# Demeaning post by IvoryTowerDenizen

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**Created:** [August 8, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demeaning-post-by-ivorytowerdenizen/793113 "2017-08-08T18:01:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demeaning-post-by-ivorytowerdenizen/793113/12 "2017-08-08T19:24:16Z")

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> [@Turble](#):
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> “The OP was asking opinions from those who use Twitter. If you do not use Twitter, you had no reason to post in the thread. “
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> I see nowhere where the OP mentioned that he did not want to hear opinions from people who have tried Twitter and didn’t find it to their liking.  
> “If you wanted to share your opinion about the pitfalls or lack of value of Twitter, I’m positive that would be welcome in the forum, just not in that thread that had an opposite purpose. “
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> One of the purposes of that thread was to explore whether or not Twitter is worthwhile. I did it concisely and with a touch of humor.
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> I did not call any specific person a twit and can’t imagine that all of you would deny that are, indeed, a great many twits on twitter.
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> I still think the comments from ITD were personally motivated and not in the spirit of the boards. The ‘this guy’ comment was personal and demeaning.
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> “For the record IvoryTowerDenizen is the nice one. “
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> Agreed. I was very surprised by this. I hope things don’t go the way of the Oozlum bird here.

Note that there is a way to express your opinion without threadshitting.

> [@How do you Twitter? And who do you follow?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-twitter-and-who-do-you-follow/792438/21):
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> I don’t, and nobody.

**jz78817** also mentioned he doesn’t use Twitter. Even though his post wasn’t absolutely necessary, he didn’t insult Twitter users by calling them Twits, so it went unremarked on and didn’t draw a mod note. And you got only a mod note, and not a warning, so it’s not really a big deal. I think you’re making much ado about nothing.

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