Comment by blell
7 hours ago
Wow, so someone opened a discord server for a community and banned an insulting word for the community? This must be a first.
7 hours ago
Wow, so someone opened a discord server for a community and banned an insulting word for the community? This must be a first.
Is "Microslop" really insulting, though?
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?
insult (verb): to say or do something to someone that is rude or offensive
Corporate personhood at its finest.
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Hey now, what's wrong with 'slop?' A farmer loves slop. It's dirt cheap, and the pigs don't seem to mind...
The branding people will hate it. Although IMHO the best thing they could do is co-opt it as a feedback term and acknowledge that AI can be hit or miss.
It is definitely an insult because it’s used pejoratively. If it is insulting I guess depends on if the target feels insulted. Seeing as they blocked the word, it seems they do.
Less insulting than Macroslop
Why wouldn’t it be? It’s a mean derivation of their company name.
It's as insulting as M$ is
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It would be mean if they weren't actually vibecoding copilot & md into notepad, introducing an RCE vulnerability.
In notepad.
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Maybe they should stop insulting their users with the slop they put out and charge for then.
If anything it is a diminutive for a company which really should have named itself Megaslop by now if not Gigaslop or even Teraslop. Poor little Microslop, are those people being nasty again?
It's insulting to good, honest slop.
Truth hurts the immature, which is also why censorship is rampant.
I would say that “microslop” is akin to the old term “micro$oft”, which was a good sign of immaturity of whoever used it.
I think the most important question here is this: Are users who post the string "microslop" generally desirable participants that will contribute in a productive manner?
I suspect not.
It depends what the purpose of the Discord channel is. Is it for open and frank discussion, or for MS drones to discuss Copilot development. It's a cliche, but banning certain words smacks of 1984-style censorship.
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An even more important question is: why does Microsoft care so much about a handful of people using that term that they are willing to risk getting Streisanded over it?
Nobody cares about banning the few idiots who do nothing but spam "MICROSLOP SUCKS MICROSLOP SUCKS". But banning the entire term "microslop", just in case someone might use it? Well, what kind of response were they expecting?
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They really showed him, didn't they?
> someone
It's Microsoft's official Copilot Discord. Microsoft banned the word