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I'd like to understand the policy to be sure I know what to avoid in the future. Is it that the choice of name in this case was already discussed? Or is discuss

I'd like to understand the policy to be sure I know what to avoid in the future. Is it that the choice of name in this case was already discussed? Or is discussing the choice of a product name considered inappropriate? Or is it that the discussion of the name in this case is too tengential to the announcement of spatial indexing? Thank You

orthecreedence 6y ago
> Is it that the choice of name in this case was already discussed? About 1000 times on every single submission of CRDB, going back years and years. In any given post about CRDB, at least half the comments are about the name. I personally don't think your parent comment is particularly inflammatory, and it seems to be more curious in nature, but it's a sensitive subject because sometimes people just want to talk about the database as a database, not as a brand.
dang 6y ago
It's the first, as orthecreedence explained. Though threads about product names are usually pretty shallow and don't make the greatest HN discussion, we wouldn't moderate them generally. This is a special case because there have literally been hundreds if not thousands of comments about it over god knows how many years, and once things have been repeated that often they become their own circle of hell. Thus, whenever something about this database gets posted, the main concern is whether the thread will get overwhelmed yet again by bickering about the name. I realize it's an arcane point if you never saw any of those previous flamewars, but the
- didibus 6y ago
  Ok thanks, that makes sense to me.
  - dang 6y ago
    That's good because I had a mangled sentence in there ("choice of product" when I meant to say "product name"). Fixed now :) Edit: oh dear, there's also a dangling at the (which I'll leave for amusement's sake)

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I'd like to understand the policy to be sure I know what to avoid in the future. Is it that the choice of name in this case was already discussed? Or is discuss

by didibus 6y ago

orthecreedence 6y ago
> Is it that the choice of name in this case was already discussed? About 1000 times on every single submission of CRDB, going back years and years. In any given post about CRDB, at least half the comments are about the name. I personally don't think your parent comment is particularly inflammatory, and it seems to be more curious in nature, but it's a sensitive subject because sometimes people just want to talk about the database as a database, not as a brand.
dang 6y ago
It's the first, as orthecreedence explained. Though threads about product names are usually pretty shallow and don't make the greatest HN discussion, we wouldn't moderate them generally. This is a special case because there have literally been hundreds if not thousands of comments about it over god knows how many years, and once things have been repeated that often they become their own circle of hell. Thus, whenever something about this database gets posted, the main concern is whether the thread will get overwhelmed yet again by bickering about the name. I realize it's an arcane point if you never saw any of those previous flamewars, but the
- didibus 6y ago
  Ok thanks, that makes sense to me.
  - dang 6y ago
    That's good because I had a mangled sentence in there ("choice of product" when I meant to say "product name"). Fixed now :) Edit: oh dear, there's also a dangling at the (which I'll leave for amusement's sake)