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You can argue that banning insults is a bad look, bad move, that the insult is warranted or whatever, but are you really going to die on the hill that calling t
by TOMDM 7mo ago
You can argue that banning insults is a bad look, bad move, that the insult is warranted or whatever, but are you really going to die on the hill that calling the company Microslop isn't insulting?
- cluckindan 7mo agoinsult (verb): to say or do something to someone that is rude or offensive Corporate personhood at its finest.
- wraptile 7mo agoPeople do work at Microsoft though and they're probably aren't very happy when their work is called slop. You could even say they are feeling insulted or offended.
- crote 7mo agoSee, that requires the code to be written by an actual human being, who has agency and a sense of pride and ownership about their work. Maybe there are still some teams deep inside the bowels of Microsoft that management has forgotten about that still operate like that, but judging by the way the user-facing parts of its products have developed, the mass firings, and the pushing of AI-driven development by upper management, it seems very clear to me that there's very little risk of insulting anything anyone actually cares about.
- miningape 7mo agoSimple. Don't produce slop then. If it offends you so much that people call your work as it is, you should do better work, grow some thicker skin, or stop.
- wraptile 7mo agoI'd agree but if you ever been on the receiving end of a meme-train you'd see that it's not driven by rationality. I'm not familiar with this issue but my bet would be that even hand-crafted personal projects were being called slop because once meme runs away from initial meaning it just becomes closer to swear word than a meaning.
- bigfishrunning 7mo agoIf there was a lot of handcrafted personal projects coming from Microsoft, their reputation would change. But there isn't. I would imagine anyone who is interested in "handcrafted personal projects" sees the writing on the wall and is at least looking to leave Microsoft, which seems to be positioned to be the Prime Slop Factory.
- TOMDM 7mo agoWhy just make up a definition? From the oxford dictionary: Noun: speak to or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse. Verb: a disrespectful or scornfully abusive remark or act. Note the lack of personhood in those definitions. I can insult an object, event, person, corporation or even an idea.
- cluckindan 7mo agoThe definition is from the Cambridge dictionary. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/insult https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/insult
- schiffern 7mo agoHey now, what's wrong with 'slop?' A farmer loves slop. It's dirt cheap, and the pigs don't seem to mind...