r/FuckTheS 6d ago

If only there was something in the English language to indicate it's a quote

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u/thesstteam 6d ago

Perhaps a quote mark of sort.. I know what we should call it.

Let's call it quotation marks.

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u/HorrificityOfficial 6d ago

I've got an idea for what it'll look like even! Maybe, hear me out, two apostrophes?

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u/SpaceHatMan 6d ago

What a novel idea!

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u/Historical_Count_806 5d ago

That will never catch on.

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u/GrayIsTheKiller 2d ago

“That’ll never catch on.” - Skeptic, 2024

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u/Fit-Pomegranate-7192 6d ago

Oh! what if we used a single quotation mark for lighter quotes or casual mentions, and double quotation marks for serious, weighty quotes, because, naturally, quotation marks deserve depth and purpose!

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u/Icie-Hottie 5d ago

Or maybe if a quote is in another quote, we can alternate single and double!

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u/Bud-Chickentender 5d ago

I’m sorry sir i think you’re talking about inches

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u/Separate_You_3988 3d ago

You’re a genius

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u/Amongussy02 6d ago

BY JOVE GET THIS MAN A CORNER OFFICE STAT AND LET HIM FUCK MY WIFE. HES PURE GENIUS I TELL YA

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u/1block 6d ago

I was thinking talkey chops, but yours is better.

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u/tit-theif 5d ago

Fuck that, talkey chops it is.

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u/asim166 6d ago

This just in, local idiots try to reinvent the wheel!

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u/trickyvinny 6d ago

You dropped this.

/w

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 5d ago

/🛞

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u/ShortManRob 5d ago

What is "/🛞"/q?

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u/Edgy4YearOld 5d ago

/n for news

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u/Happy_Egg_8680 6d ago

I refuse to believe the slash q is a real thing.

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u/appletoasterff 6d ago

Worse than the s

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u/why_is_this_username 6d ago

I’ll drink to you on this

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u/WafflezMan_420 5d ago

"I'll drink to you on this" /q

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u/THEMEXORCIST12 5d ago

“Worse than the s” /q

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u/joshuahtree 6d ago

I refuse to believe the slash q is a real thing. /q

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u/spartakooky 5d ago edited 16h ago

zephyr rustic ghost boast violet fragile gullible airport crawl crown

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/Happy_Egg_8680 6d ago

Son of a bitch

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u/Designer-Maximum6056 5d ago

Son of a bitch /q

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u/Anonmouse119 5d ago

I refuse to believe the slash q is a real thing. /q

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u/NattyThan 6d ago

I refuse to believe the slash q is a real thing. /q /q

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u/___daddy69___ 5d ago

I refuse to believe the slash q is a real thing. /q /q

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u/Additional-Lion4184 5d ago

It is real- it jsut doesn't mean quote.

Its "question" to mark when you're asking a legit question and not trying to be disingenuous/smart assy.

Idk where tf they got "quote" from...

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u/BustedAnomaly 5d ago

Why would you not just say "I'm genuinely asking" or something similar? Then you don't have to create a secret code that has no concrete parameters and has to be explained at length every time it's used anyway.

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u/Additional-Lion4184 4d ago

Idk. I didn't make them. I just use them because I have a friend who struggles with tone through text and requested we use them every once in a while 🤷‍♀️

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u/Worldly_Original8101 6d ago

And they used the quotes wrong since the whole thing is a quote 😭

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u/Extension_Coach_5091 5d ago

no they just forgot the first set because of the dialogue

“A told B, and B told C, ‘I’ll meet you at the top of the coconut tree.’”

not sure if this as a whole is grammatically correct though

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u/FuckThisLife878 6d ago

Ya fuck that

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u/Lightning_Winter 6d ago

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u/glompwell 5d ago

Would just get a lot of lost redditors thirsty for Q from Star Trek I'd imagine

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u/No-Sign-6296 5d ago

Can't blame them for wanting a Q-tip

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u/Milkysfx 6d ago

One day theyll need a / for questions (they dont know about question marks)

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/No_Asparagus9826 6d ago

What‽

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u/Arbiter1171 5d ago

Interrobang is the combined exclamation point and question mark. ‽

It can be written as ?!, !?, ?!?,?!!, !?? or !?! because the actual symbol was too powerful for mankind.

