Eugen RochkoI don't feel as strongly about quote posts as I did in 2018. Personally, I am not a fan, but there is clearly a lot of demand for it. We're considering it.
Toot Terrorist@Gargron I hope you don't add it, but if you do, at least give us the option to block quoted posts from people, please.
Jurjen Heeck 🍋@twit_terrorist @Gargron That, and the option to block my posts (individually) from being quoted.
Allan Warsing@jurjen_heeck @twit_terrorist @Gargron
One can simply link to a post, but the nicely formatted graph data doesn't display. I don't see the difference in linking to URL or quote posting. I think if you post something to a public website, others should be able to interact with that post. Turning off comments, muting, blocking are legit methods to control your personal experience, but pre-editorializing who can link to a public post I think goes too far.
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@awarsing @jurjen_heeck @twit_terrorist @Gargron the difference is the immediate visibility of the content combined with, often as seen on Twitter, a call to pile-on or otherwise disparage the original post / author.
We see this happening a LOT on Twitter. We really don’t need to add routes for bullying and abuse here.
Billie@jurjen_heeck @wiredfire @awarsing @twit_terrorist @Gargron this is exactly the reason why not to do it.
Has been pointed out many times as the big positive feature compared to #birdside that this is not possible here.
Quoting and boosting basically stops the discussion and changes it to a talk about the post&author, excluding her/him from any further conversation and giving the trolls a tool for harassment and insulting.
Don't.
StreetDogg@Billie @jurjen_heeck @wiredfire @awarsing @twit_terrorist @Gargron
I miss QTs a lot because often I explicitly *don't* want to bother the original poster with a (potentionally annoying) reply. I want to communicate my thoughts to my followers, who deliberately follow me to receive that kind of content and can undo that at any moment.
Being encouraged to become a reply guy isn't always making things better...
Lapineige@StreetDogg so you need to share some reaction, and optionally the content you're reacting to, to your followers, while not notifying the author. Then you can (optionally boost and) reply without mentioning this person.
To what extend does that don't fulfill the need ?
@Lapineige @StreetDogg @wiredfire
This is exactly how #mastodon handles this: you boost AND write a reply to the post.
This ensures that your comment remains in the correct context and gives the original author the possibility to reply to you.
@Billie for my part before discussing the actual pros and cons of each system (but yes, disclaimer, I don't believe the pros of QRT outweigth the cons), I want to understand what is the actual need behind it that it supposedly not fulfilled right now, and that a QRT-like feature would fulfill.
Because I don't see or don't understand it (I never used such a feature).
@StreetDogg @wiredfire
Because I don't see or don't understand it (I never used such a feature).
@StreetDogg @wiredfire