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[Felon]

Originally Posted by Mustrum_Ridcully

Looking into specific posts is okay, but a general "ban" seems inappropriate to me. We haven't restricted "dumbed down" "stupid" and many others words that will usually be used to express something negative and includes a "judgement" by the poster.

Here's the difference. Describing an edition of D&D as "dumbed-down" is a negative reference to the edition. Describing people's reaction as "nerd rage" is denigrating to those people.

I think nerdrage is a pretty neat word, because it describes a certain "phenomena" commonly found online.

Groups of people upset about minor issues and blowing the topic out of proportion - of course as perceived by the user of the term.

Overemotional reactions are hardly new to the world. We just have a new word for baiting people who are upset. The fact that they're upset is somehow evidence that they're nerds.