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Excuse me a moment. You can say that "indignation about the name is off topic", that doesn't make it so. You are twisting language to suit your whims. If you h
by InclinedPlane 12y ago
Excuse me a moment. You can say that "indignation about the name is off topic", that doesn't make it so. You are twisting language to suit your whims.
If you had the guts you could say that indignation about the name is not welcome, or will be censored, or is a distraction and an uninteresting subject here on HN. But the project has a name, and the connotations of that name are relevant, as with every project. If the project were named "the impeach obama compiler" or "darren wilson" or "gas the jews" the idea that issues related to the name were "off topic" would be even less tenable than it is now.
I enjoy the maturity of the commenters on HN, and of the mods as well. But please have the intellectual honesty and backbone to be upfront about what you're doing.