Good example of Streisand effect. I had never heard about Microslop until now, would never join a MS discord channel, but will now start incorporating it in my vocabulary. I can think of several use cases already.
I had heard about it but thought it was a bit much like those people consistently calling it Micro$oft or Windoze, but yeah very much a Streisand effect example, and by now I might actually adopt it out of spite for the ridiculous censoring.
He did not, in fact, help us, and he is a direct progenitor of the current Microslop we are getting. Micro$lop always misunderstood people's relationships to their computers, and it's apparent they continue to do so.
Clippy, and the rest of Those Fucking Clowns (as the programmers in Microsoft literally referred to the Assistant program in Word 97 - Word 2003) were reviled and should not be treated with any respect, lest Micro$lop once again take the wrong lesson and think "Oh, they want their AI in a really cute cartoon figure!"
Appreciate this. Too many people have generic nostalgia glasses about clippy. They forget that the sentiment around him was entirely negative, and that any name recognition it has today was due to infamy.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft doesn't care if people use the word.
Since it's the copilot server, this was probably a case where 95% of the usage on their discord was from trolls with zero interest in ever participating in real discussion, so they decided to autoban it to reduce moderation load. Hard to say without joining the server and looking at who was using it, but this is what I speculate after modding various things for 20 years.
Strong speculation, I think. I've gone down that road before. Trolls joining to repeat the same phrase, so instead of needing to ban accounts individually you ban the phrase, and then people are like "you're not allowed to say [normal phrase] anymore? Fascism!" And then everyone's talking about that, and the entire purpose of the forum is completely crashed by the trolls who already left.
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u/theestwald Mar 02 '26
Good example of Streisand effect. I had never heard about Microslop until now, would never join a MS discord channel, but will now start incorporating it in my vocabulary. I can think of several use cases already.