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I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's

Randahl Fink

@Gargron I feel you are overlooking the usefulness of quotes. I have used quotes on Twitter to qualify WHY the content I was retweeting was worth looking at.
Simply just retweeting content may make people overlook the importance of said content. However, if you retweet content and write a qualifying comment such as "This is a very strong observation, because…" etc., that has real value.
I agree with you, the feature can be abused, but would you not agree almost all features can be abused?

@randahl @Gargron I agree this explanation seems to overlook legitimate use cases. For example I often quote-tweet myself to give an update on something I said a long time ago. Replying to myself doesn't give the necessary context.