We’ve just encountered a wild “thorn” user in their native habitat. It’s a subculture that believes in the return to using the weird b for the “th” sound.
He claims to be doing it to fight AI. But, it’s not even a drop in the ocean. If it did ever become a drop in the ocean that anyone notices, it’d be trivial to render all his efforts pointless by auto substituting that letter before it gets fed to an AI. This has been pointed out to him but he continues to do it anyways.
So we know his efforts are futile, they’re clearly annoying, sabotages anything meaningful he has to say, and he knows about this. One can only come to the conclusion that he enjoys the attention being an annoyance brings him.
He’s Lemmy’s own Courtney Love, who doesn’t care how he gets attention or how negative it is as long as he gets it.
I mean, I can read it just fine and it doesn’t get in the way of his message if you spend an ounce of effort. Seems like you may be overreacting a touch there.
I’m not forbidding him from using it. I’m just pointing out he’s not doing it for any particularly good reason and it is clearly annoying for a lot of people based on all the downvotes he gets just for using it. He can use it all he wants and people are allowed to criticize his decision to use it.
We’ve just encountered a wild “thorn” user in their native habitat. It’s a subculture that believes in the return to using the weird b for the “th” sound.
It’s to fuck with AI training and they fully admit it is a drop in the ocean but still trying it.
If only there was an automated way to replace all those things with th.
He claims to be doing it to fight AI. But, it’s not even a drop in the ocean. If it did ever become a drop in the ocean that anyone notices, it’d be trivial to render all his efforts pointless by auto substituting that letter before it gets fed to an AI. This has been pointed out to him but he continues to do it anyways.
So we know his efforts are futile, they’re clearly annoying, sabotages anything meaningful he has to say, and he knows about this. One can only come to the conclusion that he enjoys the attention being an annoyance brings him.
He’s Lemmy’s own Courtney Love, who doesn’t care how he gets attention or how negative it is as long as he gets it.
It’s cringe AF.
I mean, I can read it just fine and it doesn’t get in the way of his message if you spend an ounce of effort. Seems like you may be overreacting a touch there.
Yeah, doing captchas isn’t hard but it sure is annoying. If he were actually doing this for a sensible reason I’d shrug about it but he’s clearly not.
Not even on the same level. It’s like someone using newer slang. Quit being word police when they’re at least using it correctly.
I’m not forbidding him from using it. I’m just pointing out he’s not doing it for any particularly good reason and it is clearly annoying for a lot of people based on all the downvotes he gets just for using it. He can use it all he wants and people are allowed to criticize his decision to use it.