stephanie

this might change with the new "retweets with comments" view which attaches qts to the op. this gives more impact to qts but also i think it'd be wrong to roll out reply limits without it as there needs to be some path to accountability visible from the original tweet

let's go back to 3) sometimes i am an asshole to my sweet, loyal, dumb followers. this apparently feels unjustified to many so let me explain that when u are a girl online, lots of men think it's ok to be extremely, insanely, terrifyingly familiar with u all the fucking time

esp when using my real name & face in a small industry it is very uncomfy to get flirty replies from eg the head of design at (big redacted co) or the former cto of (big redacted co) as well as random software engineers all over sf it's fucking weird as hell and i hate it!

and turns out when i finally snapped and started being an asshole to reply guys and following through on blocking them, the volume of uncomfortable & overfamiliar replies & dms went down by a lot. on the flip side i get more vicious harassment bc of course you can't win

not all women experience this and not all that do are bothered by it but a lot are! and until reply limits there was no way to avoid it besides telling people to fuck off all the time. i joined twitter fun & fresh & excited and i apologize but this is an unending wave of bullshit

reply limits aren't gonna Solve annoying idiots online but there are a lot of people here experiencing death by a thousand cuts every day and some kind of paradigm shift is needed. frankly i think the new implementation is fairly well thought out! but should be watched carefully

i've been talking about this recently but modern social networks have completely eroded the idea of 'moderation' in any form or shape, so like your own reply moderation is seen as some kind of 'weapon'. on forums, nobody complained when an idiot got banned/posting revoked!