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> we're sorry we hurt your and other's feelings. We'll remote the Santa Hat. wow. If 4chan were to make an image about a fictional interaction like this, peop

by s9w 7y ago

> we're sorry we hurt your and other's feelings. We'll remote the Santa Hat. wow. If 4chan were to make an image about a fictional interaction like this, people would call it exaggerated. edit: this has to be a troll. I cannot believe someone would actually write like that

tomcooks 7y ago
Maybe he meant that they will host the icon remotely, so he can block it in his hosts file if he really doesn't like it.
- gmueckl 7y ago
  What?! This has to be a joke... what happened to good old program settings to disable things?
  - tomcooks 7y ago
    Yes it's a joke, he almost certainly meant remove.
Infinitesimus 7y ago
Imo that's the best reply they could have given. Certainly not a pleasant reply but it is accurate.
LaGrange 7y ago
...actually 4chan regularly runs things remarkably close with this. Sometimes they _accidentally_ turn a previously innocuous symbol into hate speech (see: "okay" gesture, welcome to 2019, where seeing someone making it makes you go and check if they're just not extremely online or actually a nazi), most of the time they just announce to the world they hang out on 4chan. The examples of less successful would be several spoof LGBT rights campaigns for, uh, unpleasant things.
- s9w 7y ago
  Yeah, I'm still not convinced if this guy is for real. But that's besides the point - them caving in to this insane demand on the spot is incredible. What's next - a word filter so I can't type "sjw" in VSCode? Seriously rethinking my decision to switch to this. This screams instability.
  - LaGrange 7y ago
    Don't panic. They're sheltered developers in a megacorp, it's most likely it's the first time they've encountered a 4chan psyop (or whatever tf this is), if they'd hear the term "nazbol" they'd probably think it's something about sports. And honestly, consider how that would go if this is a 4chan psyop: next time someone on the team says or does something genuinely horrible and gets fired, they'll have a few hundred cloned accounts calling them hypocritical antisemites.
    - mendelmaleh 7y ago
      It's almost certainly not 4chan imo. It's a real dev, with a name, profile pic, website, contact info and repos.
      - LaGrange 7y ago
        One does not exclude the other, in my experience.
himinlomax 7y ago
It may or may not be a troll, but that is irrelevant as to what makes this situation interesting: the fact that Microsoft caved in to such an incontrovertibly unreasonable request.
- s9w 7y ago
  And it kinda seems to be blowing up. They removed a shitton of comments, closed several related issues and now new bugs are being made because of this. I can only hope there is massive resitence against this.
  - huffmsa 7y ago
    I'm going to waste an inordinate amount of time today finding things I find offensive in VScode and ticketing them for removal.
    - syshum 7y ago
      Definitely time to run some keyword searches across no just the VS Code base but every Microsoft Project Any word that is even slightly offensive anywhere in the world should be reported
petecooper 7y ago
>4chan It didn't take long for /g/ to take the person's avatar and put a Santa hat on it.

by s9w 7y ago

tomcooks 7y ago

Maybe he meant that they will host the icon remotely, so he can block it in his hosts file if he really doesn't like it.

gmueckl 7y ago
What?! This has to be a joke... what happened to good old program settings to disable things?
- tomcooks 7y ago
  Yes it's a joke, he almost certainly meant remove.

Infinitesimus 7y ago

Imo that's the best reply they could have given. Certainly not a pleasant reply but it is accurate.

LaGrange 7y ago

...actually 4chan regularly runs things remarkably close with this. Sometimes they _accidentally_ turn a previously innocuous symbol into hate speech (see: "okay" gesture, welcome to 2019, where seeing someone making it makes you go and check if they're just not extremely online or actually a nazi), most of the time they just announce to the world they hang out on 4chan. The examples of less successful would be several spoof LGBT rights campaigns for, uh, unpleasant things.

s9w 7y ago
Yeah, I'm still not convinced if this guy is for real. But that's besides the point - them caving in to this insane demand on the spot is incredible. What's next - a word filter so I can't type "sjw" in VSCode? Seriously rethinking my decision to switch to this. This screams instability.
- LaGrange 7y ago
  Don't panic. They're sheltered developers in a megacorp, it's most likely it's the first time they've encountered a 4chan psyop (or whatever tf this is), if they'd hear the term "nazbol" they'd probably think it's something about sports. And honestly, consider how that would go if this is a 4chan psyop: next time someone on the team says or does something genuinely horrible and gets fired, they'll have a few hundred cloned accounts calling them hypocritical antisemites.
  - mendelmaleh 7y ago
    It's almost certainly not 4chan imo. It's a real dev, with a name, profile pic, website, contact info and repos.
    - LaGrange 7y ago
      One does not exclude the other, in my experience.

himinlomax 7y ago

It may or may not be a troll, but that is irrelevant as to what makes this situation interesting: the fact that Microsoft caved in to such an incontrovertibly unreasonable request.

s9w 7y ago
And it kinda seems to be blowing up. They removed a shitton of comments, closed several related issues and now new bugs are being made because of this. I can only hope there is massive resitence against this.
- huffmsa 7y ago
  I'm going to waste an inordinate amount of time today finding things I find offensive in VScode and ticketing them for removal.
  - syshum 7y ago
    Definitely time to run some keyword searches across no just the VS Code base but every Microsoft Project Any word that is even slightly offensive anywhere in the world should be reported

petecooper 7y ago

>4chan It didn't take long for /g/ to take the person's avatar and put a Santa hat on it.