so many pile-ons start with best intentions. am i the only one thinking subtweets are much less abusive than shaming/lecturing quote tweets?
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Replying to @zerdeve
(I'm still bad with this.) Even for positive viral tweets, seeing the same exact *well-intentioned* comment repeated endlessly is exhausting. When it's a shaming pile on, I think it's overwhelming in a way that anyone targeted — even if they are capable of change — never will.
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I know and I have for the most part managed to eliminate this behavior from my own twitter use. It was hard because you get used to emulating what you see. Now I ask myself everytime before I tweet: Is this abusive? Then delete it before posting it if the answer is yes.
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I’ve been the recipient of pile-ons before and that’s what’s helped me changed. It really sucks to be on the receiving end because you pretty much lose your personhood, agency, ability to change...
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Yea. Esp because the shape of the medium means your subsequent responses don't propagate to the entire swarm. So the loss of personhood/agency/ability to change is accompanied by this impossible to thread needle where you think you can react, which somehow makes it worse.
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Ugh it’s extremely frustrating, that feeling of being cornered.
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Yea, that's exactly the right word, I think. No escape behind you; aggression in front.
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