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certain words get filtered out by the algorithms. "yahtzee" translates to "Those snappily dressed German fascists during WWII". "pron" translates to "sexually explicit material". So if you don't want your posts flagged, you have to use code words.


So it’s a dog whistle?


No, that is not a Dog Whistle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)

> In politics, a dog whistle is the use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from a particular group without provoking opposition.




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