 is going to the App Store for review on Monday. Hopefully it'll be live just a few days later.
I’m psyched
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Inappropriate?Excellent point. Consider it added to the list of feature requests for the next release after 1.1
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Just a question, Is there anyway to create a different build of Twinkle.app? Specifically a version with a banhammer. Perhaps not a complete ban but maybe the ability to log the user and kick them off for a day to cool off? I'm usually on late at night and since there aren't many people on I set my distance to 1000 miles. I'm seeing a LOT of abuse. Vulgar pics and just terrible things being said in general. =/ There is a new app in the app store that would allow people to email their UDID so they can be added to AdHoc. Since AdHoc allows 100 devices you could have 1 or 2 people on each coast and a few overseas keeping the community a little safer. Unfortunately, when it comes to social apps people need to be reminded that they can't run amok =/ -
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Inappropriate?Thank you. Some dude messaged me and his icon was his wiener. :(
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Inappropriate?This guy won't stop sending me direct messages because I won't talk to him. This is why we need it, as well as for people in the nearby feed.
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I was getting messages all the time from locals until I turned the gps locator off. So that's not true, you can get messages from anyone that can see you. -
Inappropriate?I agree! Already, some people are posting insults or sending inappropriate messages that no one else wants to read. I know with popularity comes this sort of stuff but blocking would be a welcome feature.
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Inappropriate?This is a good idea definately - there is one guy who is just insulting everyone in a 10 mile radius I think! Eskimowolves, I think his name was.. it would be good if we could flag users, not just block them from our account - if a user gets enough flag they get their account looked at and blocked if necessary?
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Inappropriate?I received a photo attached to a direct message with some kid exposing himself and the text just said "?". his name is aperfectjoint, from CT.
BLOCK HIM, please.
I’m annoyed, grossed-out
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Inappropriate?I agree - there is a user by the name of J2theZ who is currently flat out abusing people. And while I am happy to watch it go by it is incredibly revolting and insulting. In fact being married to a police officer here in Australia makes me wonder whether what he is doing is criminal.
I’m annoyed, frustrated
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Inappropriate?Twinkle has amazing potential.. like, AMAZING potential! but it needs this block feature liek YESTERDAY :(
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Inappropriate?I am just adding my name to the list of people who want this feature. Some kid talked about wanting me dead tonight. I don't know this kid, I don't know where the venom came from.
I really enjoy talking to people on twinkle. They automatically have an interest we all share, the iPhone or iPod. I've received help and answers to questions as well as interesting conversations. But having someone attack you out of the blue, call you a bitch and a fat pig, say they want you dead... it's a bummer to say the least. -
Inappropriate?theres a guy in Sydney who keeps trying to chat up every female on twinkle.. hard to follow conversation with 50 plus messages in row
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I know exactly who you are talking about and he has killed my local feed. I just don't bother looking at it when I know this guy has flooded it. -
Inappropriate?Chris,
Any eta on the blocking update? The "nearby" function at the current point is just about worthless.
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Inappropriate?I keep getting messages of pictures of things on men I don't want to see. Also, phone number from a creepy guy and so many requests for me to "open my legs" (my userpic is a picture of shins.. I'm not putting my face on twinkle at this point.) It's annoying as hell, but I LOVE the local feature..
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Inappropriate?Blocking is in 1.2, I can confirm that for sure :) There are still other features being built into 1.2 before we release it though...
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Inappropriate?I agree with everyone on this, some people are just plain nasty and while I can block via the website, I can't via Twinkle.
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Inappropriate?Dudes send me weiner pics all the time. One actually said, "Can we f*ck?" Ewwww....then one actually said that I should get off twinkle if I didn't like that people asked me inappropriate things. WTF?? Some people are just too stupid to use the internet, they should be banned permanently.
I’m too through...
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Inappropriate?I'm not surprised you're frustrated at that, it's highly inapproriate given that there are younger users posting. There does seem to be a fairly high level of obscenity and general nastiness being posted and some of the pictures are either nasty or just plain sad - who really wants to see a guy with his underpants on his head?
