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lurk moar

>It's uncanny how they know I don't belong there and not just because I don't say hateful things. They are very sensitive to tone.

it has nothing to do with the frequency of your hate -- I could tell you don't belong just because of your word choice here.

there are things one picks up about board culture when browsing for a respectable amount of time, and it shows in the speech patterns of their posts. amplified by high post frequency and anonymity making it the only identifier, users get _very_ good at spotting when somebody either doesn't know the culture or is relying on an incorrect/incomplete summary like you are doing here.



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