Gimmicks are allowed, and that poster is not a gimmick.
TIL zaraprochka isnāt a gimmick account
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More like you took a big shit yourself and then stepped in it.
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If somebody had their account anonymized it was presumably for a good reason and people should stop openly speculating about it because that kind of defeats the purpose.
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It wasnāt clear at the time of posting that his account had been anonymised; only that he had renamed it.
Sorry, changing topicsāI have reached the Discourse level where I can change titles. I will be changing any titles that contain āshitā, āfartā, āassā and similar words. They are cringeworthy, puerile and beneath the level of discourse of this site. If that is unacceptably presumptuous of me then I will desist.
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Please do it. And you donāt really need to notify others of your intentions, polite as it was - a consensus will emerge.
I donāt really care either way but this is a weird streak of puritanical adherence to clean language that has never made any sense to me. The word fuck can be kinder than the word love. Itās all context.
When itās in a large bold font that colleagues and children will see, itās not about Puritanism.
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I strongly agree with jal. Topic titles are the public face we present to the world and reflect on the entire community.
Fart is the standard expression in the UK, but āTrumpā used to be used as a more polite expression when I was growing up. Donāt know if that is countrywide though as I havenāt head it so much since I moved South
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Chaucer and Shakespeare are full of people farting. The prudish Victorians liked to pretend bodily functions and needs didnāt exist, but weāre getting over that now.
Itās a word we use - but we tend to talk about the weather more than farting - is it a common topic of conversation in the US?
ā¦ but there is this guy ā¦
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What does āslow modeā mean? Iām trying to de-escalate a thread I havenāt posted in for 30 minutes and Iām being prevented from posting at all.
My genuine feedback is that an hour is too long. Give people 10 minutes to think through their posts and self-regulate before responding, but an hour just shuts things down at the peak of tension and leaves people walking away with a negative experience.
We want people to de-escalate and re-engage via good-faith conversation. Not to shut things down while everyone still has a bad taste in their mouths.
IMO.
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The only way to de-escalate is for people to stop posting.
I get where youāre coming from, but I think this underestimates most of our users quite a bit.
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Ban gimmick accounts