On a slightly different note, I am still being followed by obvious spammers. As I mainly use Twinkle, it often takes time and several steps for me to 1. find out they're following me 2. block said spammer 3. report them
I’m disgusted
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Inappropriate?Ok, how about an ETA?
Has the new update even been uploaded for processing on the app store yet?
I’m frustrated
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you can hit the home button and power button simultaneously to take a screen capture in your camera roll, just fyi. -
you can hit the home button and power button simultaneously to take a screen capture in your camera roll, just fyi. -
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Inappropriate?I wanted to say I like the blocking idea.... but the interface didn't like my E-mail address and password that I used for Twinkle... I've double-checked it. Not sure what the problem is there... unless I need a ***new*** sign in for these boards.... [added after trying that.....] which it seems I do. [smile]
I’m happy at future changes, bleech about some current things
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Inappropriate?Hey guys, I'm sitting here at tapulous head quarters and the people here say that if you have a problem with offending twinkle users you ought to email support@tapulous.com with their User ID and they'll take action to make them stop.
I’m frustrated that it had to come to this.
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You are not telling us anything new. It was announced that blocking would be an option in the new version over 3 weeks ago. What we need to know (and can't seem to get a reply from anyone from Tapulous about) is when the new version will be released to the App store for review, because we all know once they send it to Apple it takes anywhere from 2-3 weks to be approved. -
Inappropriate?Dear: Chris Clark.
Okay I would like to address the concerns on this matter in regards to my posts. I had never once ever directed any of my question to anyone specifically. I have many friends which are females that get direct sexual advances on twinkle and pictures which contain explicit content which the majority of the men even those on here complaining about the matter are also doing such acts behind the scene. I also understand that many of my posts were not appropriate and accept that, but on the other hand I have other individuals which have brought to my attention which I will not use names on here to secure thier identity on Twinkle that have notified me of such behaviors such as: request for naked pictures, and also individual by the name of Mr.Tiger which also uses abusive language on other individuals by calling them "pedophile" in a public setting. I was extremely bothered by the fact that an email was sent to me notifiying me of a "final warning" as if such warning had been given to me previously. If someone would do his or her due diligence in regards to a wide range of frequent misuse of this application which I like to call it and many would prefer to call it "Community" you will find yourself with a severe problem of minors, men and women posting pictures of themselves such as "skank" as an example G-strings shots of herself and vaginal shots.
I agree such policies should be established and enforced but it should be clear to everyone that logs into this application and be posted or addressed prior to entering into the blog/forum areas. I also think that a credit card system should be consider as part of your pledge to the environment which everyone of you have to agree to maintain. I also think an age verification should also be addressed since minors are an issue in many cases in regards to myspace and other website in the past. I also think that with the popularity of this application you should consider creating different areas which conversation are a selection of choice and particular conversations are held and accepted.
As I read many of your concerns such as the example Jessica_BM used I'm a grain of salt within the problem of misuse of this application. I would also like to mentioned that Richard Thornton must have posted this prior to my conversation with him on Twinkle since I cleared any doubts or concerns he had with my choice of posts. The person which indentified himself as "stalfus" I believe your screen name is Taley on Twinkle which friends of mine mentioned that you were taking credit for this particular post on here so I would address that you made first contact and asked me "to go over and you would show me a good time", shortly after you continued to send me message to come to some conclusion that I would also be "gay" so if I also recieved an email for my behavior and I accept it. I also feel that it should also be addressed to that particular person "Taley" for homosexual advances which I felt threatened by and which also gets addressed in the email which I received that states if you would not consider appropriate to say in person you should not say it.
If anyone did feel uncomfortable please use this post as an indication of my apology to all. Chris if you feel the need to address any concerns of any kind I used the same name as I do on twinkle because I have no reason to hide so as the email was sent earlier to me you probably can find me and send me any question you may have.
I’m concerned with the rules being enforced on a wide range.
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I agree with J2theZ, I've been following what goes on, I'm a "usual" on twinkle, and J2theZ is the least of the problems. I've had to encourage one underage woman to remove her naked pic from her avatar and I've seen others post very suggestive material, I don't appreciate seeing that since it could mean jail time.
