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jberryhill

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11. This makes no sense at all
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 06:23 AM
Jun 2016

As noted by another, the ((())) has long been used in text communications to denote a virtual "hug".

So, what you are suggesting here is that when one sees that used on Twitter (presumably because one follows anti-semites, and gets in in their feed), then one should "report" this to Twitter as an anti-semitic code.

Now, what is the point of that? Do the people who run Twitter also recognize this as an anti-semitic code? In other words, when you report it to them, they will say, "Aha, found another one" and take some kind of action?

What action will they take?

And, here's the point, Twitter is perfectly capable of detecting messages using multiple parenthesis on their own system. Why on earth would anyone need to "report" to Twitter that one has seen a message using multiple parenthesis, when they are perfectly capable of detecting that string of characters being transmitted on their own platform. And, no, this has nothing to do with the use of searching for special characters via the user interface.

This makes positively no sense at all, and smacks of someone pulling someone else's leg.

I call bullshit.

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