In Spain there was a time when it was Hasechof and Microchof.

You keep focusing on “a person”. I don’t walk into Grease Monkey or Artic Circle and start insulting. I use Arsenic Circle off the premises.

Microslop is behaving in a way that hurts customers. I'd say it's extremely anticonsummer. They are simply being called "microslop". It's like saying "Nintendon't" when you refer to their famous anticonsummer practices. People are not going to microslop discord to call them genocide enablers (which they are) or other stuff. Just microslop because, lately, they only produce slop (proof: windows 11, to name a single one among the lot).

Heh. I guess I’m more used to Barbara and never really listened to Barbra’s music.

Happens. I always saw Barbra (and thought it was a weird name).

I’m saying that if you insult a company on their property then don’t bitch if they kick you out. Just because you are not insulting a specific person doesn’t mean that they have to allow you to behave badly.

The fact is people are not bitching about being kicked out, but laughing about how dumb they are painting themselves over a silly thing that could have died really soon if they just let it be.

I remember when there was a webpage named "mocosoft" and microslop sued (and won) because the name sounded too similar in Spain.
After that, I went with mocosoft for a good while. Sad there weren't social media back then. It could have become a very viral thing.

I'm Germany, we called it Windoof

That's a bit weird. They didn't get this worked up about being called "Micro$oft" or something. This is probably hitting the nerve in a completely different way!

They would have run it into the ground with mismanagement and a new chat application would become the popular choice within a year, while Microslop's new acquisition fades into obscurity, eventually to be depreciated and shut down my Microslop themselves.

As has happened multiple times already in history.

Which companies always are.

Look into how companies are actually managed. It's almost always an absolute dictatorship under the complete control of the owner and/or CEO, who gets the last word on everything and can fire anyone at will. Sometimes you'll have a board of directors or something acting as a check on the CEO's power and able to replace them if necessary ... but even then, that pretty much never actually happens. Their power is pretty much never actually checked.

Which is why I think "workplace democracy" should be the phrase leftists rally behind. The right has put a lot of work into poisoning and slandering the terms 'socialism' and 'communism', but 'workplace democracy' hasn't been attacked like that. And it sounds very good to workers. If you get to vote on what your country does, why shouldn't you get to vote on what your company does? After all, your company actually has a lot more effect on you and power over you in your day-to-day life. Why should some out-of-touch rich guy (probably a pedophile) get absolute control over the whole thing based on his fucked-up whims and vibes? Instead, we should have workplace democracy, where all employees get a say in how the company is run. (And then, without propagandized workers even realizing that they've done so, they've taken control of the means of production and enacted a form of socialism.)

the First Amendment (in the USA) is for protection from the government, not a private business

Increasingly becoming a distinction without a difference, as corporate and government interests become more and more intertwined.

(Suppose that the government politely asks Microsoft to ban all mention of "genocide" on Microsoft platforms, while making it very clear that it's completely optional, the government just asking for a favor, and it's not at all required, no penalty for failing to do so. Probably not even an official request. Just, say, the President rambling on social media about how it would be very "great again" if Microsoft did that. And Microsoft eagerly and voluntarily bans mention of "genocide". Later, the government allows Microsoft to make a big merger without worrying about anti-trust laws, and also gives them a significant tax break. Were first amendment rights violated?)

I've said this before that if they made it optional and gave us the choice of using it as part of the operating system, then people might use it and might find reasons to like it. But shoving it down our throats is offensive and rapey. I'm not interested in being raped by microslop.

In fact, I am violently opposed to it. If one of the people that are shoving nopilot down our throats was in front of me, I would attack that person, at least verbally, but also possibly physically depending on their response.

It’s normal to just meet people where they are at on all the various platforms. As long as you can pipe everything back to customer data platform increasing scale through multiple social platforms has almost no downside and pretty minimal cost.

If you showed up at Microsoft HQ and started throwing out insults, why would that be acceptable?

Why wouldn't it be?

Only before microslop would have found yet more ways like charging for additional characters past a 250 word limit and connecting to a chat for more than an hour :'). I seriously miss groups/social. When microslop/xbox actually had that false sense of caring for their communities

Microsoft locked all the channels in that discord within the last few hours.

