Don’t forget Morrowind where you could enchant your gear to give you a permanent 100% chameleon. Good times.

Honestly I’d guess it’s an oversight

FWIW you can kinda replicate bangs using Firefox using bookmark “keywords” (I think that’s what they’re called). They basically allow you to create a bang for any site using any trigger characters.

It could give people opportunities to vote for third parties without feeling like they’re throwing away their vote

By voting for blatant corruption instead? And tax cuts for the rich is not a policy representing the working class.

If they’re (Patreon) eating 30%, wouldn’t they lose money per transaction? I assume they take less than 30% of each subscription currently.