“Reply if [something that is obviously true]” is engagement baiting, Twitter
And you didn’t think to disable quote RTs on your fancy new “disable replies” feature
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I suspect that when quote RTs were implemented, no attention was paid to the idea that maybe they shouldn’t always be possible, and now implementing that would be a huge pain
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Since that was very critical, I do think that being able to disable replies is a good feature. But they only wrote half the feature
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People also use screenshots for this, which remain up if the person deletes the tweet or makes their account private. The quote feature is basically one form of link preview, and you could still link to people's tweets without having the preview. A screenshot can do that instead.
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I don't think this works well as an anti-harassment tool. It's a blunter and preemptive form of the hide reply feature they added earlier, which lets you selectively hide replies in your threads. I think the main purpose is to let people control narratives in their own threads.
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Someone harassing/slandering you can take advantage of these features to shut down the discussion in their posts. Quote reply someone in a cruel way to send a mob to harass them and use hide replies or this feature to avoid people calling you out about it. I think it's intended.
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I think tools like these are more useful for doing evil than they are for protecting against it...
It makes sense for them to add this because they want brands, celebrities and others to be able to be able to create clean spaces where they control the narrative. I don't like it.
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GitHub lets you outright edit other people's comments in the scope of your repositories. Until a year or two ago, it didn't even show an edit history. It's still problematic, since it doesn't change it into something clearly collaboratively written.
I saw that abused a lot...
You can already see Twitter themselves (ab)using it as a way to jokingly troll people:
twitter.com/TwitterComms/s
Not going to be funny anymore when it's used as a way to make false claims including slandering people without a way for people to defend themselves or others, etc.
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In my opinion, this is a really problematic feature. Consider that a hateful community mutually following each other can use this to create a bubble where no one can post any dissent, etc. They can still harass and post screenshots or link to tweets, even without quote replies.
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