Don’t they have better things to do? Maybe vibecode a taskbar that moves when you try to move away the mouse over it or perhaps a windows 12 installation procedure that requires a fecal sample and iris scan?
bartread 2 hours ago [-]
> installation procedure that requires a fecal sample and iris scan
Do you work for Microsoft or something? Please do do not give them ideas.
zelphirkalt 47 minutes ago [-]
"Only for your own good!™" or alternatively: "Security next level! Fingerprint was yesterday. The future is Microsoft's new iris scan." and then it is built in a way, that you can simply hold up a photo of someone's iris and unlock the device, or trying to prevent that, works so badly, that half of the time you cannot unlock your own device.
yard2010 12 minutes ago [-]
Maybe facebook can ride on this and let you share your feces with your friends family and groups of strangers from the internet! They can run models that predict what you ate and show relevant ads.
benterix 38 minutes ago [-]
> "Only for your own good!™"
Very few things trigger me more than this doublespeak.
kotaKat 1 hours ago [-]
“Featuring a partnership with Kohler Health and the Dekoda toilet camera and Withings and their UScan piss sensor…”
bombcar 56 minutes ago [-]
“Please drink Exlax verification can”
leni536 1 hours ago [-]
> requires a fecal sample
So requires the user to log in?
gchamonlive 1 hours ago [-]
> So requires the user to log in?
Only on premium subscriptions, for free users you need your neighbour's stool sample.
fecalprinter26 32 minutes ago [-]
Combine fingerprint biometric with fecal samples for a convenient "fecalprint" button. The user doesn't even have to go into the bathroom! It can be microslops version of Apple's TouchID.
yard2010 15 minutes ago [-]
You're absolutely right! It's not just a fecalprint button, it's a feces platform!
Foobar8568 34 minutes ago [-]
In different canton (equivalent to US states) in Switzerland, you take the sample at home, and go to the post office to send it.
So why not to create a M365 account? International dispatch to the US :D
devld 7 minutes ago [-]
> a fecal sample
a micro shit (tm)
orwin 2 hours ago [-]
I can really see them ship the first, that's at the same time very funny, and quite sad.
__s 2 hours ago [-]
first one is a really slick tooltip ui to make sure people read tooltips. hover over button, it slides out while revealing tooltip text in its place, move cursor to button again
if you want to make sure people read a lot of instructions you can chain this so that you need to hover over the button multiple times, revealing the instructions a bit at a time
xattt 2 hours ago [-]
“Your sample was insufficient. Please try again later.”
Best we can hope for is Microsoft dogfoods the feature first.
pixl97 1 hours ago [-]
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
ralferoo 3 hours ago [-]
Hehe, this reminds me of 30 years ago when people used to stylise it as Micro$oft or creatively misspell it as Microshaft, etc. Even on the Amiga, there was the filesystem that could read PC format disks that was called MessyDos. It just seems like the next generation has discovered what an easy name it is to make puns from.
st_goliath 3 hours ago [-]
If you're German-speaking: "Klopilot" and "Vibrierkot" are some modern day personal favorites.
On a similar, nostalgic note, I recall boot screens for "Sinnlos 98" floating around, back when modifying the bootup logo was a thing.
AndyPa32 2 hours ago [-]
There are regions in Germany (Hessen) where "Azure" is pronounced the exact same way as "Ärger" (trouble). Makes you think...
ThreeFx 1 hours ago [-]
Wow, that's incredible. Even though I'm from Hessen, I never thought of making that connection!
Zigurd 1 hours ago [-]
For Latvians Windows Vista was pretty funny cluck cluck.
froh42 1 hours ago [-]
Ok, Vibrierkot is something for the German shitpost communities with all my Zuhausis im Zwischennetz.
defjm 57 minutes ago [-]
You made me laugh, thanks.
croes 1 hours ago [-]
Don’t forget Kleinweich
adornKey 3 hours ago [-]
"Der Ätsch-Browser".
wasting_time 1 hours ago [-]
MS-DOS itself is derived from QDOS, which stands for "Quick and Dirty Operating System".
