Let’s admit that this thing has hurt many innocent users rn and its cons has been more obvious than its pros.

There’s the issue that simply hiding replies from someone who you haven’t followed back is not a reasonable solution to reduce annoying spam accounts, it’s just a self-delusion like“Only followers can reply” option. Since most users don’t even care about messages below the fold(at least this is what the feature tries to imply users to do) and this method just sorts those ordinary replies into a spam hole as ppl did to the real spammers before.

This is not acceptable.