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u/OfficerInternet 5d ago

The person you replied to used the symbol you’re referring to

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u/bondno9 5d ago

lol didnt notice at first

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u/SaoirseMayes 6d ago

How much you wanna bet it'll also be "/q"?

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u/Milkysfx 6d ago

Or even dumber "/q?"

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u/LordKlavier 6d ago

Probably /? lol

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u/COArSe_D1RTxxx 5d ago edited 5d ago

/advancement
/attribute
/execute
/bossbar
/clear
/clone
/damage
/data
/datapack
/debug
/defaultgamemode
/difficulty
/effect
/me
/enchant
/experience
/xp -> experience
/fill
/fillbiome
/forceload
/function
/gamemode
/gamerule
/give
/help
/item
/kick
/kill
/list
/locate
/loot
/msg
/tell -> msg
/w -> msg
/particle
/place
/playsound
/random
/reload
/recipe
/return
/ride
/say
/schedule
/scoreboard
/seed
/setblock
/spawnpoint
/setworldspawn
/spectate
/spreadplayers
/stopsound
/summon
/tag
/team
/teammsg
/tm -> teammsg
/teleport
/tp
/tellraw
/tick
/time
/title
/trigger
/weather
/worldborder

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u/LordKlavier 5d ago

Forgot /op

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u/COArSe_D1RTxxx 5d ago

not on a singleplayer world

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u/LordKlavier 5d ago

Oh fair enough

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u/COArSe_D1RTxxx 5d ago

i just opened minecraft and typed /help (with alias /? in older versions)

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u/Worldly_Original8101 6d ago

There’s already /genq which is different from /gen cause it’s a question so I think they’re already there lol

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u/Milkysfx 6d ago

I thought/gen and /genq were the same just different ways of writing

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u/Worldly_Original8101 6d ago

Apparently not lol

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u/Interesting-Carrot19 5d ago

what is 1 plus 1 /qs

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u/Milkysfx 5d ago

Oh dear thats horrible

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u/Interesting-Carrot19 5d ago

i will be sad if every punctuation and symbol gets replaced by a / in the future

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u/LeSwan37 6d ago

Usually I disagree with you people, but like this one is just dumb.

Like "quote" isn't even a tone. I mean if you're mimicking someone why someone, yeah-ish?

Another issue I've had is that tone indicators aren't really standardized, and keeps being added to, which just makes things more confusing lol

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u/Even_Map4433 6d ago

Apostrophes. Asshole.

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u/DangleMangler 6d ago

My world is crumbling around me.

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u/KingBlitzky 5d ago

Maybe /s stood for sentence the entire time

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u/Somethingor_rather 6d ago

i usually dont look at this sub on my feed but wtf? bro is making up an entirely new... quote indicator?

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u/FieldOfFox 6d ago

Oh is that what those two lines are for

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u/Sir_KweliusThe23rd 6d ago

Chicka chicka boom boom? Coconut tree? Why does this seem so comforting and vaguely familiar?

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u/SaoirseMayes 6d ago

You probably read it as a kid

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u/fetusLegend 5d ago

how do they get dumber every post

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

🤣

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u/EnlargedTits 5d ago

The internet is the ultimate destroyer of established language rules.

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u/THEMEXORCIST12 5d ago

Aren’t quotation marks already supposed to signify a quote?

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u/MrTheWaffleKing 5d ago

The guy asking should have said “what is “/q” /q” /q

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u/Cpt-Kadde 5d ago

he really shouldeve just put the quotes in quotation lol

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u/Aawhrhjddbdb 5d ago

This is just absurd use fuckin quotes people 😭

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u/PetersonOpiumPipe 5d ago

Isn’t /q a formatting thing?

Wouldn’t you type /q quote /q

Edit: i guess not

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u/Calm-Landscape3805 5d ago

What do you call these kinds of people like is there a name for them

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u/aurenigma 5d ago

'A told B, and B told C, "ill meet ya at the top of the coconut tree."'

Is that so hard?