Things only went downhill from there.
riffraff 2 hours ago [-]
Last week on a comedy show (the daily show) they made a joke about bill gates "micro and soft" which was old in the 90s already, so I can confirm this is the case.
wincy 44 minutes ago [-]
Orgs have had sensitive skin like this for a long time. Gamespy was a service for launching and playing multiplayer games with lobbies before Steam, and if you “accidentally” typed “GaySpy” (it was the early 2000s) it would autocorrect to “GameSpy” by the time it appeared in your messages.
henriquecm8 1 hours ago [-]
In Brazil people used to say "Ruindows", which is a play with the portuguese word for bad.
fluoridation 3 hours ago [-]
Don't forget Windoze.
dariosalvi78 10 minutes ago [-]
in Italy it was WinZozz (zozzo = dirty)
ddtaylor 2 hours ago [-]
Don't forget Winblows
lelanthran 2 hours ago [-]
Another oldie
"If you play the Win98 CD backwards, it summons Satan. It's worse when you play it forwards - it installs Windows"
Ah, good times... :-)
jackdoe 2 hours ago [-]
I had to reinstall win98 so many times I still remember the pirate key k4hvdq9tj96crx9c9g68rq2d3 by heart
good times :)
ValentineC 2 hours ago [-]
I guess I was more of the FCKGW generation. :)
deltoidmaximus 2 hours ago [-]
IIRC with Windows 98 you could just use any product key you had on as many machines as you wanted since there was no activation or real phoning home capabilities. So most likely your whole friend group would be using the same serial that was copied off your uncle's old gateway.
Tade0 2 hours ago [-]
Ah, FuCK Gates, William.
I think there were at least three other commonly used codes, but this one was by far the most popular.
mghackerlady 16 minutes ago [-]
I'm pretty sure 000-0000000 worked (at least on windows 95)
riddley 54 minutes ago [-]
Outbreak Express!
Seb-C 1 hours ago [-]
In french we have Windaube (pronunced Windob).
Daube is a slang word for something of low quality.
infinityplus1 2 hours ago [-]
Internet exploder
Maken 2 hours ago [-]
Internet Exploiter
pjmlp 2 hours ago [-]
I used to have a M$ email signature 30 years ago, and pay, nowaydays I mostly use Windows on my laptop, because I am not willing to pay Apple prices even though I can afford them, and even last year I was dealing with GNU/Linux installation issues on a Gigabyte BRIX.
intothemild 45 minutes ago [-]
Microscope Winblows
mythz 22 minutes ago [-]
Yeah ban the use of a catchy catch-phrase as you continue to shove AI down your user-base - that'll work. Streisand would be proud.
quadruple 2 hours ago [-]
What community is there to house around Microsoft Copilot?
Seriously, why does Microsoft Copilot need a Discord Server?
What do I talk about when I join the Microsoft Copilot server?
What are we doing here?
TheAceOfHearts 2 hours ago [-]
I'd imagine that there's some discussion about how to make the most out of the tool as well as discussion of experiments and capabilities. I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore because of the multiple rebrands, but having a place where you can discuss exploring plugins and other adjacent features seems useful.
Not quite the same, but recently I was recently looking around for communities centered around Claude Code for discussion about people's workflows as well as discussion about what plugins people are using and if they notice it making a significant difference.
Since the technology is still evolving, having an active community can help you discover new patterns and explore the space more effectively.
avhception 2 hours ago [-]
> [...] I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore [...]
