I read the reference to *performative* in @gargron 's comment in the context of #discourseanalysis (and in complete agreement, as I've also noticed this use of QT in structured practices in social platforms that intended to be incendiary). It seems a wish for performance, hopefully of a more benign kind, is also what drives the renewed interest in QT (in 2022). But benign or not, this is playing with fire. In that context, I think I can see gargron's point.

@gargron
I'm surprised. I would have assumed that post-Gamergate (2015) insights about the undesirable social use of QT to encourage dogpiling etc. would become solidified following the Infodemic (2020), Jan6 (2021), and the disclosures made by FB civic integrity PM and whistleblower Haugen (2021-2022). Just last week, this article specifically pointed to QT as a problem, and to decentralized social platforms as our hope: https://theswaddle.com/how-the-internet-ruined-our-passion-for-politics-and-how-we-can-get-it-back/