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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What should you do if you are unhappy with the results of this survey?
- I understand you are disappointed. This is how democratic decisions work, and is the reality of the situation.
- My opinion here is for you to take a moment to look inward and decide for yourself how you want to proceed.
- If the name of this community bothers you, my recommendation is to do the only thing you can do as a person: make a choice and opt out.
- There are other communities you can join and collaborate in. You can always spin up a new community in the Fediverse, on any instance out there, and create new content to attract users.
- However, if you are okay with accepting that the name of this community will not change, stay with us. We’d love to have you here.
Final notes to remember:
- We are all gamers. We are all united by our varying levels of PC enthusiasm. Let’s stay united in our hobbies, rather than allowing ourselves to become divided. Seems like these days there is so much division all across the world, all across social media, in our news, etc.
- For all the evils out there in the world, this is a safe place for us.
- Every person on this planet out there has a different opinion. Remember to be kind to others, even when no one is watching you.
This is how democratic decisions work
the only thing you can do as a person: make a choice and opt out
This is wrong
A democratic decision doesn’t make it just or moral. You always have a right to protest.
PC Monetary Regret
Okay, jokes aside. I hope everyone keep their cool about this.
I sincerely hope they don’t.
This thread already allowed me to identify a handful of people who I made a note not to piss on if I ever find them on fire in an otherwise dark alley, and the more of those we identify early and possibly ban for being screeching morons the better.
Especially the “this made me realise this is not a community I want to be part of” crowd, who were so upset with the name they decided to
- Join this community whose presentation they knew upfront wasn’t up to their stellar ethical standards.
- Demand it be changed to suit them.
- Threw a shitfit when they didn’t get what they want.
And to those people I say: that language is very telling. You were never a member of this community, if you were the name would not have deterred you one bit, if anything it would have been the reason you found this place. No, you were making an attempt at subverting this community and I am glad you failed.
Please do not use the r-slur here.
- is this an official moderator note or a personal request? I have pre-emptively complied but I’d like to know nonetheless.
- seems rather tone deaf to police the word “retard” after we literally just finished a poll about using an edgy joke as the community name, especially given it’s literally used in the same video the name PCMR originates from.
- every insult people use has roots in some sort of denigratory language: Idiot, moron, imbecile, mongoloid, and stupid were all medical terms at some point much like retard was. Crucially, they all mean the same thing: a person of lesser intelligence. Are they all slurs or is only “retard” special?
- is the issue that I am specifically calling a group of people “retards”? Would calling an action “retarded” be more suitable?
