Exhibit A for why we need reply controls: a dude with 8 followers arguing incessantly in the replies of people with thousands that reply controls would be bad, all without ever so much as acknowledging the concerns that reply controls would address.
It is not enough to block those people. I want to remove the posts they bolted onto my threads. They shouldn't get to leave their trash in my space.
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