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by encypruon 2230 days ago
I can't find it now, but there was a post on HN where someone shared a report regarding their social media activity. It was compiled by a firm that offers to "research" potential employees.

If I remember correctly, it included a twitter account that was not obviously linked to the persons name.

There was an entry for every (re-)tweet that contained swearing, associated with a negative score.

Also, if you're swearing on public platforms, you almost never know if/how the platform itself may react. Maybe it affects the likelyhood of your contribution(s) being shown to others.

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I don't doubt that this happens, but I think so much less of someone that would go into my Twitter and assign a negative ranking to each swearword in an effort to compile a metric of "me", that I wouldn't want to do business with them.

In that regard, adding more motherfucking swearwords in my bullshit comments serves as a great fucking way to deter any asshole cunt that thinks such metrics are a good goddamn idea. Dick pussy ass.

Haha, that's funny, though at times it feels like they're just adding the word "fucking" to phrases.