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So, ah, who is Bad Horse? Unless that'd be POWER WORD-ing someone, in which case why did you bring it up?
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.
No, you didn't. I mis-worded a reminder to check whether the information is private, making it read more aggressively than I meant.
I don't know what Power Wording is either, and Google doesn't help. Link?
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"...
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.