You can't do it at all without affecting the other person- they will feel you there. What is 'damping mode'? The mere fact you are 'damping' means you are affecting his feel! You can't do it anyway on a Bus, so I just don't see it as a possibility. So what do you fly?
Done that for the last 20 years, never got any complain, and in the same time learned a lot from it.
I appreciate working on a dual crew flight deck. Always try to share as much information as possible with my partner, and control inputs are part of it. That information is readily available, I just take it, much better if my partner does the same, he will be just more in the loop if anything happens.
Won't say again here what I think of the Airbus sidestick philosophy ...
JW411, no superior knowledge here but enough experience to know that I will always need more.