Informal poll: me abbreviating Musk as 🦨 ("musk", odor), yea / nay? Or perhaps 🐀 like "muskrat"? I feel bad for the animal kingdom, it is handy shorthand though.
@quintessence maybe just use the guy's name? i couldn't figure why you were calling him a skunk until this post.
i like skunks. skunks are cute little stinky dudes
@2ck I like 'em too. Maybe it ends up being less of an issue on Mastodon because of the distributed nature but the main reason for stuff like this, or M*sk, and such is so people can't show up in threads and be abusive and toxic like on Twitter.
@quintessence hadn't thought of that at all. shame he doesn't have one of those names like Albrecht Bandersnatch where you can use a completely different name and people still know who you mean
@2ck Exactly yeah. It happens to people all the time who, at least on Twitter, were tweeting criticisms and such so the letter sub (M*sk) was popular to make it harder to search for so randoms couldn't find and pile onto anyone, but also when you are consistently *'ed the same letters it stops being effective for the same reason.