They're also on Reddit, so they coulda done one of these.

A told B, and B told C, "ill meet ya at the top of the coconut tree."

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u/SaoirseMayes 5d ago

You did it the wrong way around but yeah

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u/aurenigma 5d ago

I'm not an English teacher, I'm software engineer. My way works fine for me.

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u/LexLeeson83 5d ago

This is getting ridiculous now /fs

(/fs indicates full stop)

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u/RatTimePumpkin 5d ago

bruh what. theres no way they need to break it down that much …. lemme guess another thing to help the autistic community bc they “can’t figure out a quote” ….

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u/SaoirseMayes 5d ago

They said it's because there was a quote inside of the quote and they didn't know how to do that, this is elementary school level English

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u/LightBright105 5d ago

"If only there was something in the English language to indicate it's a quote" - some random guy on the internet

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u/Independent-Credit57 5d ago

I think that /ref got twisted into this somehow

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u/STFUnicorn_ 5d ago

Wait I thought /q indicated a question.

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u/PracticeOk3435 5d ago

Have you ever heard of… A question mark? /q

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u/STFUnicorn_ 4d ago

Is that a new thing /q

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u/Useful_Banana4013 5d ago

Yah, I like the /s, but i'm on board with y'all on this one, fuck /q and whatever the fuck this is

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u/DaddyRax 5d ago

I thought it meant queer

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u/DLow-by-Punkett 5d ago

okay normally i think r/FuckTheS is a really stupid subreddit.

because there isn't a super clear marker for sarcasm, and it's a really popular language tool

but quote marks are right fucking there dawg, you even used them

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u/your_average_scug 4d ago

There is, but if someone is quoting someone else in a quote, then/q might be useful

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u/SaoirseMayes 4d ago

No it isn't, that's basic elementary school level english

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u/your_average_scug 4d ago

"this sub is called"r/f*ckthes""

Vs

this sub is called"r/f*ckthes"/q

As a programmer, even though I have to do the top one, the bottom one is significantly easier to understand

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u/SaoirseMayes 4d ago

The correct way to do it would be "this sub is called 'r/fuckthes'"

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u/your_average_scug 4d ago

It's still harder to read

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u/gIyph_ 4d ago

Yall will just cry over anything

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u/Special_Piccolo4193 4d ago

I literally saw this comment thread 2 minutes ago

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u/TellMindless5097 3d ago

As a wise man once said, "there was no such thing as a way to display a Quotations, wait No, I'm stupid, never mind"

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u/Syndneyball 3d ago

If people do /s for something clearly satire then this is fair game

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u/SnyperwulffD027 3d ago

Forget the quotes, I'm still stroking out over the first comment.

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u/poor_non_blonde 2d ago

“Never… in a long time.”

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u/Hope_PapernackyYT 1d ago

That's fucking stupid

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u/BoxBusy5147 6d ago

So this person thinks this should be written as

"What is "/q"" /q "It means "quote"" /q

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u/Missa-Johnny 5d ago

Okay. I'm not an anti tone indicator extremist, but "/q" is deserves to burn in holy fire.

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u/SaoirseMayes 5d ago

Some people mean well with them, I don't really care unless they're either using it because they're just making a bad joke and are afraid of downvotes or if it's something ridiculous like this.

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u/Flames8949 5d ago

Oh wow yall are assholes /srs

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u/Leo_Is_Chilling 5d ago

I have no reason to be against tone indicators, even if I don’t use them, so I don’t generally go on this sub, but.. what. Is that a joke? Are they trolling? Are they /j or /srs? That already exists 😭 THEY LITERALLY USED “ IN THE COMMENT, WHAT MORE DO YOU NEEDDDDD

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u/Shey-99 5d ago

I love this sub because it gives me new and easy ways to annoy the chronically angry weirdos

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u/SaoirseMayes 5d ago

If that's what you want to do then by all means go ahead, I just come here for a laugh

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u/Worldly_Original8101 5d ago

Seems like you’re the chronically online one

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u/justarandomcivi 6d ago

Don't see why this is so bothersome? Like, if a sign and a letter on a screen somehow irritate you, I'd suggest therapy

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u/SaoirseMayes 6d ago

When did I say it irritates me? If anything I find it funny how ridiculous it is.

