Please don’t make insubstantial comments about project names. There is a plague of this kind of comment here.

Well op has 3x more karma then you which means he's 3x more likely to understand the hn vibe then you. Secondly, the famous joke says that there are 2 hard problems in computer science - cache invalidation and naming things, so names of the computer projects are legitimate topic.

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iamnothere 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I rarely comment hence the low karma, which isn’t a reliable indicator anyway (plus this is not Reddit). And besides, this is my fourth or fifth account.

Naming comments are too frequently used to derail conversations here, particularly threads on FOSS projects. These threads never lead to a productive conversation and I fail to see any purpose other than trolling or “joking around” (if you can even call it that).

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hundchenkatze 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Then just downvote/flag and move on. Commenting just to complain furthers the derailment, here were are 4 layers in...

imo there's nothing wrong with discussing project names.

	▲	iamnothere 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Frankly I’d be happy to see a formal rule against it, or at least a community norm, but only frequent complaint is likely to drive things in that direction. I see these comments almost daily, it’s a true plague. And never once have I seen it lead to an actual real-world change. Name-related comments most often serve as a sort of drive-by “dunking” for indirectly hating on projects. Do we really need a hundredth person commenting on a thread about Mastodon that there is also a band with the same name? What does that add to the conversation? I recognize that I’m tilting at windmills, but someone has to speak up about it.