Manfred comments on Probability and radical uncertainty - Less Wrong
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I guess it will raise the probability a little bit, but out of all eldritch-marked things I've ever seen, about 100% have been ornamental. We can't over-weight small probabilities just because they're vivid.
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Maybe we're getting different mental images for "eldrich". I assumed things that'd get me banned to even vaguely describe, not tentackles and pentagrams.