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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

First of all, ~~pysch~~ psych

I'm about as pedantic as they come, and will argue that it's a separate word now and should be spelled "sike".

Wanna build someone's confidence/excitement? Psych them up, sure.

But for the specific usage that's a bait-and-switch? Sike fits better imho.