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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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    2. 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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      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. Maciej Fijałkowski‏ @fijall 16 Feb 2019
          Replying to @paulg

          you are not engaging with that person - you are engaging with your followers by using that person as a prop. Can be good too, but it's usually bad for any conversation

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        1. Karen Replies‏ @kerobinso_repl 16 Feb 2019
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          It's funny, because you're probably right. retweet-with-comment CAN be used to say why you agree w something (& make it yours, vs a blind retweet). but then a comment can also be in agreement, but yet people assume that getting "ratio'd" is bad.

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        1. Dimitar Pachov‏ @dpachov 16 Feb 2019
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          Well, if that someone has no intention of engagement, an unproductive attempt to engage is no better than the "bad way" to engage via RT-with-comment. Engagement is a two-way sided relationship.

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        1. casey allen‏ @casey__allen 16 Feb 2019
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          Talking over vs Talking with

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        2. Will Bickford‏ @wbic16 16 Feb 2019
          Replying to @socialimpactvc @ImpCapital @paulg

          I use it to avoid getting buried in a megathread. Twitter really needs more dimensions than just "down".

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        1. Joaquín Beltrán  🐇 #GreenZoneAct‏ @joaquinlife 16 Feb 2019
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          It’s also part of a “cable news shows” culture that people adopt in engaging others. For the most part, there’s no really listening or engagement toward understanding or breaking down issues, just debate for the sake of it and attempts at one-liners.

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