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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Feb 2019

      Some people who complain want to make things better. Others want attention, or just like to complain. How do you tell them apart? The ones who want to make things better engage earnestly with those they disagree with, to try to convert them to their point of view.

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Feb 2019

      On Twitter you can use retweet-with-comment as a test of this. You don't engage earnestly with someone by quote-tweeting them. Retweet-with-comment is a way to tell _other_ people (who already agree with you) "look what this idiot said."

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        1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Feb 2019

          I'm not saying retweet-with-comment per se is bad. There are good things you can do with it. It's just a bad way to engage with someone you disagree with.

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        1. David Sun‏ @bearmace 16 Feb 2019
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          Resisting the urge to retweet this with comment

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        1. Charlie Ward (weekendclub.co)  ✌️‏ @charlierward 16 Feb 2019
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          Totally agree. Quote tweeting’s turned Twitter into a giant dunk contest. Probably great for entertainment and engagement, but terrible for public discourse.

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        1. Bruce Bateman Esq‏ @demigodgeous 16 Feb 2019
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          Retweet with comment also spares you from having to deal with the multitude of followers that agree with what the idiot says.

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        1. Pascallisp‏ @pascallisp 16 Feb 2019
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          I think the second point is only partially true. If you quote tweet and then use hashtags relevant to the conversation, you're trying to earnestly engage with the greater public when they navigate via the hashtag.

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        1. David Haddad‏ @daveying99 16 Feb 2019
          Replying to @paulg

          Isn't retweeting-with-a-comment also a way to: 1. Get feedback from the retweeter's community and start a conversation. 2. Provide another angle for the message that the original poster didn't think about.

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        1. ѕɪᴅ ѕʜᴇᴋʜᴀʀ‏ @sidshekhar24 16 Feb 2019
          Replying to @paulg

          The opposite of this can be true as well - Retweet with comment as a form of positive affirmation and 'engagement' to spread the message

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        2. Colin Percival‏ @cperciva 16 Feb 2019
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          I don't think RT-with-comment is automatically bad. I often see it used for: * Explicitly endorsing opinions, * Expanding claims (e.g., "This happens in my company too"), * Publicly answering interesting questions, and * Providing context (especially if RTing part of a thread).

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        3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 16 Feb 2019
          Replying to @cperciva

          No, it's certainly not automatically bad. It's only bad as a way to disagree with something.

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        2. visa is almost done  ✍🏾 📖‏ @visakanv 16 Feb 2019
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          Aside: I propose we drop "retweet-with-comment' altogether and stick to 'quote-tweet' (which you're already using in the same tweet!). RTs, QTs. It's cleaner 🤓pic.twitter.com/PdXzOgXat3

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