Good thread on the ways in which people replying to (particularly but not exclusively viral) tweets wind up confusing and offending OPs without intending to.
https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1313150299725586439
I've got a policy of blocking anyone who speaks abusively toward me here, in no small part because if you're going to talk that way to me, you're probably going to do the same to people who reply to me, and I try to keep my mentions free of that kind of bullshit.
So if I tweet something about someone being horrible, and you reply with "Asshole." without any context, there's a good chance you're just going to get blocked on the spot. Even if you intended to agree with me that the person I was talking about is horrible.
If you follow me, I may poke around to try to figure out what you meant, particularly if there are context clues in your bio or something, but if the tweet you're replying to is viral, it's likely one of dozens or hundreds of similar replies, so the chances of it drop a lot.
As @AlexandraErin says, Twitter is absolutely a place where good conversations can happen. But part of making that possible is weeding your mentions and your followers to keep people who are going to poison the well away from you. And that means blocking. A LOT.
So yeah, I really do suggest reading Alexandra's thread all the way through. She talks about a lot of ways of screwing up that I see all the time.
(Not a big fan of "dumb" as an insult, but yes, replying to someone to offer an unsolicited tangential opinion on something they tweeted is weird and awkward, and if the opinion is an annoying one, unlikely to go well.)
RELATEDLY RELATEDLY.
https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1313181429040324612
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