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  • pitninja
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    211 year ago

    What do you mean by nefarious exactly? I don’t get the impression that it’s evil…

    • ax1900krOP
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      141 year ago

      Getting recommended months and years old posts

      • @[email protected]
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        231 year ago

        That’s not what nefarious means.

        adjective: nefarious (typically of an action or activity) wicked or criminal. “the nefarious activities of the organized-crime syndicates”

        • @[email protected]
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          -201 year ago

          I never understand people who obsess with words instead of language itself, not trying to disrespect you, but it’s like you are trying to prove a point or go in too deep, when the answer is very simple. It’s all about the context. You can safely say it’s criminal to show a month-old post in “Hot”.

          • @[email protected]
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            181 year ago

            Except that nefarious is not a direct synonym for criminal. Nefarious has a subtext of specific underhanded malicious intent, whereas criminal doesn’t have the same intentional connotations.

            If one were to read about a “Criminal website”, it might have instructions on how to make a bomb or something like that, whereas a “nefarious website” is likely to be read as looking normal but stealing your information.

            By calling the sorting nefarious, OP has (likely) unintentionally implied that there is an underlying sinister reason for the issues, which is not likely to be the case.

          • @[email protected]
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            101 year ago

            I guess I’d want to know if I was using a word incorrectly. I understand what they’re trying to say, but nefarious doesn’t make sense in this context. Maybe my pedantic correction prevents them from looking dumb in the future.

          • HamSwagwich
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            71 year ago

            Because words have meanings? If words just mean anything you want them to mean then they mean nothing.

      • @[email protected]
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        131 year ago

        I’ve been living in “Top # hours” for this reason. Active and Hot are weirdly…not.

      • Madbrad200
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        71 year ago

        Change sorting. “NewComments” and “Top x” are better than Hot and Active atm