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A huge diff that doesn't mean anything is a nontrivial cost. Documentation would also have to be changed and articles would have to be updated. Deprecating som
by platinumrad 8y ago
A huge diff that doesn't mean anything is a nontrivial cost. Documentation would also have to be changed and articles would have to be updated.
Deprecating something, even terminology, should not be done lightly.
- jachee 8y ago"That doesn't mean anything to white people", you mean? Edit: HN is Reddit now. "Downvote if you disagree."
- aiven 8y agothis is how voting works tho
- meowface 8y agoIn practice, but not on paper. HN guidelines forbid that sort of voting behavior.
- grzm 8y agoThere is no guideline on HN forbidding down voting for disagreement. 'dang as recently as a month ago reiterated this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17666145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17666145
- meowface 8y agoAh sorry, not sure where I got that idea from, then. I may've been confused by various subreddit mods establishing rules along the lines of "the downvote is not a disagree button".
- dang 8y agoYup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16574021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16574021
- jachee 8y agoSometimes the right thing is nontrivial.
- platinumrad 8y agoMaybe. I'm undecided on the issue of changing existing instances of "master-slave", but I would definitely use something else in a greenfield project. You're getting downvotes not (just) due to disagreements but because your first comment was incorrect (it's not just a sed command) and your second was unproductive.