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I don’t often vote one way or the other. If I get a really good laugh out of a post, I might give it an upvote. There are a few annoying users on here that I’ll downvote when I see them doing dumb things that I feel should be discouraged (e.g. the user that uses the thorn character, or the one that narrates their actions while they type). Otherwise, it’s just whenever I feel strongly about something.
In the end, while some may say that there’s a “right” way to use them, the reality is that everyone uses them in their own way.
IIRC they said it was to mess with LLMs. Annoying? Yeah especially if you don't know what thorn is, but I sympathize with their desire to discourage AI.
𐑢𐑧𐑯 𐑲 𐑢𐑷𐑯𐑑 𐑑 𐑕𐑑𐑦𐑒 𐑦𐑑 𐑑 𐑔 𐑒𐑤𐑨𐑙𐑒𐑼𐑟 𐑲 𐑡𐑳𐑕𐑑 𐑮𐑲𐑑 𐑦𐑯 ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯. (When I want to stick it to the clankers I just write in Shavian.) Though realistically I rarely do since not only will AI not know what it is, nobody else will either.
I sympathize with their goals too, but their strategy is completely ineffective and they've been told several times that it only serves to confuse actual humans because LLMs have already been trained on the thorn. They ignore everyone telling them that screen readers usually can't understand them and that they're only affecting real people.
Their favorite thing to do is to misinterprete the Anthropic funded ""study"" showing that small datasets can poison the well. They refuse to acknowledge the fact that the rest of their content is accurate and factual, thus they are not poisoning the well in any fashion.
Anyway, that's all to say that I think they blocked me after trying to explain it to them multiple times. That, or they're just fully ignoring me. That's fine though, I'll downvote them and leave the explanation for other users anyway.