Watching from the sidelines (not a Microsoft user), I've completely lost track. Between this, the Azure 365 cloud whatever stuff, I have no idea what many of the products even exactly are any more.
pixl97 1 hours ago [-]
Simply put Microsoft is the worst company at naming stuff. Even when they come up with a good name for something, they'll name 3 other totally different products the same thing to maximize confusion.
poly2it 51 minutes ago [-]
Seriously? Does anybody know what Copilot is? I don't think I have ever seem a "Copilot user", so I don't know what it looks like. Is it the little macro key on new laptop keyboards? The chatbot you get in Bing? A technical philosophy? Or is it in essence just copilot.com, the mediocre chat interface which you used to get free GPT-4 three years ago?
mghackerlady 13 minutes ago [-]
The copilot button isn't even a "button" in a traditional sense, it just maps to win+shift+f23
AlienRobot 5 minutes ago [-]
There is a chance that it's actually a Microsoft Office discord that was rebranded to Microsoft Copilot.
sunaookami 1 hours ago [-]
The same as every other Discord server: Giving a few people the feeling of power over dozens of channels with memes and unsearchable low-quality "discussions".
g947o 33 minutes ago [-]
I have been in similar groups, and trust me, there are a lot of very enthusiastic users sharing their tools, success stories etc.
I stopped paying attention after a while as they get repetitive.
airstrike 1 hours ago [-]
How do you do, fellow kids?
snowram 2 hours ago [-]
It reminds me of the US army and their fabulous idea to open a Twitch channel. Went as well as you expect.
Cthulhu_ 24 minutes ago [-]
Sometimes they have good ideas, America's Army was pretty popular for a while for example.
wiseowise 1 hours ago [-]
It’s just another checkbox in someone’s performance review, no need to think too hard about it.
xmcqdpt2 2 hours ago [-]
Maybe all the users are OpenClaw instances?
2 hours ago [-]
ppap3 3 hours ago [-]
I don't take this lightly.
These are the folks who are doing what they can to be part of the government.
They simply cannot take criticism and this seems to be a pattern moving forward.
2 hours ago [-]
petepete 2 hours ago [-]
Why is Microsoft using Discord and not Teams?
dessimus 1 hours ago [-]
So non-employees join and provide free support to other users without having to pay them.
Maken 2 hours ago [-]
Why would anyone use Teams?
DrBazza 1 hours ago [-]
Because it comes 'free' with an Office365 subscription. Embrace (<<you are here), extend, extinguish.
It's usually 'management'. The same management that won't pay for developer tools (including Slack) because 'why do you need that when you can do 95% of your work in VSCode?' It's also usually the same sort of management that can do 95% of their documents in... VSCode and markdown. Or LibreOffice.
kibwen 49 minutes ago [-]
Microsoft products are only free if your time has no value.
jimnotgym 36 minutes ago [-]
Having been in the position, on a corporate Active Directory network it very much easier to roll out Teams than anything else. It works fine at the kind of internal video calls that companies spend their days on.
Hamuko 2 hours ago [-]
Dogfooding only works when the dog food is edible.
isodev 37 minutes ago [-]
This just means I'm going to say microslop in random places - documents, slides, emails and Teams chats. "Copilot 365" is welcome to give me a red squigly all it wants.
lpcvoid 3 hours ago [-]
Microslop doing Microslop things
ppap3 3 hours ago [-]
Probably the AI blocked it
collabs 3 hours ago [-]
> Probably the AI blocked it
Maybe this is the real reason why companies want to use AI so badly.
They save money on salary but also they get to point at something they won't tattle against the executives during a plea bargain?
throwaway85825 9 minutes ago [-]
AI valuation is based on vibes not fundamentals. If the vibes are bad it could tank valuations. That's why theyre so sensitive.
BLKNSLVR 47 minutes ago [-]
I think we've found the 2026 word of the year already!
