A picture worth a thousand unspeakable words:
That screenshot was taken at 2022-05-16 07:15:26 UTC, about 14 hours ago. I’ve been busy since then.
It happened less than 20 minutes after I made the very last post on this thread with the forbidden word: Post #5220 at 2022-05-16 06:55:34 UTC. Thus, I reasonably infer the word-filtering may have been a reaction to my prior post.
Following is an appropriately Bowdlerized version of what I tried to post. If the words Are, You, Gee are doubleplusungood, then I can use radio alphabet instead: Romeo, Uniform, Golf. Hey, Are You Gee? should be a new Mike, Echo, Mike, Echo for this.
People need to start calling this proposal what it is: Are-You-Gee pull.
If it’s dressed up in fancy terms, framed in a way that plays to people’s biases, and is presented in a persuasive manner, then people don’t see it for what it is. Do garden-variety scammers pulling Are You Gees on TG label their projects “Are-You-Gee Pee You Ell Ell”? Of course not!
But the moment that somebody screams “ARE-YOU-GEE!”, everyone knows what this means.
Use the “crypto” colloquialism. It puts things in a nutshell, in a way that the ordinary person can understand instantaneously. Selling a token, then arbitrarily cancelling it, resetting people’s wallet balances, and changing it to another token in a way that sucks value away from the people who just paid real money—yup, that is obviously, indubitably, unarguably an Are-You-Gee!
In this case, applying the proper terminology is merely the act of calling out the Emperor’s New Clothes.