PC Master Race

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PCMR Community Name - Our Response and the Survey

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Results of the PCMR Name Change Survey (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

While convention is not about making sense (does Java class names make any sense?), master makes more sense in this case because main implies that there are secondary that's not related to it. Which really shouldn't happen in any sane repo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbf, 'master' can imply the same thing

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Master implies hierarchy, all the other branches are derivatives of it. Main/secondary doesn't have that.

You can sort of compare it to the master recording in audio, or a master key that can open several locks.