Let's get it out there and make this happen!
hwers 3 hours ago [-]
The default of making a public discord for your project/company always seemed like a bad idea anyway. It’ll always devolve into some drama or distracting overhead to moderate it
jimnotgym 42 minutes ago [-]
This is why 2026 will be The Year of the Linux Desktop
mghackerlady 13 minutes ago [-]
Lets go further, year of the Hurd desktop!
patrulek 1 hours ago [-]
I would be angry too. Its definitely not that micro.
raxxorraxor 4 hours ago [-]
Was hitting too close to home it seems...
But to be fair, corporate discords have to be like that. Why not create your own channel with your colleagues instead? This discussion would be "private" and corporate can just ignore it.
blitzar 3 hours ago [-]
> create your own channel with your colleagues instead
Dont even think about it ... it will be private till it isnt then, it will be the reason you are fired. Its corpo world - shut your mouth and dont put anything on a permanent record you dont have to.
oytis 3 hours ago [-]
Like, why have a public discussion if we can have a private one? Public discussions are important, especially as AI is largely a political project
p-t 2 hours ago [-]
i'd argue a discord is never really "public", since there's still a barrier to entering and it's easy to get banned
criddell 1 hours ago [-]
If I were to bet on what would get a Microsoft Discord server shut down, I would have put money on discussions of the ties between Microsoft executives and Epstein. They should be happy if the worst thing that's happening is a mildly deragatory nickname.
bilekas 1 hours ago [-]
So this is the company pushing to be an integral part of everyone's lives, forcing it down everyone's throat without consent.
And they're already moderation a light hearted joke about their low quality products.
Doesn't really bode well for the future product Vision.
blell 4 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.
Gualdrapo 3 hours ago [-]
Is "Microslop" really insulting, though?
TOMDM 3 hours ago [-]
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?
cluckindan 2 hours ago [-]
insult (verb): to say or do something to someone that is rude or offensive
Corporate personhood at its finest.
wraptile 1 hours ago [-]
People do work at Microsoft though and they're probably aren't very happy when their work is called slop. You could even say they are feeling insulted or offended.
crote 13 minutes ago [-]
See, that requires the code to be written by an actual human being, who has agency and a sense of pride and ownership about their work.
Maybe there are still some teams deep inside the bowels of Microsoft that management has forgotten about that still operate like that, but judging by the way the user-facing parts of its products have developed, the mass firings, and the pushing of AI-driven development by upper management, it seems very clear to me that there's very little risk of insulting anything anyone actually cares about.
schiffern 1 hours ago [-]
Hey now, what's wrong with 'slop?' A farmer loves slop. It's dirt cheap, and the pigs don't seem to mind...
latexr 27 minutes ago [-]
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.
7952 2 hours ago [-]
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.
angstrom 3 hours ago [-]
Less insulting than Macroslop
Manfred 3 hours ago [-]
Why wouldn’t it be? It’s a mean derivation of their company name.
seanclayton 3 hours ago [-]
It's as insulting as M$ is
JasonADrury 1 hours ago [-]
Has there ever been a single good piece of writing that uses "M$" or the likes?
"M$" may not be insulting in itself, but it's certainly typically associated with insultingly poor writing.
cinntaile 3 hours ago [-]
How is M$ insulting? It just looks like a leetspeak version of MS.
matsemann 2 hours ago [-]
And other insults are just words as well. It's the intention, history, connotation etc. behind words that give them meaning. M$ is meant as an insult, hence it's insulting. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/M$
cinntaile 18 minutes ago [-]
As I said, I was not aware of the insult.
riffraff 2 hours ago [-]
It is supposed to indicate Microsoft cares only about money, which to me too, seems in the same league as microslop, i.e. mildly insulting but really not rude enough to be worth censoring.
2 hours ago [-]
4gotunameagain 3 hours ago [-]
It would be mean if they weren't actually vibecoding copilot & md into notepad, introducing an RCE vulnerability.
In notepad.
TOMDM 3 hours ago [-]
Why get yourself twisted like this?
They can do a bad thing, and then you can make fun of it with an insult.
Own it, the insult is warranted, why hide and pretend it's not an insult.
