Casey NewtonEmbarrassed by how much I miss Twitter's quote-tweet feature on here. It was mostly used for evil but I tried to use it for good!!
Craig Newmark@caseynewton Yeah, I think I'd like quote-tweet, always used it to promote others' work, or, comedy
Rob MillerI haven't yet seen any actual data verifying that QTs caused more harm than good, or that removing them causes significant reduction in harassment and abuse. I'm 100% behind removing them even though I miss them personally if that's actually true, but so far I see a lot of folks asserting that to be so w/o any evidence.
If anyone who happens to see this has info one way or the other I'd love to hear about it, please and thank you!
John Wilson@nonsequitarian @craignewmark @caseynewton
Some groups (activists of all kinds) use this power to effect change and bring attention to people being abused by those in power.
Some groups of people are the regular recipients of quote tweet attcks and bad faith outrage at taking tweets out of context. I don’t have “data” (what would it even look like) but I’ve heard from plenty of trans folks who have suffered harm from a weaponized quote tweet dogpile
@crazybutable @craignewmark @caseynewton
Of course! If removing QTs have a significant impact on the abuse that targeted people suffer, I'm 100% for it. But "QTs are used as a vector for abuse" and "removing QTs reduces abuse" are not the same statement.
I'm not on a crusade to add QTs to Mastodon, and I'm not asking these questions to sell people on the idea. It's not that big a deal to me, honestly. I'm just curious if we actually know that removing QTs leads to reduced harassment.