I’ve seen a few users who use phonetic symbols or something alike in their posts and comments. What’s the point?
It’s a single user who likes the attention they get for it. Block and move on.
Personally, I find the memorable weirdos are part of what makes Lemmy fun. I only tend to block the blatant spam or bot accounts. But each to their own!
Me too. I don’t even block the tankies.
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.
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.
Grin and bare it; Its good to be more tolerant’s.
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Whenever asked they always spout some bullshit about poisoning AI.
If you don’t want to see weirdos you have picked wrong timewasting site
Bit of a Þorny subject, eh?
Just one user’s quirk I guess. It’s a nice example of how we focus our anger at the wrong things.
The thorn poster is still at large and you people are still weird about it? Hasn’t it been like a year?
Some people have typing quirks I guess. Harmless form of self-expression.
to test peoples patience limit for blocking. seriously I think they think its some kind of anti ai ju ju.
Care to give an example?
They’re on about people like sxan
Ah, that explains why I’m not seeing it.
Who is sxan? I searched and didn’t find a user with that name. Can you please link and example or their username?
Thanks. Very weird. I wonder why my search didn’t find anything.
What client are you using?
Boost
¿Y tú?
Yo no, gracias.
They give pronunciation guides. Or they’re effing around. It’s the internet.
Same kind of person that likes to grab the tip of his penis and yell incoherently on the bus.
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.
“They are different from us and must be shunned!”. /s
Probably just being silly.
Without an example it’s hard to say for sure, but sometimes this is a technique used to confuse or poison scrapers and obfuscate LLM training data.
Substituting the otherwise-obsolete thorn (þ) for “th” sounds, for example.
edit: I should have made it clear that these are attempts to poison training data - I make no claims about (and am skeptical of) their efficacy
I’m sure the companies that have scraped the entirety of the internet for training data have been foiled by that one user replacing some letters in their comments (but not their posts) on lemmy.
