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 @Cocohead @Gargron yes as it does of course fork the original discussion into lots of separate fragments, instead of plain boosts drawing everyone into that original discussion which helped the original poster. I am now understanding why Mastodon had it this way, as it added to the central discussion for everyone. It will change how and where discussions happen, but maybe a poll is good idea too to what users want. 5 comments
 @danie10 @Cocohead @Gargron Interestingly, I always felt that this "Draw all discussion in" was a weakness, not a strength. It made it too easy to hijack a conversation. I'd see people talking about important issues, personal problems, whatever, and comment number 12 is a crowd-pleasing sidetrack and suddenly the important issue is abandoned and the original discussion is derailed. @danie10 @Cocohead @Gargron I was taught early on, in my Twitter days, that if my comment no a post doesn't add directly to the original conversation, then it's simply good manners to QT instead. I can have my discussion, and OP can see it, but in a way that doesn't silence OP by robbing them of their audience. @danie10 yeah. I mean i don't mean to assert that there's a single correct answer, one true way or anything, all my arguments here are just meant as data points to help steer the final decision. I don't know that quoting is truly that valuable, just that I see a lot of flawed reasoning in some of the arguments against it. It might still be bad regardless. |
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@danie10 @Cocohead @Gargron Ok, but instead of "polling", maybe consider doing it "properly" with,for example SurveyMonkey - something out-of-channel, slightly more formal, maybe a bit bot resistant.
Just since this seems to be such a TOUCHY issue.