I've never really understood the point of community notes. If the idea is to put a social/economic cost on lying it <i>clearly</i> doesn't function. The same people just continually get community noted, it doesn't harm their popularity of position. So it doesn't function to improve the platform in any way. It feels a lot to me like the lift close button. Idiots get a kick out of smashing that button but we all know it doesn't do anything. It just sits there in the place of something that should <i>actually</i> incentivize better contributions to the discourse.<p>Take Ian Miles Cheong for example, his latest community notes is just a straight up baselessly slandering a war hero. Did he delete the tweet? Did he retract or anything? Has he faced any consequences whatsoever for his lie? Do we think for a second that his followers read and beleive the correction? No, in fact he's part of X's monetization programme, you can pay him $5 a month to lie to you about dead Ukrainians. Yet here we are smashing that door close button.<p>Meanwhile there's the other side of it which is like President Biden tweets out some statistic on the labor force and the community note is like "Well yes this is literally correct and we're not disputing it, but the mob in charge of this tool doesn't like Biden so we're going to attach an opposing political message under every one of his tweets". Now that actually <i>does</i> disincentivize Biden from using the platform. So what are we even doing here? If you control a decent sized mob on twitter you can attach your political messaging to every tweet of your political opponents? That sounds like a great dynamic from driving one side of the political divide off the platform entirely.