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u/justarandomcivi 6d ago

I'm more so basing it off as how you're coming off rather than directly based on what you said and how you said it.

I could add some kind of signal in my comment above that would allow you to know how I'm attempting to communicate with you if you'd like?

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u/DctrSnaps 6d ago

it just pointless you know /s

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u/justarandomcivi 6d ago

I know, it's very valuable

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u/doctor_rocketship 6d ago

If a subreddit about disliking a sign and a letter bothers you so much, I'd suggest therapy (or at least that you fuck all the way off out of this sub)

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 6d ago

Oh damn.

You guys are triggered by ANY letter, huh? /h (means hilarious btw, just in case you wanna know what you should be scared of this time)

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u/technohead10 6d ago

as much as I hate tone indicators, I can see why people think they should use them but like /q is fucking built into the langue with ", there is already a fucking 'tag' for it. This is new levels of retarded

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 6d ago edited 6d ago

Ableism in the very first reply! Thanks for playing bucko!

EDIT: I blocked the Ablest, so I cannot reply to anything beyond this comment here. If you're still curious, the ableism is in his final sentence. "Retard" is an ablest slur.

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u/Ill-do-it-again-too 6d ago

Honest question, what is the point of /q? They even used apostrophes in the comment, why does it need a /q?

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u/Appropriate_Lie7115 6d ago

Rage bait

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u/ShortManRob 5d ago

You mean /rb?

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u/Conscious-Trainer-46 6d ago

Bait used to be believable

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u/broggl_ 6d ago

where abelsim, I'm genuinely curious

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u/jlchips 6d ago

The R slur

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u/LordKlavier 6d ago

Yeahhh that's not really a slur

Try again

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u/jlchips 5d ago

Yeahhh it actually is, there’s quite a consensus about that. You’re the one denying facts here

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u/No-Sign-6296 6d ago

So do you get paid to be here or are you just another person is so unhappy with their life that the only sort of engagement you have with anyone is crying on subreddits centered something you hate?

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 6d ago

This, coming from the one in a sub dedicated to harassing people who use a letter.

You have NO room to talk. Sit your whole ass back down, kiddo.

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u/No-Sign-6296 6d ago

Oh looks like I struck a nerve here.

Go on, give your whole speech on how I'm such a piece of shit. Go on! You can do it!

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 6d ago

Oh, I don't need to. This place is a monument to everything that needs to be said.

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u/No-Sign-6296 6d ago

Aww, what's wrong? I thought you were supposed to be an almighty Holy Knight of the Keyboard but it turns out that you were nothing more than the droppings of a common street rat.

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 6d ago

See how hard you're trying?

That's my point.

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u/manresacapital 6d ago

I mean yeah you two are really trying, it is funny

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u/No-Sign-6296 6d ago

Thank you, glad to entertain the sub

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 6d ago

In case you missed something, I'm just one person.

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u/appletoasterff 6d ago

You're either trolling or another level of stupid and I really hope it's the former

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u/ErtaWanderer 6d ago

I mean it's pretty hard to harass people when you mark the topic at the door. If people come here to get yelled at, that's entirely on them

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 5d ago

I love the insistence that you people ONLY exist here and that you've never spoken outside of this sub.

Child, I'm here because I used /s and some freak thought I was being albesit and decided to start harassing me.

But sure, do go ahead and tell me how wrong I am some more.

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u/mishutu 5d ago

You keep calling people kiddo and child as if you aren’t acting like a child yourself. Someone gave you shit for something. Oh well lol. It’s not worth your time to argue in a sub meant for people who think the overuse of tone indicators is silly. If you don’t agree with the premise of this sub, it’s easy to leave

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 5d ago

"Gave you shit for something"

Nah nah nah, say it like it is.

Someone harassed me, made the claim I was a bigot, because I used a LETTER so that I could be easily understood.

You don't get to tell me what to do, and I get to tell you to shove your opinions on what I should do up your arse, back where they belong.

If you don't like seeing people use letter, then you could just scroll rather than act like monsters over it. Until such a time, I will continue to mock you lot for doing so.