If Microsoft is consistently shipping slop, then they deserve insults over it; not every "bad" thing is always unwarranted. Locking someone in a box is "bad", prison is a necessary thing that benefits society. Insults are "bad" and sometimes warranted.
FpUser 2 hours ago [-]
They did not rewrite Notepad in Rust? Seems to be an easy target
fireflash38 3 hours ago [-]
Maybe they should stop insulting their users with the slop they put out and charge for then.
hagbard_c 2 hours ago [-]
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?
5o1ecist 3 hours ago [-]
Truth hurts the immature, which is also why censorship is rampant.
blell 3 hours ago [-]
I would say that “microslop” is akin to the old term “micro$oft”, which was a good sign of immaturity of whoever used it.
windowliker 3 hours ago [-]
It's insulting to good, honest slop.
JasonADrury 2 hours ago [-]
I think the most important question here is this: Are users who post the string "microslop" generally desirable participants that will contribute in a productive manner?
I suspect not.
crote 9 minutes ago [-]
An even more important question is: why does Microsoft care so much about a handful of people using that term that they are willing to risk getting Streisanded over it?
Nobody cares about banning the few idiots who do nothing but spam "MICROSLOP SUCKS MICROSLOP SUCKS". But banning the entire term "microslop", just in case someone might use it? Well, what kind of response were they expecting?
Steve16384 1 hours ago [-]
It depends what the purpose of the Discord channel is. Is it for open and frank discussion, or for MS drones to discuss Copilot development. It's a cliche, but banning certain words smacks of 1984-style censorship.
JasonADrury 1 hours ago [-]
> Is it for open and frank discussion
So... 4chan? Why would you possibly want that in this context?
Although, you're posting on HN so it's probably fair to assume that "open and frank discussion" isn't a very high priority for you.
2OEH8eoCRo0 3 hours ago [-]
> someone
It's Microsoft's official Copilot Discord. Microsoft banned the word
jjgreen 4 hours ago [-]
Micro$lop then.
cedws 3 hours ago [-]
Macroslop
7bit 3 hours ago [-]
After that. Microshlong
rhajsOqi 21 minutes ago [-]
What will Elon's "Macrohard" company be called? "Macroheil"?
tpoacher 2 hours ago [-]
Microslop.
Has a nice ring to it.
Thank you Streisand effect!
booleandilemma 13 minutes ago [-]
Is Micro$lop also banned?
elcapitan 2 hours ago [-]
Microstreisand?
AvAn12 37 minutes ago [-]
Sloppy.
boringg 31 minutes ago [-]
Is Micro$$lop banned?
3 hours ago [-]
stephc_int13 1 hours ago [-]
They are back in their villain arc. For a while now.
mpalmer 56 minutes ago [-]
Our vocabulary is so stunted. Has no one else noticed that we increasingly talk about the world like it's fiction playing out in front of us?
kibwen 47 minutes ago [-]
It's not a vocab problem. It's inherent to the human brain, which appears to be fundamentally designed to prefer to view the world in terms of stories, with heroes, villains, and a narrative arc.
jfyi 35 minutes ago [-]
Is it though? Or are we simply in an environment that is heavily skewed toward "Great Person" theory narratives?
RGamma 44 minutes ago [-]
Nobody can gauge the world for what it really is. It has always been like that. Proper empiricism is expensive and often enough impossible.
RGamma 60 minutes ago [-]
Villain? More like geriatric.
FartyMcFarter 1 hours ago [-]
Windows 11 is definitely failing in weird ways for me, I don't know if it's due to slop. The latest example is that I can't launch Notepad via the start menu... I can launch other apps though.
snarfy 16 minutes ago [-]
Enshitification doesn't roll off the tongue quite the same way. You have 10,000 systems all each interacting at a 90% success rate when it needs to be 99.999%.
