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Comment author: Fluttershy 21 October 2015 01:06:02PM *  1 point [-]

From HPMoR:

And Father had finished by saying that plays like this were always unrealistic, because if the playwright had known what someone actually as smart as Light would actually do, the playwright would have tried to take over the world himself instead of just writing plays about it.

Similarly, if somepony understood what made works of literature become popular, they might try to become a popular fan fiction writer, instead of just writing about it.

Oh, wait...

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 21 October 2015 05:28:41PM *  0 points [-]

So, ah, who is Bad Horse? Unless that'd be POWER WORD-ing someone, in which case why did you bring it up?

Comment author: Fluttershy 21 October 2015 06:34:09PM 1 point [-]

Wait, did I do something wrong? I'm not sure what you mean by power wording, unless that just means using loaded language. Sorry that I'm a dumb pony. Bad Horse is the author of this thread, and I presume that he doesn't mind me mentioning this fact since he's made that pretty easy to figure out elsewhere on LW.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 22 October 2015 10:24:29PM 0 points [-]

No, you didn't. I mis-worded a reminder to check whether the information is private, making it read more aggressively than I meant.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 21 October 2015 07:08:44PM 0 points [-]

I don't know what Power Wording is either, and Google doesn't help. Link?

Comment author: CronoDAS 22 October 2015 05:31:34PM 2 points [-]

From context, it looks like it means one of two things:

1) Some people you don't mention by name on websites, because they Google their name and, when they find it, show up and cause trouble.

2) Revealing something about someone that they'd rather keep private, a.k.a. "outing" or "doxing"...

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 22 October 2015 10:22:31PM *  1 point [-]

It's #2 - I've heard it used as an analogy to the D&D spells 'Power Word Stun' and '... Kill'. If you have an anonymous handle somewhere, then either in or out of its context, to hear of the other one could have a stunning and alarming effect.

In any case, I see from Fluttershy's comment that this is fairly public, in which case 'power word' does not apply.

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