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Results of the PCMR Name Change Survey (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CatZoomies@lemmy.world to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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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

@Hurts@lemmy.world @_MoveSwiftly@lemmy.world @Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world @IowaMan@lemmy.world @BobaFett26@lemmy.world @The_Vampire@lemmy.world @Fudgeknuckles98@lemmy.world @CatZoomies@lemmy.world @Xeon@lemmy.ml @geosoco@kbin.social

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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[-] DrownedAxolotl@lemmy.ml 8 points 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.

[-] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 4 points 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

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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

[-] DrownedAxolotl@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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).

[-] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Lt_Cdr_Data@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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?

[-] Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

The fact this poll was necessary makes me really sad

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Respect the democracy but what a ridiculous topic.

[-] smokedclover@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

PC Monetary Regret

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

The first PC I purchased with my own money:

  • CPU: AMD Duron 1600, tray, $45
    • Cache unlock with silver paint, $10
    • OC to 2.3GHz
    • Zalman 7000, $40
  • Motherboard: ECS N2U400, NForce2, $56
    • Volt mod via trim pot (no volt control in BIOS), $5
  • Memory: second hand mix, $50
  • HDD: Maxtor 40GB, second hand, $??
  • Case: beige box from my last hand-me-down PC, $0
  • PSU: Fortron (FSP), second hand, $20
  • GPU: Radeon 9550, $60
    • BIOS mod to 9600
  • RGB: 🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️

Half-Life 2, Doom 3 go brrr, no regrets

Total: $320 or $530 in today's money

[-] Rolder@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t regret a single dollar thank you very much

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

It's OK, you can buy all your Steam games via Brazilian grey market resellers and then complain that nobody brings games to PC any more.

[-] Mudface@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, I think this argument will never die.

The sensitive radicals will keep demanding it, until they get what they want. They are tireless

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Good for you, gamers. We programmers have lost the master branch forever.

[-] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Good riddance. Main branch master race. And I'm a vim user, so I usually love archaic bullshit

[-] Dettweiler42@lemmyonline.com 3 points 1 year ago

For all the people that don't understand where there name of the community came from, here is the video that started it all: https://youtu.be/P0dXtOVi2yo?si=Vlxetg3tmkjWGE70

[-] AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

Damn I missed it. Glad most of us (more precisely 71.9% of us) have good taste.

Long live PCMR

[-] regalia@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We need something more humble, like PC god mode

[-] Transcendant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

In that case, my proposal is IDDQD (showing my damn age with this one)

[-] GoldRanger@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

PC spaghetti monster in the sky race

[-] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I love democracy

[-] ackzsel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Personal Computer Main Race!

[-] maniel@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

TF is that browser?!

[-] Lemmyboi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox with a theme applied

[-] CarbonConscious@lemdro.id -1 points 1 year ago

Well, this is kinda gross. Missed the poll, but pretty disappointed with the results. The big swell of tongue-in-cheek nazi jokes to go along with it is really telling and discomforting.

Anyways, good luck with the crowd you're about to attract, and see ya on the other side of an instance block (or not, rather).

[-] saltedFish@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago

Touch grass, nerd

[-] ShadowRam@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

PC MASTER RACE ANTHEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrkRliHHjFk

[-] Neato@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, go ahead and keep the nazi verbiage. That's helping the image.

I don't think most people get that it was originally denigration of the elitist attitudes some PC players had and Yahtzee was making fun of them. And yet they use his imagery still. Y'all are bafflingly obtuse...or perhaps like the comparison? Can't tell which is worse.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

The only people who should feel offended are actual Nazis.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you clearly don't get satire

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

You bias the vote by excluding the majority of users. A lot of Lemmy users are never going to use Google for some stupid survey, myself included

this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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