They fired all the SDETs 11 years ago. It's catching up with them.
tartoran 2 hours ago [-]
I propose we refer to them as Microslop from now on.
shafyy 6 minutes ago [-]
I am currently re-watching the HBO comedy show Silicon Valley, and oh man, is it hitting even harder this time than when it was originally released.
rrgok 2 hours ago [-]
365Slop all day every day all around
1 hours ago [-]
froh42 1 hours ago [-]
I'm sad that "Klopilot" only works in German.
"Hello, copilot, do you create slop? -> Skibidi slop slop slop aiiiiiii"
lovegrenoble 2 hours ago [-]
Micro$oft
_imnothere 3 hours ago [-]
Ok, Microslop
wormpilled 3 hours ago [-]
IDK what's funnier/more pathetic, them doing this or an entire article getting written about it.
MicroslopSlop
JasonADrury 2 hours ago [-]
> them doing this
Wouldn't any community that wants to encourage good quality conversations immediately ban everyone posting stupid slashdot-esque jokes like this?
crote 4 minutes ago [-]
You can't build a community if you ban everything except soulless corporate dronespeak. Nobody would ever be interested in joining it without getting paid for it. That's a business meeting, not a community.
Joel_Mckay 2 hours ago [-]
...the AI agent sock-puppets pushing false positive narratives about MicroslopSlopSlop, and trolling anyone that disagrees =3
remember when they sued a HS student Mike Rowe for his microrowesoft website?
JasonADrury 2 hours ago [-]
Most discord users are children, more news at 11
metaPushkin 2 hours ago [-]
[flagged]
calgoo 2 hours ago [-]
Hateful speech, really? If we called it Micro$hit maybe.... but if they are going to be buthurt because a bunch of gamers and sysadmins are annoyed at the horrific direction the company is taking, then they deserve it.
jinxmeta 4 hours ago [-]
idiots
3 hours ago [-]
lloydatkinson 3 hours ago [-]
Discord/Reddit moderators living up to their obnoxious stereotype as usual.
marcyb5st 2 hours ago [-]
I don't know for certain, but moderators (on a company Discord) are likely random people in a 3rd world country that are payed peanuts and that is their only income. If higher ups tell them "I don't want to see the Microslop word anywhere" they just do it.
You should be angry at the higher ups that instead of saying: "maybe they are right and we can do better" they decided to hide the problem through censorship. Which, btw, always has the opposite effect of putting what you are trying to hide in the spotlight.
JasonADrury 2 hours ago [-]
Spamming "microslop" is obnoxious, filtering out childish behaviour is not obnoxious.
But if you don't want childish behaviour, Discord is an ... interesting choice.
lunias 2 hours ago [-]
Tells you a lot about where their focus is at as a company.
Zigurd 55 minutes ago [-]
It's kind of interesting that Microsoft is deemphasizing if not exiting making products for individuals to decide to buy. Contrast that with Google, who have to actively cultivate individual customers in order to have a large and reliable audience for ad based monetization of search, maps, and other free at the point of use products.
There are good and understandable reasons to not want to be in the games business. Game studios are frequently a hot bed of sexual predation and just horrifyingly bad management in general. But it's a business with a large customer base that wouldn't be customers otherwise.
Microsoft has spent tens of billions of dollars acquiring game studios and their IP. They're going to have to make a decision to cultivate growth in that business or sell it for whatever they can get for it. Neither of those choices will be easy to execute well.
nitinreddy88 2 hours ago [-]
Wow. This is no longer HN community. This became bunch of immature reddit/comment section.
Do you work for Microsoft or something? Please do do not give them ideas.
Very few things trigger me more than this doublespeak.
Only on premium subscriptions, for free users you need your neighbour's stool sample.
So why not to create a M365 account? International dispatch to the US :D
a micro shit (tm)
if you want to make sure people read a lot of instructions you can chain this so that you need to hover over the button multiple times, revealing the instructions a bit at a time
Best we can hope for is Microsoft dogfoods the feature first.
