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How is using the word “dead” offensive?

• eropple 7y ago
  "Unproductive for discussion", then. Calling RSS "dead" will offend people who are partial to it, because there are fanboys everywhere, and that's not going to lead to a particularly useful discussion.
  • jbob2000 7y ago
    No it won’t, the title asked a question, it didn’t make a matter-of-fact statement. If you aren’t personally offended by the term, i would argue that it’s unproductive to claim that someone somewhere else under different conditions would get offended. And besides - we’re talking about a technological standard, not someone’s grandmother. On my give-a-fuck scale, a person being offended by their favourite technology standard being called “dead” is somewhere between a rat’s ass and Donald trump’s morning dump.
    • lllr_finger 7y ago
      Normally, I'd agree with you - however, my org just had some minor drama over someone attempting to classify a certain piece of tech as "dead". The people who were invested in that tech were riled up. It's difficult to know with certainty the motivations and emotional attachments people on either side of a debate will have, so it's sometimes easier to avoid some of the more "loaded" words.
    • yoz-y 7y ago
      If not offensive then tiring. This question gets asked once every few weeks and every time the answers are the same.
• gitgud 7y ago
  Asking if something is "dead" generally offends people passionate about that thing, as to them it's obviously not dead, which makes them passionately defend that it's NOT "dead".