@polotek I did not intend to fight with you. I don't disagree with you.
My point was only that I don't think the source of the toxicity lirs in the QT functionality. In my personal experience, it was almost always used positively.
Twitter's QT functionality also allowed trolls and bad actors to take control of other people's content for their own purposes. That transfer of power is what enables the abuse.
That led to bad patterns like users searching for their own name.