Maybe chapo.chat was the names we changed along the way, but only floated the idea
Thats basically what its been for 2 months before today, just weekly posts about people getting mad that the name is changing but now today people act like the mods sprung this out of nowhere and the users havent been given more than a minute to reasonably and rationally suggest an alternative.
Why would anyone suggest an alternative when the admins have been, in those very same discussions, making it pretty clear that the decision was already made?
In other words, what would give anyone here the impression that alternatives were wanted?
Doesnt prevent anyone from not whining and offering their sage advice about all other avenues of moderation on this site.
People spend so much time complaining that no one begged them for an alternative name when they could just try and come up with an actual alternative name. Or just shut up tbh cause chances arent exactly improving when the only people who arent whining like that are coming up with names that are either just worse memes or sound like an online left library.
Again, the lack of effort reflects the fact that no serious call to action has been made.
I mean, speaking only for me, all I saw before today was a couple vague "maybe we should change the name" posts, spread out over several months. I was certainly not aware that the name was definitively changing.
To be clear, I support changing the name, I'm just confused by suggestions that this was everywhere. Maybe I wasn't looking in the right places?
turning a big dial taht says "chapo.chat" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
SPECIAL NAME CHANGE STATEMENT
INTRA-SITE NAME CHANGE PREDICTION SERVICE
22:09:05 2021-03-07
ATTENTION: THIS IS A TEST OF THE NAME CHANGE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM. THIS IS ONLY A TEST.
...THE NAME CHANGE PRE-CHANGE PROCEDURE HAS BEEN INVOKED. POST-PRE-CHANGE PROCEDURES ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN IMMINENTLY. IT IS ADVISED THAT ALL USERS TAKE APPROPRIATE MEASURES FOR CATEGORY 3 POST-PRE-CHANGE CONDITIONS...
THIS WAS A TEST OF THE NAME CHANGE WARNING SYSTEM. THIS WAS ONLY A TEST.