If you want to enforce policies, then you need to have people on the site 24/7, the abusers, such as MrTiger are obvious. I'm assuming that MrTiger got a warning, he was very nice for a couple of days, but then I saw him today calling people names and tormenting them.
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" I also feel that it should also be addressed to that particular person "Taley" for homosexual advances which I felt threatened by and which also gets addressed in the email which I received that states if you would not consider appropriate to say in person you should not say it. "
I find it perplexing that you would find anything he said to you as threatening. Being gay is not a threat. I also don't know what makes you think he wouldn't have said what he did in person.
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I have address my concerns with my prior post but the individual which I indicate on my post continues to send me messages and also follows my every post. I got a message from this individual at 8:00pm. I want this to stop immediately. I will like to have an email sent to this indivdual with the same guideline. If this person continues to message me I will flood this forum with request for someone to take action.
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Inappropriate?The individual screen name is Taley and he used a name on here "stalfos" to post a complain about my post. I want an email sent to him with a final warning for immediate banned.
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Inappropriate?I continues to recieve messages from this guy "taley" stating that he feels satisfied by the email sent to me and glorifying it. I want someone to take immediate action and banned this individual because he is only using this as a leverage and popularity contest on this application.
If he continues then I will also continue the abuse towards him. I will accept any result from this but if he does not stop messaging me then I will consider that acceptable and I will continue with my abusive comments.
Chris please look into this matter.
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Inappropriate?It continues and I will accept it and responsed to his comments in 24hrs which provides anyone from this application to address the issue.
The individual not only does he continue to bad mouth me on PM but the individual lives in the same area and also used a picture of himself which is not very smart from his point of view.
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Inappropriate?So I sent an email to the support email which is stated above.
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Inappropriate?@Everyone - The whole idea is that the community shouldn't need to be policed, monitored, or age verified. Think of it as a public place -- if you wouldn't do/say things on a public street corner, then you shouldn't do it on Twinkle. Of course, in any large community there will be a few people that aren't as community friendly as others.
That said, we have added user blocking into the next release of Twinkle. In the next release, you can easily block a user and never again see their messages. That will also work on another level -- if a certain user is blocked by a large number of people, we can be notified to take action.
The next release of Twinkle is scheduled to be submitted to Apple in a few weeks, so until its release - please ignore the obscene and disorderly.
Thanks,
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Inappropriate?The Grand Cricket:
Thank you for pointing out something that has already been addressed through an email which I received this morinng. You also make a valid point in regards to homosexuals but when I get an invitation from another man to come over his house for a good time in a sexual way I do take it offensive, so yes to answer your quesiton I do find it a problem.
I also see your one of his friends so its understanable that you would defend him on here, so like ed mentioned until the ignore or block feature comes out with the new update just ignore me and continue with your life.
I also would like to point the fact that within 24hrs I have also complied and accepted any responsiblities for my action on Twinkle and if you could find any offensive comments made by me within the last day or so I would personally delete the application myself.
Again you have the power to press " stop following" and you would not find the need to hear my comments. I see that the two people which find me offensive are the only two individual which PM me all the time.
Have a good night and don't lose any sleep on this, since it looks like you guys keep a log of my past posts.
I’m amused
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First off, I have no idea what your email said nor do I have anything to do with it.And I don't care to hear about it at this point. Second, you were the one who started making sexual references and physically threatening him. So *deal* Third, I *never* followed you, and that's part of the problem. It's hard to ignore offesive tweets when more than half of them come from the same person in nearby. If I had the option to filter you, I would have done so long ago. -
Inappropriate?What I find sad is how J2theZ and other "adults" seem to be acting like 14 year old kids. I'm just thankful that J2theZ is located across the country from me so I don't have to listen to him in my nearby area.
