crime [she/her, any]

Other than removing the ability of bigots and wreckers from hindering discussions or silencing users by burying posts with downvotes, as barrbaric said:

One healthy side effect is that it encouraged participation in discussions — if you think a take is bad enough to deserve a downvote anyway, you just need to do so in a way that associated with your user account (usually the nifty emoji.) If others disagree with your assessment, they’ll reply with why, and it starts a discussion. Now people need to post their dissent publicly.

I was apprehensive about the change when it was originally made but came around on it really quickly, it really made it much more pleasant and friendly to participate in the community.

No offense taken, I just wasn’t expecting to get read like that lmao — I guess having to operate Other People’s Servers really causes a certain kind of (recognizable) cynicism

Others have rightly pointed out that these abstractions can sometimes negatively impact muscle memory, but IMHO this only really applies if you work as devops or sysadmin

I feel both seen and called out lol

an easier approach to start with would just be to namespace them all with your initials when you set them as aliases, like rk-update, rk-scrub — then you could tab-complete them instead of doing rk --help. way less to maintain (unless you’re adding aliases from a bunch of different sources, in which case you may have bigger problems)

I don’t know for certain, but based on the screenshot I’d guess it means “Pictured” (as opposed to being dialogue)