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I'm very familiar with it. It's a minced oath used by those who disrespect free speech so intensely they suspend any pretense of decorum and resort to childish wordplay. It's the same as FOSS activists who insist on writing "M$" instead of Microsoft.

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Restating your earlier opinion in more forceful terms is less than persuasive, but you're welcome to keep at it.

And your position is... "this is an obscure HN meme" (it isn't.) And "therefore you're wrong". Very persuasive.

I didn't say it was a HN meme. I think you could benefit from reading the HN guidelines if you want to have a good time here. They're in a link at the bottom of the page.

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