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@hildabast@mastodon.online @ttpphd@mastodon.social Screenshots also had to be used, as receipts proving what the bad actors were doing (particularly the foreign-language #COVID #disinformation) because as soon as any given thread fell off the doomscroll, the bad actors would then delete the evidence of what they had said. So much missing content is definitely going to skew your results. Also: "The primary vectors of incivility and abuse on Twitter appear to be replies and hashtags, and it comes from a small minority of users." This is provably untrue; the second ivermectin disinformation campaign hit six tweets per second, on September 11, 2021 (yes - the 20th anniversary of 9/11): https://nitter.unixfox.eu/TheSpoonless/status/1436749753627381760#m As for quote boosts here, I'm happy to have it be opt-in only, and I hope it will be implemented across the fediverse that accounts can opt out of being quoted. My last word on the subject comes from QTs' inventor: "“Quote retweet allows for the dunk. It’s the dunk mechanism." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet