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Hard Fork? You Should Really Reconsider This Term.
I firmly believe that the Hard Fork term should be re-evaluated and most likely changed with less aggressive and more inclusive word choices.
Personally, I think that the word hard represents a form of hostility and microaggression, because it implicitly calls for violence.
The word fork is absolutely inacceptable in my opinion, since it's discriminatory and racist, because it's not inclusive enough:
I think that a progressive, open-minded community like the one we have on Steemit should really be more careful about things like this.
More importantly, I think that this platform should evolve in the direction of becoming a true safe space, where love, compassion and inclusion will flourish.
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ROFL!
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I understand what you are saying, but it is standard blockchain terminology for all blockchains, not just the Steem BC. It is meant to sound aggressive as it is a radical, a very big change that makes the old versions of the blockchain [partially] incompatible with the newer ones. And it is a fork, as the chain [temporarily] splits in 2.
There is a soft fork, that is mainly used for bugfixes etc (for example, when the Steem BC went from 0.19 to 0.19.1)
You are missing the sarcasm tag :P
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I'm not XD
I really hope this is sarcasm..
Soft language or political correctness wont make the problems disappear..
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Maybe you should check other posts in my blog and make your own conclusion ;)
no interest in feminism
Top tier trolling, lol... no one is safe! ^_^
I like it hard. Don't see what the problem with that!