lemonmelon

[Bracket City]
March 23, 2025

https://bracket.city/

☠️ hard mode!

Rank: 🔮 (Puppet Master)
🎹 Total Keystrokes: 105
🎯 Minimum Required: 105

Total Score: 100.0
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One of the emoji clues felt particularly egregious.

You seem to have come to the same conclusion I did, in a sense, but via a different route: the first option, imo, is to alert the instance admin as to what is going on within their instance. If they are unaware, they cannot stamp it out.

After they've been made aware, if they either choose to actively or passively condone such behavior then defederation is called for. If they continually "slip up" and such content falls through the cracks repeatedly after they've been made aware, that would also be grounds for defederation.

My stance is that the first course of action should be to actively push these bad actors out of spaces that they seek to take over rather than leave those spaces to them.

🙂 Daily Quordle 1151
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This one nearly got me, by the end there was only one word it could have been.

Voting against, as I don't believe that jumping directly to talk of defederation is the best option. This stance by OP, along with their suggested method of handling the recent blahaj-related posts to YPTB, gives me pause with regards to their admin status. They have not crossed the line into authoritarian behavior or admin abuse, but it does feel that they are toeing that line.

It is good and justified to spotlight these issues and bring them up for discussion and consensus, which is what OP has done in both cases, but I question the extreme suggestions made in each circumstance.

Connections
Puzzle #648
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Blue's connection was very similar to the way purple normally works today, imo.

Strands #381
“Upright and grand”
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[Bracket City]
March 19, 2025

https://bracket.city/

☠️ hard mode!

Rank: 🔮 (Puppet Master)
🎹 Total Keystrokes: 74
🎯 Minimum Required: 74

Total Score: 100.0
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There were a couple of clues that I didn't think were very charitable. I had to work backwards on them by trying to construct the next clue up in the chain.

[Bracket City]
March 18, 2025

https://bracket.city/

☠️ hard mode!

Rank: 🔮 (Puppet Master)
🎹 Total Keystrokes: 82
🎯 Minimum Required: 82

Total Score: 100.0
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The keyboard makes it so stressful.

Connections
Puzzle #646
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Wordle 1,367 5/6*

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Connections
Puzzle #645
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Wordle 1,366 4/6*

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