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,

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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

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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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

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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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      1 year ago

      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