"Now about that change request ..." Had a spam post
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I want to see this post so bad.
... you guys flagged that? You're all dicks.
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Using my super TL3 powers:
@Nitin_Arora said:
hiiii everyone
It seems this person signed up to like my months old Red Dwarf joke, posted a shitty message and disappeared
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That's hardly flag-worthy. What's so bad about saying "hi everyone!"
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Dunno. It was already hidden by the time I saw it this morning.
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There's also a foreign site in their profile that seems to be being Black-Hat SEOed elsewhere. This may be a ploy to steal our Google Juice :TM:
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Yep. Profile spammer.
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Perfect, now if we could just have @ammoQ dispose of this little aside...
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As you requested, master @TwelveBaud.
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Unfortunately my superpowers of the past are gone :/
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Have a like in empathy.
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Shouldn't that be a 'like in sympathy'?
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I never had superpowers of the past, therefore I can't feel what he's feeling. However, I can feel on his behalf.
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While Modern English has tended to align "empathy" with feeling the same as someone else and "sympathy" with more loose concern, I prefer to go with the meanings implied in the Greek roots and expressed in the etymology of the words: Sympathy, or "together-feeling", means you feel the same as the other person, you are feeling "with" that person, so you're usually in the exact same situation. Empathy, or "at-feeling", means you can identify and understand what someone's feeling, attempting to take on their point of view, and feel similarly despite the difference.
pendant awarded - abarker
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Have a in neither empathy nor sympathy.
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Hiii @blakeyrat
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While your post is abundant with pedantry, you did not include enough of an important ingredient: dickweed. Though pedantry is a great and wonderful dish on its own, dickweed adds that extra bit of "zing" that really makes it memorable. It is for this reason that I cannot give you a flag for a Pedantic Dickweed badge.
Now do not think me uncaring in this regard. As one of two holders of the Viscount Pedantic Dickweed of the Most Noble Order of the Garter badge, I have also suffered such stinging reminders of the high standards that must be reached. My past struggles allow me to sympathize with your plight. But do not despair! For there is hope! Keep trying and one day you, too, may have your very own Viscount Pedantic Dickweed of the Most Noble Order of the Garter badge!
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Keep trying and one day you, too, may have your very own Viscount Pedantic Dickweed of the Most Noble Order of the Garter badge!
Or you might have an admin reply to one of your posts with a query including the secret GUID, then have the title ripped away as soon as they notice
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as soon as they notice
Come now, it took longer than that. You can't expect jobwerk to happen instantly, after all.
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While I personally feel that this one was missing a degree of dickweedery, the votes say there is enough pedantry to count.