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.
@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.
@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 here's a picture of my cats instead