Makes me wonder if it would've been more effective to do something like "messages containing the word 'simp' appear with an additional 800 ms of latency." That

Makes me wonder if it would've been more effective to do something like "messages containing the word 'simp' appear with an additional 800 ms of latency." That way subtle selection pressure would just make it less common - e.g. your message appears later and people have less time to reply to it. But, the latency would be subtle enough that nobody would notice or be able to prove it was happening. Would there be a gradual decline in word use?