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
On a similar, nostalgic note, I recall boot screens for "Sinnlos 98" floating around, back when modifying the bootup logo was a thing.
Things only went downhill from there.
"If you play the Win98 CD backwards, it summons Satan. It's worse when you play it forwards - it installs Windows"
Ah, good times... :-)
good times :)
I think there were at least three other commonly used codes, but this one was by far the most popular.
Daube is a slang word for something of low quality.
Not quite the same, but recently I was recently looking around for communities centered around Claude Code for discussion about people's workflows as well as discussion about what plugins people are using and if they notice it making a significant difference.
Since the technology is still evolving, having an active community can help you discover new patterns and explore the space more effectively.
Watching from the sidelines (not a Microsoft user), I've completely lost track. Between this, the Azure 365 cloud whatever stuff, I have no idea what many of the products even exactly are any more.
I stopped paying attention after a while as they get repetitive.
It's usually 'management'. The same management that won't pay for developer tools (including Slack) because 'why do you need that when you can do 95% of your work in VSCode?' It's also usually the same sort of management that can do 95% of their documents in... VSCode and markdown. Or LibreOffice.
Maybe this is the real reason why companies want to use AI so badly.
They save money on salary but also they get to point at something they won't tattle against the executives during a plea bargain?
Let's get it out there and make this happen!
But to be fair, corporate discords have to be like that. Why not create your own channel with your colleagues instead? This discussion would be "private" and corporate can just ignore it.
Dont even think about it ... it will be private till it isnt then, it will be the reason you are fired. Its corpo world - shut your mouth and dont put anything on a permanent record you dont have to.
And they're already moderation a light hearted joke about their low quality products.
Doesn't really bode well for the future product Vision.
Corporate personhood at its finest.
Maybe there are still some teams deep inside the bowels of Microsoft that management has forgotten about that still operate like that, but judging by the way the user-facing parts of its products have developed, the mass firings, and the pushing of AI-driven development by upper management, it seems very clear to me that there's very little risk of insulting anything anyone actually cares about.
"M$" may not be insulting in itself, but it's certainly typically associated with insultingly poor writing.
In notepad.
They can do a bad thing, and then you can make fun of it with an insult.
Own it, the insult is warranted, why hide and pretend it's not an insult.
If Microsoft is consistently shipping slop, then they deserve insults over it; not every "bad" thing is always unwarranted. Locking someone in a box is "bad", prison is a necessary thing that benefits society. Insults are "bad" and sometimes warranted.
I suspect not.
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?
So... 4chan? Why would you possibly want that in this context?
Although, you're posting on HN so it's probably fair to assume that "open and frank discussion" isn't a very high priority for you.
It's Microsoft's official Copilot Discord. Microsoft banned the word
Has a nice ring to it.
Thank you Streisand effect!
They fired all the SDETs 11 years ago. It's catching up with them.
"Hello, copilot, do you create slop? -> Skibidi slop slop slop aiiiiiii"
MicroslopSlop
Wouldn't any community that wants to encourage good quality conversations immediately ban everyone posting stupid slashdot-esque jokes like this?
"Bad Bot Problem" (Computerphile)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjQNDCYL5Rg
microslop.com
You should be angry at the higher ups that instead of saying: "maybe they are right and we can do better" they decided to hide the problem through censorship. Which, btw, always has the opposite effect of putting what you are trying to hide in the spotlight.
But if you don't want childish behaviour, Discord is an ... interesting choice.
There are good and understandable reasons to not want to be in the games business. Game studios are frequently a hot bed of sexual predation and just horrifyingly bad management in general. But it's a business with a large customer base that wouldn't be customers otherwise.
Microsoft has spent tens of billions of dollars acquiring game studios and their IP. They're going to have to make a decision to cultivate growth in that business or sell it for whatever they can get for it. Neither of those choices will be easy to execute well.
>Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.