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Originally Posted by Moejoe
No, your reaction (as in so many other threads) accounts for the derailment. Those already part of the community know the word and know its meaning. Those new to the community would have learned the word (and its history) just as with every other word that is new like - ePub, DRM, eink etc.
What you and your fellow cohorts did was over-react to a bit of fun with language that some of us were using and enjoying. You turned what was a light-hearted and playful adoption of a beautiful sounding word into some kind of personal insult to you.
If you'd just ignored the word (as so many did) then you would have found no resistance, the word might have even died a natural death. But now you and yours have polarised the community, drawn a line in the sand and dared others to cross that line.
There's nothing I like more than a lost cause or a line in the sand 
EDIT: This was meant for JSWolf not Tompe |
Funny, you blame others for overreacting, and in the same post talking about taking a stand for lost cause over the line in the sand. And I assume keep pushing for <any word that others don't understand>.*
Might it just be possible, that it is you and the people pushing this word that cause disruption?
Plus look at the poll,
those part of the community as you put it don't like this word in vast majority.
* That is the definition of trolling if you consiously continue doing it.
In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[2]