Replying to someone with a “quote post” instead of a regular reply is so annoying. Why do people do this so much?
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Maybe some client has implemented it that way? 🤔
Assuming people care
Agree 🤪
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I quote post a lot!
So why do I do it?
It's more responding to the idea and projecting it outwards rather than responding to it where the reply may get buried.
At least I think that's why. I will try to be less annoying. 😁
People want to prompt a sub discussion based on their response to your original post, and provide the original context of their remark.
Without an algorithm to do it well, seeing replies requires actually going back and revisiting a post to see comments, or seeing a flood of out-of-context comments. (At least on Damus)
Nostur does show comments alongside the OP, but sometimes the comments in the middle get lost… this is the sort of thing the big tech companies honed over the last decade that we don’t have when we start to rebuild
But people do it when they are simply just replying to the OP. Like if I quoted your note with this same exact response instead of simply replying to you. I see that a lot, and it feels like they want attention, not a conversation.
Michael Malice does it all the time on Twitter, it’s annoying, I agree
Sounds like we agree it has a legit purpose but you’re saying it gets misused all the time, that makes sense
Yes 🤝 I once saw a back and forth on Twitter where the entire “thread” was a series of the two people quoting each other instead of replying directly. It was an interesting discussion, but that approach made it incredibly hard to follow along with. And it felt more like they were each more interested in “one upping” each other in front of their own followers than simply engaging in a good debate.
Because it's easier to copy note id and add context message than rewrite something and repost images etc.
It's even more annoying when someone does the thing that you point out is annoying with your post.
In Amethyst, quotes don't show as replies & I often don't think about what is being displayed in other clients that I'm not currently using. Usually when I'm quoting something, I'm adding my opinion in a way that my followers will see it, not so much as a reply to the original note.
Oh I’m a regular guy, it that just attention grabbing ? Or just simple monkey device interface error?
I can’t say what anyone’s intentions are; only how it comes across 🤷♂️ It makes sense that if you want to engage with someone in conversation then you’d simply reply to them. If you are more interested in attention from your own followers then you’ll quote them instead of replying, because that way all of your followers will see how smart you are. 😂
Quite 😉
It simply combines boosting and replying. Convenient isn't it?
Most probably because how buttons are arranged and named in the UI of their client. And noone that uses such a method bothers because it works.
"Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs" - Guy Debord
I feel like you asked for such a response with this 😆
I'm never sure when to pick quote boost or comment, mostly picking at random except for this specific note. Then I realized I could comment and boost or quote my comment and I got even more confused about when to do each option.
I can't do anything right 😭😂🫂
Because then the reply doesn't show up "as" a reply but as part of your own notes and timeline, allowing your opinion to be unlinked to the post.