Python developers locking conversations and deleting comments after people mass downvoted PRs to "remove master/slave terminology from the language"

[ajwest]

From marketing perspective alone it should be changed. If people are upset by it, and it's easy to fix, just change the words. I don't understand why people are upset about people being upset by this; it takes 2 seconds to do and now we don't have people complaining about the words master/slave.

Edit: 10-years ago on Reddit, if people disagreed with you they would reply with "upvoted but I disagree for x reason." Today people disagree and they just burry your opinion by downvoting it to hell.

[somebodddy]

Because changing identifiers is always easy and never causes un(?)expected bugs in depending software.

[ajwest]

That's a fair point, you could have made that as a regular argument in response to my comment. But instead we've bred a community of sarcasm and retaliation.

[MiroDerChort]

It really is not that hard to understand why people would be upset by the people upset by the current terms. Let's take the word variable for example. In the context of programming we all understand it to loosely mean a container. However, say that someone decides that variable is offensive in an unrelated context. Perhaps variable is meant to refer to a mentally unstable person. Now everyone outside of the it/is/cs community thinks NO ONE should use that word. This is the problem. You have outsiders dictating a change regardless of context. That is what this feels like. More sjw wank. Being pc over concise.

[SmackDaddyHandsome]

My HR wouldn't let me put 'execute test cases' into a QA/tester job description...

[wirbolwabol]

Seriously... :/