• @spicehoarder@lemm.ee
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      158 months ago

      It’s the whole anti brigading thing. But I think if you’re dumb enough to post an ass take in public circles, you deserve the heat. Mods just make it a blanket rule to blur out names so they don’t have to actually read anything lol

    • @AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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      88 months ago

      It’s a common internet thing that’s probably mostly done just out of habit, it doesn’t have any purpose like 90% of the time, but is generally the standard just for those few times where it might actually help