Hello PCMR community!
On July 13th, we asked the community for your opinion if you would like to change the name of this community.
Results of the Survey :
- Yes - 28.1%
- No - 71.9% (winner)
Of the 1,201 responses received, we as a community have democratically decided that we should not change the name from PC Master Race. I am grateful to our community for your input, as this was a difficult topic to navigate together.
If you would like to review the history of this, please check out this post here: https://lemmy.world/post/1430610
We'll pin this post for some time and then consider adding a bullet into the sidebar for this Community to help stave off further discussions around this topic as the community has already decided collectively.
Kind regards,
The Moderator Team
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EDIT 30-Aug-2023:
Due to some of the recent targeted attacks against Lemmy.world, I noticed that the image I shared with this post was purged from their servers.
Here's a new screenshot of the results for posterity: https://i.postimg.cc/jqNg5gWx/pcmrsurvey.png
My God, this is still going on. I'm still having trouble comprehending whether this is just a very elaborate parody. The term "master race" is not in any way offensive and even if it is (to a small amount of people) they are perfectly within their right to be offended, but not to ban other people from using it.
I hate the 2020s. Can we just go back a couple years, back when meme pages didnt have sticks up their arses?
I mean, people were saying the same thing when it became not cool to call someone a gay slur for fun. Language evolves, and with it, what is acceptable evolves.
I personally am not offended by PC Master Race, but I also don't give a fuck about the name, so what's it really gonna hurt rebranding?
Honestly don't get the attachment. Not like it's particularly clever or anything.
It's kind of my take as well, personally don't really care but that in turn means I also don't really care for a change.
But it also appears like a lot of people espouse the 'who cares about this' with a strong slant of simultaneously defending the status quo. I honestly felt the same when there was the whole master -> main phrasing change in a lot of git repository hosters.
Have not been there to see the discussion, but I have been seeing the shift the last couple years in tech on termonology.
Branch Names: master -> main
Distributed Systems: master/slave -> primary/secondary
Security: Blacklist/Whitelist -> Blocklist/Allowlist
And this is a good thing. Those changes are far more clear on their intention and it avoids some dated language that makes some folks uncomfortable. It's win/win.
Master can only be used in the context of slavery? Seriously??
What about my masters degree? Shall I call that mains degree too?
I agree with your overall message but we’re really in the fucking weeds with some of this stuff
I kinda noticed the first one, but didn't think it had anything to do with taking offense. The second one I haven't noticed at all as well as the third one (the third one is especially bullshit in my opinion).
Probably will take awhile to trickle down if it even sticks on the latter two. My exposure was IETF working groups that write up RFC standards.
I refuse to go out of my way leave master for main, literally who cares?
Do people take the same issue with a human master of animals and such too?
Just wild that we’re trying to forever burn these words. Languages should be allow to evolve not cut apart and banned
Am I gonna have to refer to my masters degree as a mains degree now? Lol