@drdrowland If you respond to yourself, it's still visible in the timelines... I think a solution would be to make your responses unlisted (click on the world icon and change into unlisted). That way you won't spam the public timelines beyond your first post.
@trinsec unlist? like voluntarily reduce how loud i'm talking? hah. that's a good functionality.
@drdrowland I've seen other people reporting on games (soccer mostly) with certain hashtags so that can be filtered out if people don't want to see it. So that's the other possibility if you don't want to go unlisted.