alt Hacker NewsMicrosoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then locks the server
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Before this article I'd have thought that Microslop was used to designate small snippets of AI slop, like "Let that sync in" or "And to be honest" and "It's not X, it's Y" and "Deepdive" and "Delve".
But nice to see that MS is Streisanding their way to a nice new nickname!
What were the sloperators of that channel thinking?
In any case, it should be Micro$lop (may not be banned...yet).
Windows 11 is definitely failing in weird ways for me, I don't know if it's due to slop. The latest example is that I can't launch Notepad via the start menu... I can launch other apps though.
lmfao
> Microsoft's brand image may already be at an all-time low
and they decide to make it even worse. it's extremely obvious this would be an objectively terrible PR move. you always take banter on the chin and show that you're working on improving the product.
instead, they try to clamp down on the banter, which, without fail, achieves the exact opposite: banter increases tenfold and you get ridiculed for being overly sensitive to actual criticism
Is Micro$lop also banned?
Sloppy.
This good
Does M$ honestly expect a positive outcome from this? What do they hope to accomplish?
May I coin the term "Slopware"?
Tells you a lot about where their focus is at as a company.
Slopya Nutella
(is that banned?)
it will take years to fix their broken products, if they ever focus on that
The irony is thick today. HN flagged a microslop post this morning.
IDK what's funnier/more pathetic, them doing this or an entire article getting written about it.
MicroslopSlop
> the software giant can’t risk getting more hatred towards their expensive investment in Copilot, especially since Microsoft’s head start in AI is starting to be overshadowed by competitors like Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and maybe even Apple in the near future
This sentence is from TFA, and I can't for the life of me understand it. "Head start"?? WTF?
Microsoft has a Discord? Why not Teams?
Micro$oft
Is Micro$$lop banned?
I would honestly be embarrassed to call myself "micro soft" in general.
Unless you're into that kind of thing.
Macroslop
they sincerely think that the primary problem they're facing is one of PR, don't they?
Personally I think 2000s Micro$oft would be disappointed that 2026 Microslop is hosting user communities on a 3rd party platform owned other another company rather than using their own competitor.
That's a 'snatch defeat from the jaws of victory moment'
remember when they sued a HS student Mike Rowe for his microrowesoft website?
The butthurt level is high up in there
I guess I'll have to go out of my way to refer to their shitty product as "Microslop Copilot" then.
What are they going to do? Ban me from using their operating system?
I am currently re-watching the HBO comedy show Silicon Valley, and oh man, is it hitting even harder this time than when it was originally released.
lmao
Absolutely the right decision, since anyone who used this word was expressing hateful speech. We are for freedom and should not allow all kinds of ultra-biased people to ruin it.
idiots
Most discord users are children, more news at 11
Discord/Reddit moderators living up to their obnoxious stereotype as usual.
What will Elon's "Macrohard" company be called? "Macroheil"?
Wow, so someone opened a discord server for a community and banned an insulting word for the community? This must be a first.
I'm sad that "Klopilot" only works in German.
"Hello, copilot, do you create slop? -> Skibidi slop slop slop aiiiiiii"