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Robert my main concern is with the exploitation of some of the younger members of the community, and of the pictures of underage women that constitute a federal offense. I've also seen damaging verbal abuse. I'm sorry to hear that you don't share the same desire to place protective measures for these people. As an "Adult" it is our responsibility to actvely protect the younger members of the community. -
Robert its sad that you do not agree with the idea for a safer environment and the points I made in regards to improvements. I do not disagree that my action is the past were not acceptable but I think we are beyond that point and lets move on. -
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Inappropriate?I think it's hilarious that j2thez is trying to sound eloquent now that someone is harassing him on twinkle.
I’m amused
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Everyone has an opinion and I never once brought anything that was directed to me until now and if the individual which open the discussion about my abusive behavior does not also fall into the same category then Twinkle should have a 24hr monitor to ensure that all comply. -
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No get it right I only received one email from the application today and I complied. I just suggested that if rules do apply “we” the users need to see them and agree to terms before entering into the blog environment. I also added that other measures should be taken in regards to other matter such as young individual under the age of 18 should also be protected because as one individual stated its a federal offense to interact with minors in a sexual environment which Robert Basil disagreed as an “Adult” -
Okay. And I'm saying, why are you still talking about it? It's clear you're just being wordy and throwing a temper tantrum because you're not getting your way, well guess what nobody is. I'm unhappy with the client as of current also, but you don't see me replying every 5 seconds to this post.. AND I'm the one who started it. -
You make a valid point Ohhoe but I also wanted to address that If I recieved an email from this application everyone involved also should fall into the same category and have an email sent to them. I want a fair system not an automated email like the one I got in regards to breaking the rules of the community.
I'm a very determine individual and I drive to make my point and address them on this forum as much rights as you. If it take several post before I get my points across and heard from the individual which work for this application then its in my best interest to show my dissatisfaction of disparity to enforce the rules. -
But what you're saying ISN'T EVEN MAKING SENSE. Just because you keep on commenting here and trying to sound educated doesn't mean the twinkle staff is going to magically wave a wand and make everyone else who acts disgustingly be in trouble also.
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Inappropriate?I can say one postive note from all of this: Stalfos "aka Taley" stopped sending me PM so I think my job is complete here. I hope that this application continues to improve its security factors and provides a clean enviroment which I think I failed in that aspect as a novice on this application and learned that strange individual even though disagree will follow your every step and be amused.
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PLEASE just stop commenting on this post. I'm following it because I want to find out when the problem is actually resolved and I don't want an email every time you make a reply whining. -
This now officially Engrish. Look up what some of those words mean before you exceed your grasp of the language in full view like this. lol -
Since you started the thread it also makes you the person which determines who responds to this conversation your full of shit. -
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Please shut up. People posted a screen shot of you with an icon of a naked chick talking about sex, YOU WERE ASKING FOR IT. -
Inappropriate?JESUS....J2theZ. We GET IT you were harassed even though you were in fact a harasser! Leave this post open for actual updates on the release of the product. I have gotten at least 27 email updates because of this foolishness. Fade out please...thanks
I’m annoyed as hell...
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Lianne as long as I recieve notifcation of a reply post from Stalfos " Taley" I also continue to raise my comments on here. It must be a fair game make sure to make those same comments to that individual. -
SHUT UP J2THEZ JESUS CHRIST. You can't even speak english correctly enough to make a valid point, some people want actual updates on the product and not to read your incoherent bitching. -
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Inappropriate?Thats fine and I accepted full responsiblities for my action but my point tonight was directed to Stalfos aka Taley and individual like him that like the rule enforce but also like to break them.
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Inappropriate?Time for me to unsubscribe from this topic so I don't have to listen to J2theZ whine anymore.
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Good Point I just did that since I was also getting emails from this thread. Go to sleep old man. -
I have just done the same and J2theZ, .you need to stop insulting people. For the record, I am certain that I am old enough to be your mother. -
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Inappropriate?Taley why are you mad at the world?
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Inappropriate?Mods, please lock this thread. unfortunately, there is no way in which you can report a user at this point. I am unsubscribing from this topic, because as far as I am concerned, everything that needs to be said was said before JtotheZ started posting.
I’m annoyed at how this thread turned out.
