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But sure, I suppose some clarification on these sort of nitpicky devil-in-the-details sort of situations wouldn't be a bad thing...
And the admins know that, but they also know this: trolls are gonna troll. If they present a list of 'what not to do', trolls won't do those things: They'll just do *other* things.
By listing the rules, they're showing their cards to people and saying "you can get away with it *if*...". Ask the admins: No one knows the rules better than those who attempt to circumvent them daily.
And an effective curse ("*may you* fucking choke etc etc") is still not a threat. Curses are not threats, not unless we've discovered that magic invocations actually *work*. You not being fond of them is irrelevant: no one promised you'd be fond of everything you read here.
Comment by verdatum at 14/05/2015 at 18:08 UTC
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By "not fond" I suppose I was being soft. I could clarify to say if that was no longer allowed I would not be upset about it.
There's a bit of a difference between doing something like revealing the algorithms used by automod scripts, and making it explicit what sort of things you can and cannot do. The later deals more with intent. And yes, intent can sometimes be difficult to determine, and it is something that must be examined on a case-by-case basis.
But it sounds like that is what Reddit inc. is interested in doing; and as long as they have good ground rules to start from then, I don't see any reason to get up in arms about it.