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Re:Twitter expands downvote test worldwide by woodruffw on Friday February 04, 2022 @01:51PM (#30211214)
Maybe we're in different bubbles, but my experience with bad takes on Twitter is that the entire first level is mockery and quote-tweets, with people doubling down on that mockery in the responses to the quote-tweets. Rebuttals, if they come, happen mostly on locked down accounts or via subtweeting (although mockery is also standard in the subtweets).

I also don't think that up/downvotes are likely to change that for Twitter, since Twitter's culture is essentially built around bull sessions[1]. A key part of socializing during bull sessions is mockery, and getting buy-in from your group to perform mockery/ragging on another person in then group (who is supposed to gracefully accept said mockery).

[1]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bull%20sessi...

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