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I'm not happy about how this topic has progressed, either, but I am okay with a little messiness if it ultimately gets us to a productive endpoint: where users get what they want and the company is happy to get them there. It sounds like the Tapulous folks agree that blocking is something that can and should be instituted. It sounds doable. -
Inappropriate?What is the matter with you guys?? I do not appreciate waking up to so many emails that amount to a cat fight. Please stick to the subject, if you want to bitch about each other do it somewhere else.
Sticking to the subject, I can't wait for this feature so I don't have to look at inappropriate pictures/posts from certain users
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thank you so much! can you just throw that in 1.1.1 and get it to me tomorrow :) im VERY annoyed by all the 15 yearolds around all trying to act older and get in each others pants. there is a child by the name of 'alex's ipod touch' who has taken it upon himself to call everyone who posts a 'bitch.' im not really offended, its just annoying. 90% of the people near me dont do anything but reply to people... kind of missing the point of what twitter is. http://www.grabup.com/uploads/bcf4311... -
Christopher, twinkle is a different type of application than say, twitterific, at least from my understanding. Twinkle is MADE to have conversations with people within a certain radius of you, because those updates don't go to the main twitter feed (unless you set it to.) personally, I only use Twinkle to converse with other people near by, not to update my regular twitter. -
Inappropriate?Is that update out? There's nothing in the UK store
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Inappropriate?Right, I got a bit worried when it wasn't listed in my updates. Looks good!
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Inappropriate?A BLOCK function is a MUST for Twinkle. With Nearby sometimes you get someone posting non stop every minute and you can only see their messages as everyone else's have been pushed away. We need BLOCK ASAP. Then a list to manage blocked users so they could be unblocked.
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Inappropriate?We've also noticed the need. As you can see in the screenshot above, it has been coded and will be in the next release.
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Inappropriate?thanks so much, really looking forward to getting it where i can find actually interesting people looking to do more than have sex with each other and curse to look cool. i imagine my block list will get pretty long pretty quick! :)
I’m anticipating
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Inappropriate?I thought I would stop by and see if Twinkle has added the blocking function yet.
I got tired of waiting aand moved to Twittelator a few weeks ago. It has a TON of options and has had 3 updates since the Twinkle block function was promised.
Sorry Tapulous, but Twittelator kicks Twinkles ass.
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And yes, Twittelator now has a "Nearby" and a block function so no need to use Twinkle anymore.
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Inappropriate?Sorry we lost you Robert! I hope you give us another shot after the update :)
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Inappropriate?Twittelator cannot have a Nearby functionality, because they are just a twitter client and twitter does not store the location of the tweets. What they try do to is to use the location field of the twitter account. But this has nothing do to with where the tweet was written. Take Twitteriffic: They update the location field in your Twitter account every post, when you click on the little icon. For Twittelator, this means, that every tweet this person writes during his whole life now gets displayed on this new location. This of course is nonsense. Friday I tweeted from the Metallica concert in Berlin. Twittelator would display these feeds now located at my home. Twinkle works different in that it saves the location for every tweet you write. So if I look at the nearby now, I see the tweets wrote near my home, at work I see the tweets written near my work and if I go to the to O2 World arena, I'll see the tweets I wrote their on friday. That's the difference. And, speaking for me, Twinkle has the only usable implementation of location based tweeting.
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Inappropriate?alright folks, i'm happy to report that Twinkle 1.2 is going to the App Store for review on Monday. Hopefully it'll be live just a few days later.
I’m psyched
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Inappropriate?Yay I'm all excited now as I'm getting so sick of seeing one particular user's profanities. Let's hope Apple doesn't hold it up too long or get picky like they've been with a couple of apps.....
I’m woohoo!
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Inappropriate?Is there any chance of cleaning Twinkle of some of the garbage? It has become a douchebag repository and a place for children to get attention by posting as many racial slurs in a row as they can fathom.
Please, your product is going to complete crap here.
I’m sad
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@ugh - The Twinkle community is a public, open discussion. We do not censor or ban anyone unless they've been reported by another user. If you don't like their posts, feel free to ban as many users as you wish :)
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