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[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

And I would argue that explaining why people dont like the usage of "this" is not more useful than people writing "this" because of the Streisand effect we’ve witnessed and that you and I have now created is even more detrimental to a thread because it creates a distraction from the original topic. We now have a subtopic competing for brain cycles that clearly adds no value and is likely making us all stupider.

I award us no points, and may God have mercy on our souls.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But wouldnt that reply to the "this" comment and this subtopic discourage people from writing "this", making a subtopic like this rarer, but also reducing the total number of new useless comments?

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

I mean
Honestly it only made me more likely, and I would have replied with it if someone else hadn't already done so

[–] otherKarl@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago
[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Amen, brother!