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It works exactly according to its intended algorithm, which is very clearly documented on the GitHub page. Yet you claim it's poorly coded.

The "only thing it does" is block people who follow specific accounts, as they overwhelmingly tend to be annoying GamerGaters on Twitter. You only find it harmful because people you haven't personally annoyed yet are pre-emptively blocking you from doing so.

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It's a <300 line Perl script that anyone could have thrown together in less than an hour. If that's all it takes to be a coder worthy of anything other than code monkey work then I've been looking for jobs in the wrong places. And if you really think that someone following someone you disagree with on Twitter is grounds for never interacting with them at all, then I'm sorry to say but you exist in a nice little hugbox.

Your primary objection to it seems to be entirely predicated on the fact that it prevents you from annoying people who would rather be left alone. "<300 line Perl script" isn't a substantive or useful criticism.

Indeed. I would think a hastily coded perl script written in a fog of tequila being so effective is a pretty good vote in my favor.

I mean, imagine what I can do with gin.

Say the word and I'll postmates a bottle of Bombay Sapphire to your office.

When the two choices given you are to exist in a hugbox or get abused and insulted every day for a few years, I think I know what sane people are going to do. Including you, despite your bluster. There are other ways to counteract being in an echo chamber that don't involve constantly turning the other cheek to a mob of wild assholes.

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