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pariahHN | 5 years ago

This is really what does it for me. Name, eh, ok. Deliberately choosing other names to retain the 'joke', that's pushing it a bit but not a real deal breaker personally.

But straight up using homophobic slurs because of an API change? Apparently random racial slurs in comments? Why? Someone deliberately choose those specific words, they don't bring any benefit to the program, and they really are not something I would want to be associated with as a contributor.

I think the words people choose to convey information say a lot about what is floating near the top of their mind. Who seriously comes up with 'sluts' as their first choice to name an array of women?

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p_l|5 years ago

Same here - I was ready to defend them on the naming theme, just like one of the other commenters here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24022888 ) for many reasons, including the part where I am all for some inclusive profanity to liven the life a bit.

Then I talked with a friend who, among other things, was one of the developers at AdopteUnMec, and he gave me some direct links to both code and some other stuff done by the devs just on the AUM module, including api log test involving username Nazification.

Unfortunate, as I was really interested in the whole thing because wrapping websites in API to do some offline stuff had been on my mind recently, and this would have been at least a nice check of deduced website behaviours for my project :/