@wiecek @L29Ah @nokitakaze @xalz@qoto.org @freemo @Vacya_Porolon@mastodon.ml @rf @freemo Thanks.
Is there a complete list of users that are blocked site-wide on qoto.org?

@L29Ah

He is literally the only one, and since he is still at it will likely remain so.

@wiecek @nokitakaze @Vacya_Porolon@mastodon.ml @rf

@freemo @L29Ah @wiecek @Vacya_Porolon
> harassed our users en masse.
Mdr le franglais

@wiecek @L29Ah @nokitakaze @xalz@qoto.org @freemo @Ryu @Vacya_Porolon@mastodon.ml @rf Ну пока я скорее доверюсь freemo, чем zlax, который и на более других площадках в общении проявил себя как довольно неуравновешенный и флудливый персонаж, интересного контента не производящий. Не знаю правда, чего freemo на него так взъелся: мне кажется если его игнорировать, он сам успокоится, а от банов только больше петушится. Впрочем, позиция zlax с доёбами до мимоюзеров тоже не ясна: ну говноеды, ну и хуй с ними, зачем тратить на них время, чёт там регать?

@L29Ah

the reason i am upset with him to the point of banning is largely the extent at which he has harassed users.

The original infraction was me discussing with him a topic that I no longer wished to discuss, I asked him to not continue the conversation with me, though he was free to discuss the topic as he wished with others or publicly, just not to tag me into future posts on it, as I was done.

He refused over the course of many days, a personal mute wasnt enough as he used multiple accounts to tag me. At that point it was upgraded to a server-wide mute and then ultimately outright ban.

At that point he had again continued to use multiple accounts not just to tag me but now other QOTO users who likewise did not welcome it and would not leave them alone. It has been so many users he has done this to I have lost count at this point, dozens, maybe even hundreds. so we continue to ban him.

Simply ignoring him is usually how I would approach this, and originally did. But when someone just creates one account after another when you refuse to talk to the person or engage them, effectively evading your mute, then that tactic does not resolve the issue for either me or our users. As such more extreme measures were needed.

@wiecek @nokitakaze @Ryu @Vacya_Porolon@mastodon.ml @rf

@Ryu

How so? It is an english term and in english spelled correctly. It is a borrow word from french however, but is now part of english as well. As far as I understand it it is spelled and used the same in french isnt it?

@Vacya_Porolon@mastodon.ml @wiecek @L29Ah

@freemo @Vacya_Porolon @wiecek @L29Ah
Ah maybe, never heard an english says 'en masse' so I assumed u were french and forgot to translate . It is spelled and used exactly in the same context in french

@Ryu

We have a great many french words we use in english, though it tends to be more common among the educated or upper class, and particularly older people. I dont really hear it as much as I used to. Some examples of french phrases that are now part of english:

* avant-garde
* carte blanche
* cliché
* crème
* cul-de-sac
* déjà vu
* faux pas
* je ne sais quoi
* liaison
* par excellence
* quel dommage
* raison
* sauté
* savoir-faire
* trompe-l’œil
* vis-à-vis
* Et voilà

@Vacya_Porolon@mastodon.ml @wiecek @L29Ah

@freemo @Ryu @wiecek @L29Ah

Well those last days we did hear a lot about a "coup" (d'état). 😶

@NicolasConstant
Yeah but the pronunciation might be different cause I didnt notice.
Do you say, coupe or cou (with or without p)

@Ryu it's the same in both language. Maybe the "C" is more accentuated than we would do in French (where this concept doesn't exists) but sounds the same nevertheless.

@NicolasConstant @freemo @L29Ah @Ryu Those are called a "gallicism"! Thanks to some teacher from a decade ago for teaching me that word.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallicism

@jpeg

Only when the borrow word is used incorrect due to similarity in transliterating is it a gallicism. Therefore en masse is not a gallicism, and I suspect neither are most of the terms on that list. Though I dont know french well enough to know if any of the words on that list could possibly be misused in english in a way to allow it to be a gallicism.

@Ryu @L29Ah @NicolasConstant

@jpeg

However if i instead had said "He harassed our users in mass" then THAT would be a gallacism.

@Ryu @L29Ah @NicolasConstant

@freemo @Ryu @L29Ah @NicolasConstant yes, now that you write it I remember that's how the teacher explained it!

A good exemple would be deception. In french, déception means disappointment.

It's funny how in that case, I can see the commonality between both words. Somebody getting deceived can be disappointed.

@jpeg

Yes but deception itself isn't a gallicism unless used in english as if it were french.

so If I said "You are always letting me down, you are a deception" that would be a gallacism. However if I said "You are always manipulating people and engaging in deception" that would not be a gallacism.

In other words you have to use a borrowed word as if its definition were the same as it is in french rather than the definition we adopted for it in english. In other words the use in english of a french borrow word in idiomatic french.

Now to be clear sometimes gallicism is used far more generally than this and can be used in its most general sense to just mean "doing it the french way", but in speech we really mean idiomatic french phrases spoken in english and comprised of french borrow words

@Ryu @L29Ah @NicolasConstant

@freemo @Ryu @L29Ah @NicolasConstant yes, I remember that also.

I had to to do a presentation on that topic. I had a few fun exemples. Obviously, it's not a concept I had to use often. ;)

Have a good day

@jpeg

Indeed, its impressive you know about the term, most people dont use or know it :)

you have a great day too.

@Ryu @L29Ah @NicolasConstant