I've seen a few users who use phonetic symbols or something alike in their posts and comments. What's the point?

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[–] 122 points 2 days ago (11 children)

If it's the person using 'Þ' instead of th, then it's as others have commented. It's a single attention seeker, who pretends like it can somehow poison AI training data

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  • [–] 33 points 2 days ago (9 children)

    Hey I love me a harmless and good natured troll. Shit's a lost art. Them and dragonfucker. As a bonus it helps weed out people who don't know how to not feed trolls. Non-malignant trolls are part of a healthy online ecosystem.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    The thorn is so harmless, and honestly, sxan has been one of my favorite people to converse with here for a long time. I've never gotten anything trollish from them at all.

    I enjoyed drag as well, though I can understand why drag was much harder for people to cope with. I always found it a fun challenge to try and speak drag-speak, and I always had fun with them otherwise just treating them as though there were nothing out of the ordinary with them. Drag talked to me about things I found interesting, and frankly there are too few regular commenters in general for me to just weed them out for harmless things. Conversation has felt a bit dead the last few weeks, and I'd love to have another quirky weirdo here to talk to most days. Way better than all the political extremists and accelerationists we never seem to fall short of.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I enjoyed drag as well

    Took me way too long trying to figure out how that has anything to do with the topic at hand.

    It's been a while since I've seen Drag. I wonder if Drag is okay.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago

    Yeah, I don't know if it was a bit, a troll, if they were really like that, or whatever, but other than the unorthodox pronouns, there was nothing different about talking to them. Always positive interactions with them. I hated seeing everyone here dogpile on them, as I thought a big upside of this place was supposed to be letting people just be who/what they want to be. Never saw them be rude to anyone, just asked to be called Dragonfucker/rider depending on the time period and to use drag in the place of any pronoun. With some phrasings it sounded odd, so I took it as a creative writing exercise to format my responses in a way the language flowed better. I just thought it was shitty how people couldn't just ignore them if they didn't want to humor drag. I don't know if they took it serious or not, but I'd rather know I'm not being shitty to someone that is either having innocent fun, or may have some severe emotional or mental issues. We're all real people on the other side of the screen.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah. I find that my conversations with sxan are generally pleasant. If you don't make your interactions with them centered around the thorn, they seem nice.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    I used to apologize for people needlessly antagonizing them, but they said it didn't bother them, so now I just roll my eyes people can't get over it after so long now or just block them. That people just go around purposely doing petty shit like downvoting them in every comment is just a really sad look for those users.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Dragonfucker was not harmless. If you think they were, then you didn't hear their opinions about suicide. Needlessly cruel and disgusting.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I had not, no. If you've got specific examples I'm open to seeing them, but personally I've never really been the type to audit other people's comment history.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    I don't go auditing other people's history either. I didn't have to. It was public discourse, idk, a year or two ago? Plenty of examples were shared, some of which confirmed by Dragonfucker themself. I never saved any of it because why the hell would I? It wasn't that important to me.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 days ago* (11 children)

    It's a single user who likes the attention they get for it. Block and move on.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    I had to block that user for the sole reason of my brain stopping reading every time I saw that symbol, then I had to figure out what the hell it was before the brain unfuncked itself and could continue reading. I guess if I read that symbol every day, it'd get easier. But coming across that user every 3rd day or so, wasn't really enough for my brain to start automatically figuring things out on the fly. And yes, my brain is stupid and it makes me stupid as well, I know this.

    I'm already typing and reading in my 4th language, I don't need to complicate my life anymore than that. So blockety-block-block is the answer.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I have that problem when people use “it’s” when it should be “its” and vice versa. Unfortunately blocking those would leave me with a Lemmy of maybe half a dozen users.

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    [–] 40 points 2 days ago

    If you don't want to see weirdos you have picked wrong timewasting site

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  • Whenever asked they always spout some bullshit about poisoning AI.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 days ago

    Bit of a Þorny subject, eh?

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    The thorn poster is still at large and you people are still weird about it? Hasn't it been like a year?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Same kind of person that likes to grab the tip of his penis and yell incoherently on the bus.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 days ago

    to test peoples patience limit for blocking. seriously I think they think its some kind of anti ai ju ju.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 days ago

    Just one user's quirk I guess. It's a nice example of how we focus our anger at the wrong things.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    they's vvriting is simply correct orthography. our malfocussed vvitch tryalls stoop to the level of teen-agers. i say if vve are to become learnéd men, vve should actualize vvi† our aksepting times, cöoperate with our felows instead of descending into judgement.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago

    Some people have typing quirks I guess. Harmless form of self-expression.

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    They're on about people like sxan

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  • They give pronunciation guides. Or they're effing around. It's the internet.

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