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NerdShamer said:
But in more tangible news, D****d T***p is still the antichrist in the minds of one of their lunatics.
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It's always weak and counterproductive to bleep names like this. By censoring the names of people you see as atrocious in a "he who must not be named" manner, you give them a sense of power and respect through fear. You imply that merely hearing their names is too distressing. If you think someone is genuinely evil, it's much better to make light of them because no one wants to be a punchline.
 
Rusty Hinges said:
It's always weak and counterproductive to bleep names like this. By censoring the names of people you see as atrocious in a "he who must not be named" manner, you give them a sense of power and respect through fear. You imply that merely hearing their names is too distressing. If you think someone is genuinely evil, it's much better to make light of them because no one wants to be a punchline.
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Which was exactly the point that JK Rowling made in her books. But she doesn't count because she's a transphobic shitlord despite being on the left.
 
The greater a'tuin said:
This is a wise move actually, the euphemism treadmill is a pain in the ass of permanent revolution nonsense.
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Too bad that it came at the price of dozens of pages
Rusty Hinges said:
If you think someone is genuinely evil, it's much better to make light of them because no one wants to be a punchline.
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But that takes actual effort
 
NerdShamer said:
They're just scared because it'll attract " mean" people to their site when the reality is that it's mainly just fanfic writers editing their own pages for the past few months
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Hilarious when you consider a huge percentage of their userbase is psychotic bullies.
 
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Making the right decision for the most cynical reasons.
 
I think they walked back or they broke something, it's not triggering anymore even with ublock and javascript enabled lol nope it's back to spamming the "pls dun use adblock here" shit. They are discussing it at ublock's github btw.
 
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Gondolindrim said:
Oh it's already started. Dearest @NerdShamer has been hard at work compiling archives of the various updates that they're making to try and stop the bleeding but it's clearly not working.
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So, WarJay is trying to recruit people in order to to rewrite the Trope Launchpad Guidelines in order to make sound a bit less aggressive.

It remains to be seen if Kory or the regular set of jannies are actually in on this. But either way, the little spastic just can't sit still, for some reason
 
A.P. Hill said:
Yet another example of tropers wiping out an entirely good page to make it look like they're doing some kind of meaningful "work".
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people who are mods on forums or editors of sites like wikis are almost unanimously power hungry low achievers and crazies without anything going on
 
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