another reason why quote-boosting is Bad, Actually:

It encourages shock jocks to say controversial bullshit, because they know people will boost their horrible content just to dunk on it, which necessarily puts *even more eyes* on it. It's literally a mechanism for encouraging jerks to make other people mad, for clout.

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@zkat counterpoint: it's has been an important call and response mechanism on black twitter.

maybe there's a different way to do activism here, but i've seen quite a few black activist pause on coming here because of that specific dynamic.

@zkat i can't find the thread i was going to link to... i wonder if they had to lock their account

@confusedcharlot counter-counterpoint: It's also been used, repeatedly, by Shocked White People to absolutely bombard Black people with Black death. I still think they're a net L

@zkat well i'm not trying argue that, because it's out of my lane. what i was hoping to do is amplify someone with who has a stake in how these systems work,

which i have failed to, possibly because of the horribleness.

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