@trochee @jdp23 @damon @kissane Not fully, of course, just like you can’t prevent people from doing screenshot quotes or unauthorized search crawls, or anything else that people don’t want. But, like, as one example, what if quote boosts were followers-only by default, and it took an active choice to flip it to public? Even a simple soft guard rail like that could be helpful.

@trochee @jdp23 @kissane @damon Of course there is no way to systematically prevent abuse or going overboard. But it helps to give people intermediate options, so that the whole culture isn't normalized around going to 11, because the dial actually has a 1 through 10.

@trochee @jdp23 @kissane @damon I think it would be great to have more built in ways to call in or ... call sideways? Before jumping right to call out. Call outs are just inherently a really powerful tool that can be abused.

@jdp23 @trochee @kissane @damon I'm not sure I agree we have a sufficient set of tools. I think there's a lot we can do in between what we have, and what existed on Twitter, which had no guardrails and therefore had a real tendency toward public shaming spectacle that I understand why the anti-quote people would be afraid of recreating. We shouldn't limit ourselves to the best tools we had before.

@jdp23 @damon @kissane @trochee I agree with all of this and QTs should have been enabled a long time ago, but I think developing those norms and affordances should be a priority, because the concerns about abuse are legitimate. I’m not arguing for zero tools for spotlighting abuse, I’m arguing for many tools. And I was just trying to sketch out an idea for something that would work like a limited-reach QT.