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Someone in this chat used a gamer phrase, “AFK” for “away from keyboard.”
Gaming is an incredibly heterogeneous space of human activity, but there are some communities where violations of social norms are not just okay, but important: “If you want to play the game, you’ve got to get over it.”
What does the violation of social norms do for a group?
They might be communicating at multiple levels in ways that are hard to see from the outside. By drawing on particular words they’ve…
