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It can't be written for pages that use regular English. I think you missed that "smol" is an in group marker. Using such quirky in group markers like that can limit the audience or give some potential readers a bad impression from the readers opinion on such a group. It's fair feedback to suggest that if someone wants to target a larger audience that they should be careful with their language and go back to regular English.

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> Using such quirky in group markers like that can limit the audience or give some potential readers a bad impression from the readers opinion on such a group.

Good, I think the kind of people who would feel the use of "smol" impacts their enjoyment of this kind of project are not really the target audience anyway.

right, but it appears they prioritize sending a strong signal to the people this *is* for over attracting some normies. keep it smol. if I were them and I wanted to address the outgroup I might start the article with "the old computer challenge is" or "this year's old computer challenge is", for example, instead of "the old computer challenge community is".

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