Thanks everyone for voting and sharing your opinion!
Looking at the results, I think this does support the idea that maybe replies to followers-only posts should be automatically private mentions?
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@stefan Are you joking? 77% said "my own followers"! How could that possibly mean "me only"?
@evan Well the question was:
"Who do you expect to see replies from when you post a followers-only post?"
So if you only expect to hear from your followers, without reply controls, the visibility of the replies to your post would have to be limited only to you, or, potentially, to you and mutual followers of you and the person replying, but not the followers of the person replying that don't follow you directly.
I think private mentions handle this well and rather simply.
The question was: "Who do you expect to see replies from when you post a followers-only post?"
And the overwhelmingly most popular answer was "My own followers".
When people say that they expect their followers to see replies, then they expect their followers to see replies.
You said:
> So if you only expect to hear from your followers,
That wasn't the question.
> without reply controls,
Irrelevant.
> the visibility of the replies to your post would have to be limited only to you,
No, to your *followers*, which is what everyone said?
> or, potentially, to you and mutual followers of you and the person replying, but not the followers of the person replying that don't follow you directly.
That was an option and an unpopular answer.
