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Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash
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i didnt know Microslop had a discord
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2026
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Honestly this was my biggest "wtf" takeaway from this. There's a Microsoft Copilot DISCORD SERVER? Are there other "official" Discord servers for other random Microsoft products? Why aren't they using Teams or whatever?
Maybe they haven't made an API for ICE in Teams yet
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Solution from the old ones: We used to replace the S with a $ sign in Microsoft (or Microshaft, or "Microfos" (Microshit) if you're Hungarian), so if you're writing it as Micro$lop, you get a few days evasion.
(Reason behind the abandonment of Micro$oft/Micro$haft/whatever: Windows 7, Linux and its community was much worse back then, "maybe not all companies are bad" sentiment popular in the early 10's, people suddenly thought all the crap Micro$lop did were conspiracy theories, etc.)
Not sure if it works on Discord but another old-school trick is Micro**slop
italicizing nothing creates an invisible break in the word
Here in Italy we used the winzozz calssifier. A portmanteu of "windows" and "zozzo" "sozzo" that stands for dirty, unpolished or allusive. Have fun with this lore drop
Anything but address the core issue. Consumers overwhelmingly see almost no benefit from AI, are sick of it being stuffed into everything, sick of being forced to use it at work, sick of being forced to fund it in our retirement accounts, sick of our water being used for it in the datacenters they're building, and sick of consumer products being out of stock or skyrocketing in price because of it... Banning a word won't solve any of that!
LOL All they need to do is stop pushing what they call "AI" into everything they make, turn it into a opt-in only feature, allowing people to remove every fucking bit of Coslop from their PCs. They don't want to because it would prove what they already know: Microslop is a Sloperator and admitting the truth would be temporarily painful to their earnings. Fixing things would take far too long, so Microslop would prefer to not do that work. Satya needs to get over it and admit defeat.
You know, the CEO could basically end "microslop" over night. Kill their AI division and investments and for the most part people would stop calling them microslop. They got the name after the CEO complained about the use of the word slop for AI slop.
Idk, this is just me, some regular dude not being paid enough to own 7 homes and a vacation home for when I need to get away.
something something bootstraps, something something work harder
If Windows 11 detects that you said, typed, or thought of the word "microslop" it deletes all your data, and sends your personal data to the ~~CIA~~ Grok that then promptly sends you to your nearest gulag.
No no grok threatens you with publishing fake porn of you
... I think that's just regardless.
(But I hate how I'll have to explain to ppl which porn of mine isn't fake.)
Microslop
switch. to. linux.
Well well well, if it isn't Microslop suffering the consequences of its own stupid choices.
The idea of Microsoft operating a Discord channel is funny and pathetic on so many levels.
I mean, it really earned, that name, you know: MICROSLOP! MICROSLOP! MICROSLOP! MICROSLOP! MICROSLOP!
Maybe their CEO Slopya Nutella should not be so thin skinned? He is to majorly blame for 99% of this MICROSLOP!
If it bugs them that badly, I say people need to do it even more.
If they hate it so much, that's how I'll always refer to them from now on.
There's a lovely browser plugin that automagically changes "Microsoft" to "Microslop" and "Satya Nadella" to "Slopya Nutella" and I'm never uninstalling it now!
Streisand effect shit. Stop being slop if you don't want to be called slop.
This answer feels very "do you guys not have phones?".
Install Linux, Problem Solved.
This is the Year of the Linux Desktop.
This is almost certainly a work-related thing. Most people, even on Windows, hate Teams and don't use it unless they have to for their job.
I used to think "Teams can't be that bad" and then I had to use it for work. It's astonishingly bad. I'm not sure if it's just how they use it at this place, but it's bad.
Everything is a chat. There's no channels. So nothing is discoverable, and if you sort of remember a conversation you have to see if it was in the standup chat, in the planning chat, in a ad hoc chat...
There's no threads. So if you have a chat for say release-123, and someone says "Feature 1 has a bug" and someone else says "Feature-2 has a bug", you can't isolate them in separate threads. It's all flat so they smash into each other.
It's a good example of why no one ever tried to build an 'everything' app. It just doesn't work, and there are so many terrible design decisions, like having multiple places you have to go to manage settings, where most apps have only one.
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Microsoft has a Discord?
All the teams devs hang out there
💀💀💀
Microslop does apparently, but under a fake name.
The Slop doesn't like Teams, lol. Meanwhile, I have to use it for work.
Teams is such a stupid piece of software. At first I was like "well this will make organising things really easy!" but I quickly learned that everyone has their own ideas about organisation and the moment a new person pops in there's a new way of doing it. The end result is a chat application with a fuckton of random files flying around, various applications just smashed into it, and it tries to do so many things that it barely works for the core features it should be used for.
Turns out, the best way to organise files was to have a common system and just use the regular FS all along. Who would've thought it?
You left out the fun part where Teams itself gets an update that moves or deprecrates a feature you are accustomed to.
It is so cumbersome to use. Which chat did I see that vital piece of information in? Why does a feature that used to open in Teams itself now open a browser window to display it?
Mine has a permanent warning triangle telling me something is wrong with one of my accounts but it doesn't tell me what or how to fix it. Neither account seems to be problematic either.
It also spontaneously updates and withholds notifications from me. I don't really sit with my nose in Teams all the time, so every so often I'll remember to check it and notice a colleague has sent me a question or something 4 hours ago. 💀
Honestly just give me an IRC or something instead.
The borg says no
…Who would be in the Microsoft Discord? Why?
Wasn’t there some old internet saying that once megacorps join a social media platform en masse, it’s uncool? What happened to that?
Is this true anymore?
I feel like corporate astroturfing has gotten so intense that users are either oblivious, or get acclimated to it and keep using the platform. Because, you know, where else are you gonna go?
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Should we go back to micro-shaft?
I prefer the classic, concise, M$
How about a combined attack?
Micro$lop
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