@SarahOestreich @Gargron heh, I hear you. Mostly just poking fun. I've been moaning at my poor followers all week about QTs, as I generally feel their value outweighs the harm and the risk (especially if Mastodon's userbase remains an overall better calibre of maturity and compassion), but I'm not oblivious to the difference between my experience as a middle class white guy versus that of minorities and marginalised groups.

I get that it's easy for me to want to quote toot, say, somebody trying to work out how to allow uploads over cellular data on their phone and add something like "pretty sure you just do this and then this, but maybe not. Any of my fellow gadget nerds have any tips?", and that's a fairly benign use case and obviously not what mastodon is worried about. I understand how they can and do get used by bad actors or the naively ignorant.

But, at the same time, if I really want to do this, I can screengrab like you did and @mention the OP, or I can reply with what I said above and then retoot my reply, still drawing attention to the OP's toot, if not exposing the original toot in the process. Both are a workaround I'll probably use on those harmless occasions — but it also shows that not offering a QT function is a very low barrier to anybody who wants to QT, for good or bad.

Anyway, it's not like it's up for a vote. 'tis but my opinion and not the end of the world regardless!