Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

mmk

Replace "IDW" with "happy people" in all of your questions and they actually become more difficult to answer. I think we can all agree that happy people exist and that membership in that category is not meaningless

I think neologisms and proper nouns ought to pay rent and try to be relatively crisp and clear. It's not obvious to me that IDW does any of these things - in fact, it may obscure more than it clarifies.

The happy comparison is useful, because if we started a club based on being happy and called it the Smiling Dark Web, and wrote articles about it, people would rightly cringe and be confused.

That makes me sad, but I suppose you do you

Presumably you're not bothered when people consider themselves "happy," only when they take that on as some kind of social identifier? I'm just not even sure what you think you're conserving here

I'd love to hash this out in DMs if you're interested. I think we're in danger of talking past each other here. Fwiw I follow many of the IDW folks and like some of them quite a lot, so my concern is in some sense just about the utility of label engineering generally...