Before that, every channel was Microslop nonstop. Apparently even giving them feedback (in the feedback channel) about the product is no longer allowed. Microsoft cannot handle the fact they dish out slop.

What you describe is like how the Mafia leaders claim that they never gave an order to commit a crime. Al Capone was very difficult to pin down.

Since Microsoft could decline the government's "request", then I suspect that technically First Amendment rights were not violated. It's how companies have been getting away for essentially spying for the government.

*deprecated

Microsoft has over 200k employees, and the people (person?) managing the discord are probably at the bottom of the totem pole. I doubt they put more than 5 seconds of thought into this.

I get the Mousewitz part but what’s the reference to Dachau about? Duchau read like Duckau as in Donald Duck?

I still use windows 10.

They're proud capitalists, so it never bothered them. They aren't proud of their slopware though

Only about 4-5% of the world lives in the U.S., I am not one of them. Stop acting like a shill.

Whatever floats your boat.

Thank you for the correction!

They do, but have you ever seen a party that everyone knows about but no one shows up to? That's Microsoft's non-paid chat service.

And if they keep it up, Macroslop

Dachau was one if the first concentration camps in Germany.

4.20%. I was giving an example. I'm not jumping on the hate train to try to placate fanatics who obviously think that anything goes when they don't like something. I don't like or trust Microsoft (and have bad-mouthed them many times) but I will not go to their "properties" to insult them and I certainly don't expect them to be fine with it. Call me a shrill if you want to but I get the impression that you just want to be an asshole and want others to be as well.

Go to microsoft dot com. Click their chat help bot. Ask "What is microslop?" get told, sorry, I cannot help you with that and turns itself off.

I just did that..and it said....''it would seem you are referring to Microsoft'' So all of your hard work was not in vain. It is now self aware

You son of a bitch I'm in!! Where do I sign up?

Remember how Americans would pronounce the ch. They already basically say Dackau, so Duckau isn't a far stretch.

I said shill, not shrill. None of us are going to the company in person. The ceo wants people to stop calling ai slop. This is why people are calling it Microslop. Also, people are boycotting Microsoft, because they are helping with the Palestinian genocide. I try to limit all my purchases from Microsoft if possible. The company is evil, the founder was on the Epstein list, and is also evil.

I could have sworn I used shill. I don't know if it's my fingers betraying me or if it's autocorrect.

I'm using going to Microsoft HQ as an analogy. Going to their forums or groups or Discord server, etc., and causing grief should be treated like griefers anywhere. I'm not saying to not use Microslop at all, just that if you are causing grief somewhere it's understandable if you get kicked out.

Don't get me wrong. I believe that the ones at Microsoft responsible need to have an Ed Gruberman experience. I'm just going to behave myself while on their property.

I hate this timeline, but I do enjoy the small moments of absurdity when I can.

I am very aware, I was asking about the pronunciation/reference.

Discord is not their property. It is just a social network they use. And what you call griefing is what most people call protesting. If CEO just never made a big deal about AI being slop, there would be less hate. But since we know it hurts his feelings, it is the Barbra Streisand effect.

I am not in any of their servers, but I am boycotting their services. There is no point in paying for games from them, if the money goes to Palestinian genocide.

It might be that there is pun at all about them calling it Dachau and that was the point. Oh we can’t use this cheeky nickname anymore? Fine, we’ll just refer to it as Dachau. Ban that.

Don't they have a chat product?

Many. And Discord is among them.

Seems like I missremembered something.

And it's MICROSCUM, not microslop!

Discord server, not Discord itself.

Yes, it's as you stated, a reference to donald duck. A very loose reference.

Also, I've tried to find any reliable sources for this story at previous occasions, and it seems like it's fully made up. The working conditions have reportedly been abyssmal which is likely the origin of the story, but that specific story is not real.

"oh you want us to stop saying Microslop? how about we remind you about this in 3 days instead :)"

Then we're all in agreement, right?

This is the true roflcopter in my eyes.

A company that can't even stand trolling!😂

All those alternatives aren't insulting enough

BlowPilot

This is embarrassing... I'll keep calling them Microslop and Microflop more