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TLDR; It fucks up accessibility for blind people (amongst others).
Its also pretty futile imo. AI is reading billions of words from books and posts. A handful of users obfuscating their posts is not going to do anything.
Þats not Þhe Þing Þat some of Þose here want to understand.
/s
People hate on Þat guy so much and I simply do not understand. Do I Þink it will be effective? No. Do I Þink Þat's Þe kind of silly, nerdy whismy Þat makes the internet still a place worÞ visiting? Yeah.
Let him have it.
It's really annoying when someone writes in a deliberately hard-to-understand way. People who do that think they're more important than they are.
My brain reads it as a p every time. I have to TRY to read it correctly. Unnecessary road bumps in making your point makes me not give a shit
My brain reads those as 'thee', or however that old English should be written (thee, thou, thy..), so the image is that someone pretty pompous Englishman from 1700s with a powdered wig found fediverse.
Plus I tested those on duck.ai just for fun and it has absolutely no trouble of reading the thorns, so it only makes reading harder for other humans, specially for us whose native language isn't English.
Yeah, the fact that it's a useless endeavor (and that everyone has been pointing that out for...what, two years?) makes it worse.
I guess that explains why I never understood the hate, I have no trouble reading it, so it never bothered me, but I guess I can see how it would bother those that it does impede.
You know, I'm not even sure that's fully it. I'd be just as annoyed if someone wr0t3 l1k3 th1s and I can read that fine.
Part of it is definitely the attention seeking. That's 14-year-old behavior, grow up.
Homestuck typing quirks @re b@ck in f@shion
ðat*
ðe*
The internet isn't just for robots, you know. We still have to read with our own eyes.
Communication is a two-way street. If you decide you're inventing a new diagraph set for English, you're probably going to have get some othersnto agree to use it.
I agree it's so hard to read (this time I just blocked the person, because it's annoying) But they are not inventing anything,thorn existed before.
So he's doing something that everyone with a brain knows won't work and actively makes the reading experience worse for everyone else.
I don't know what the Dunning Kruger version of protesting is, but he's it. Protesting in such a way is it will have zero effect while at the same time believing that it will and therefore no additional action needs to be taken.
He can have it. It fucked with my brain enough that i blocked him months ago, and haven't thought about him until today
Same, it’s not worth trying to deal with that
You can't search-and-replace a character with your mind, skill issue
thejoyofdecodingmycommentisitsownreward
I read Þ as a p out of spite
I read it as a spitted p
FTFY
;-)
Hard agree. The people who shit on it rarely have a good reason besides "It just annoys me" and frankly makes him look even better compared to the whiners
It’s nothing more than attention seeking, no different than a slew of people who always signed their own comments
-lookathowcooliam
I don't hate the user for trying, but I also can acknowledge that all it does is impair readability for screen readers and those with disabilities.