@trochee Yep. "Private QTs" where a huge harassment vector on Twitter -- https://www.dailydot.com/debug/twitter-private-quote-tweets-abuse/ discusses in more detail.

@misc @damon @kissane

@kissane Yep. Black Twitter refined using QTs as a means of calling out racism (and sexism, hypocrisy, etc). And racist misogynist troll kings. have plenty of other tools they can use (includng 11-thread reply chains).

Of course the details of how QTS matter a lot -- and there certainly needs to be more anti-harassment functionality and better moderation in general. So we'll see how it goes.

And @damon, 💯 !

@misc There are already plenty of intermediate options! Agreed that calling in is often a better initial approach, but when racist behavior repeats and persists (as it has on Mastodon for the last 6+ years), powerful tools are needed as well.

@trochee @kissane @damon

Agreed, there's lots of room for innovation here -- both in terms of norms and affordances.

But back to @damon's point: as @kissane's OP illustrates, sometimes spotlighting bad behavior's useful. A tactic that #BlackTwitter uses effectively in this situation (QTs) has been blocked from Mastodon for years, which has the effect of reinforcing the anti-Blackness here.

@trochee @misc