coaltide | Morbane's coal

In quantum wankchanics, Morbane's coal is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, of quantum wankerposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical gift may be considered simultaneously both the fic of your dreams (TFOYD) and coal, while it is unread state, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur.

The Coaltide interpretation implies that, after a while, the gift is simultaneously TFOYD and coal. Yet, when a coalie clicks on their gift, the coalie sees the gift either TFOYD or coal, not both TFOYD and coal. This poses the question of when exactly quantum wankerposition ends and reality resolves into one possibility or the other.

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And sometimes people compromise and find other communication strategies that rely on implications and mutual understanding of norms. Like saying "how are you?" which is commonly understood not to invite a lengthy honest answer to - in exchanges - say "thank you for writing." and know a lot of exchange regulars will get that it means "thanks but no thanks". It also means that some people, like you, will not understand the intended meaning and will take them literally and that's also an acceptable outcome.

I'm not sure who you think you're responding to here? My contention is that a rejection is not communication, literally, because of how the feature works, so it may or may not accomplish what you want, and if everyone behaved like that (rejecting rule-following gifts they happen to dislike) exchanges would be unpleasant and unmanageable, which is why most people outside of a very specific anon-meme milieu think it's rude to do.

Rejection is communication to anyone who is not so careless and inconsiderate about what they gift that they literally forget something was written for someone else. Seriously. You are being the unpleasant and unmanageable participant here.

Nonny, it's not communication because nothing is communicated to the gifter. It's an operational issue. You can rend your garments all you want about my or anyone else's bad memory or lack of attention, but it's just silly to rely on a non-notifying system to notify someone of something.

It's communicated to anyone who cares about the gifts they give to people, which obviously leaves you right out.

You just prove yourself a disruptive and nasty participant over and over while trying to stick it to everyone else. Smh.

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Even if they don't notice the rejection, they probably notice the lack of comment.

And on the unlikely chance that they don't notice and it continues to be an issue, you can always employ more direct methods and explicitly tell them to leave you alone.

This thread is a ride and I want to get off

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