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Have you ever heard of the theory that scammers intentionally add grammatical or spelling errors to their messages? The idea is that it increases the signal to noise ratio of their hits by filtering out people who are more savvy or capable.

Now consider that imgz's language use probably plays a similar role by filtering out users who are more demanding or have higher expectations of the service, particularly concerning support.




I never considered this but I am definitely retconning this to be canon now. I have now always built the service with this being the explicit goal.




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