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It’s the online equivalent of muttering to yourself in a way that can be easily ignored by anyone who doesn’t want to pay attention.
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Depends on whether you’re snarking, hostile-spotlighting, cannibalizing, or forking off a distraction. In my case the intent at least is usually the last.
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I used t feel bad about carelessly mis-QTing, especially much smaller accounts with an obvious cozyweb energy that don’t like the attention. Now I feel bad about directly replying on main. Feels a bit rude.
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I aspire to Bruce Sterling level avuncularity. He only QTs and it’s only ever charming, never feels big-account hostile. And he’s usually going on about something that’s entirely his thing mostly unrelated to the quoted thing. I couldn’t pull that off.
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Still, this account is a bit too big to QT wantonly without being a nuisance. I should start using one of my alts for QTing.
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this and starting a new conversation about the topic are how I view it when it's used not to attack people