Ripple's David Schwartz warns XRP community he'll block off-topic repliers on X
In brief
- Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz warned XRP community members over replies on his X posts.
- Off-topic crypto comments, insults and accusations had become disruptive enough to block accounts, Schwartz said.
- The replies also inconvenience other X users whose posts he engages with, Schwartz said.
- Schwartz will block accounts that follow him across X to accuse him of fraud or scamming.
What Schwartz said
Schwartz said he'd recently noticed a growing pattern of irrelevant crypto-related comments on his X posts, according to U.Today's report. By his description, there's been a substantial increase in users (especially from the XRP community) responding to his comments on unrelated posts with insults, accusations and crypto-related messages.
That's his characterization. It isn't a measured figure.
U.Today's own framing isn't consistent either: the outlet describes the plan as blocking most XRP users in one place and as blocking some accounts in another. Schwartz's stated line is narrower than that headline version. He said he won't tolerate people using his participation in other users' discussions as a chance to promote XRP or attack him.
Why it spills into other threads
So who actually pays for the noise? According to Schwartz, it isn't only him. He said the replies affect his own interactions and also inconvenience other X users whose posts he engages with.
The replies follow him into other people's conversations.
U.Today reported that Schwartz is concerned that flooding unrelated conversations with XRP content or personal attacks could force the people he responds to to block him, so their followers don't get irrelevant notifications. For someone who joins discussions well beyond his own feed, that's the practical cost he described.
The fraud accusations
Schwartz also pointed to fraud allegations he said he keeps receiving on unrelated posts, and he said he plans to act on those too. He'll block accounts that follow him across X to accuse him of fraud or scamming, and that applies whether their comments are positive or negative, per U.Today.
U.Today paraphrased the X post rather than quoting it directly, so the wording above reflects the outlet's account of what Schwartz said.
