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

  • DrownedAxolotl@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      I hate the 2020s. Can we just go back a couple years, back when meme pages didnt have sticks up their arses?

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        1 year ago

        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.

        • marty_relaxes@discuss.tchncs.de
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          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.

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      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

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        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

      • DrownedAxolotl@lemmy.ml
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        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).

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          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.

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        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.

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          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