Wow how did I not think of that, surely the pattern of services getting worse to extract more money from users is due to someone saying a dirty word on the internet.

It is extremely bizarre to try to blame me for the downfall of Coursera because of the language I used to describe its downfall.

Well I like it and find it useful, so I guess we’re at an impasse and will have to let the commenter proceed.

The world is becoming double plus ungood?

Platform decay is more accurate becasue it's not about general worsification, it's about platforms specifically. I realise that "platform decay" doesn't sell books but it's perfectly usable in ordinary speech .

Yes, many slippery slopes begin with seemingly benign or even legitimate acts.

You might want to bring that up to Cory Doctorow, and tell him how he's polluting pristine minds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification:

"Writer Cory Doctorow coined the neologism "enshittification" in November 2022, though he was not the first to describe and label the concept[1][2]. The American Dialect Society selected it as its 2023 Word of the Year. "

ADS said: “From the time that it first appeared in Doctorow’s posts and articles, the word had all the markings of a successful neologism, being instantly memorable and adaptable to a variety of contexts.”

I’d recommend you write a tampermonkey script to remove bad language if you’re this sensitive to it

I think you mean 'autological'.

Ah piss.