It’s #2 - I’ve heard it used as an analogy to the D&D spells ‘Power Word Stun’ and ‘… Kill’. If you have an anonymous handle somewhere, then either in or out of its context, to hear of the other one could have a stunning and alarming effect.
In any case, I see from Fluttershy’s comment that this is fairly public, in which case ‘power word’ does not apply.
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(I’m rather confident that this comment wasn’t harmful, but I’m deleting it anyways, in case I was wrong.)
So, ah, who is Bad Horse? Unless that’d be POWER WORD-ing someone, in which case why did you bring it up?
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No, you didn’t. I mis-worded a reminder to check whether the information is private, making it read more aggressively than I meant.
I don’t know what Power Wording is either, and Google doesn’t help. Link?
From context, it looks like it means one of two things:
1) Some people you don’t mention by name on websites, because they Google their name and, when they find it, show up and cause trouble.
2) Revealing something about someone that they’d rather keep private, a.k.a. “outing” or “doxing”...
It’s #2 - I’ve heard it used as an analogy to the D&D spells ‘Power Word Stun’ and ‘… Kill’. If you have an anonymous handle somewhere, then either in or out of its context, to hear of the other one could have a stunning and alarming effect.
In any case, I see from Fluttershy’s comment that this is fairly public, in which case ‘power word’ does not apply.