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Someone left this review on my free Reddit client rdx for Reddit (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like what do I even do at this point. Its a free app and these reviews hurt app store performance,

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[–] [email protected] 235 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Standard reply:

Dear sir or madam:

Some crackpot has written me an abusive message, and it seems they used your account to send it. I'm replying to you as a courtesy in case you wish to take action against this lunatic.

[–] [email protected] 134 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing you're basing it off of this official legal correspondence, which I am including below for people who haven't seen it:

Dear Mr. Cox:

Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters.

Very truly yours,

CLEVELAND STADIUM CORP.

James N. Bailey, General Counsel

cc: Arthur B. Modell

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago

Not that, specifically, though it might be indirectly?

I'm basing it off of one of Gyles Brandreth's yarns where he described how he dealt with abusive constituents when he was a MP.

Dear sir or madam:

Some crackpot has written me an abusive letter, and they've signed your name at the bottom. [...]

Whether he came up with that or adapted it from something prior, I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Is there a They/Them for Sir or Madam? Must include that as well.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sadam.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To it may concern:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Dudes wearing high tops for sure, right?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I'd guess "To whom it may concern" would be the most gender neutral/inclusive way to rephrase that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Not that I know of. Unless someone has stated their gender or pronouns, I just use people's names and avoid anything that assumes or implies gender.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

"Dearest snookums"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

"Sir or Madam" already is a "They/Them".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

If you believe my therapist friend who is also non-normative in a relevant fashion, demands for pronouns are often 'othering' in result, and thus go from farce to force.

So, I write fewer email.