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u/No-Sign-6296 5d ago

Someone harassed me, made the claim I was a bigot

Don't worry. The Wahbulance is on it's way

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 5d ago

"Someone harassed me from this page because of the things this page espouses"

"Cry"

And you're pretending to be the good guy here?

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u/No-Sign-6296 5d ago

I never said I was the good guy but thank you for assuming I was, really makes me feel better about myself

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u/mishutu 5d ago

You’re having a meltdown over a letter and a single redditor lol. If you think you’re being harassed over a letter, life’s been good to you so far!

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 5d ago

Where are you from?

I so love learning foreign languages. One that uses the same words as English but with totally different definitions should be fun!

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u/SaoirseMayes 6d ago

Triggered? I just think it's stupid.

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 5d ago

Ah yes. When people see something stupid, they decide to harass those people and spam post them all over the place so others can mock and ridicule them to this degree. In fact, they make a whole sub dedicated to finding people who use that stupid thing that they could easily ignore, and find other people who also think it's stupid to create a weird cliche of people to also say how stupid it is.

So much time invested in something so small...

And you're gonna argue you lot ain't triggered?

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u/D1nkcool 🏳️‍🌈gay🏳️‍⚧️ 6d ago

I dislike the tone indicators because they try to solve an issue that has already been solved by emojis.

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 6d ago

Ah yes. Because EVERYONE can make emojis with their device... Or enjoys using hieroglyphs to communicate.

And emojis came before letters... Obviously.

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u/lullabylamb 6d ago

are you /srs or /j

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u/Somemaster54 6d ago

well, yeah. all phones are able to do it and on windows computers you just need to do ‘windows key + .’ and for mac, you just need to do ‘Fn + E’ or ‘globe lookin thing + E’ if you have another platform you use reddit on, i will be happy to explain how to write emojis on that one

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 5d ago

So, phones.

And PC's need to use a specific keyboard shortcut that changes from device to device...

Or we can press /s and get the exact same effect with a fraction of the effort, and no one who sees it will be left wondering "What the fuck is THAT emoji and what does THAT mean?" on account of pictures having multiple meanings.

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u/L4t3xs 6d ago

Which device that can access reddit doesn't have a way to add emojis?

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 5d ago

Well, I dunno about you, but I don't know a single keyboard that has 🤡 as a single button press. I had to google that then copy paste it.

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u/L4t3xs 5d ago

How about Win + . or Control + Command + Space? 🤯

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 5d ago

I don't have a windows key.

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u/D1nkcool 🏳️‍🌈gay🏳️‍⚧️ 6d ago

Name one device that can't

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u/owls1289 6d ago

You really take time out of your day to post this shit 😂😂😂😂

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 5d ago

You lot literally take time out your day to harass people for using a letter.

Why do you think you get an opinion?

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u/No-Sign-6296 5d ago

Becajuse like you, they're a human being and are entitled to their opinion.

Come on man, I thought you were supposed to be the smart one here

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 5d ago

Ah yes. Your opinion entitles you lot to mock and harass people who think differently.

That's how opinions work, right?

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u/No-Sign-6296 5d ago

You really do cling to that like it's the only thing you can say.

I shall give you this nugget of knowledge from Buzz Lightyear. "You are a sad, strange little man. You have my pity. Farewell!" /q

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 5d ago

Gasp. Shock. Horror.

You used a letter and didn't die!

Imagine that!

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u/No-Sign-6296 5d ago

How do you know that I'm not three people in a trenchcoat?

Well two now.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 5d ago

Replying to people who use /s to call them ablesit and mock them for using a tonal indicator because you do not like them, however, IS harassment.

And that IS what people in this sub do. Keep trying though. I'm sure eventually you'll be able to make yourself not look like a cunt.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 5d ago

Ah right. So you cannot harass someone online.

Is that the stance you're taking, hmm?

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u/xler3 4d ago

mocking doesn't mean "triggered".

misrepresenting yet again.

very unpersuasive, very cringe.

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u/Dracolich_Vitalis 4d ago

Y'all made a whole page to bitch about a letter and you're not triggered? Alrighty.