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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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this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2026
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This is 100% going on the work teams chat as soon as it's relevant. (not long)
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Microsoft has a Discord?
Microslop does apparently, but under a fake name.
All the teams devs hang out there
💀💀💀
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Microslop, now with added Barbers Streisand effect.
…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?
Diehard Windows fanboys exist and I'm sure they actually believe their voice in a corporate Discord server matters. Just have a look at the OnePlus community forums, it's comically how much they think the company would listen to anything they have to say
Oneplus did listen to the community during the Oneplus 1 and 2 era, but everything started going to shit slowly. Now they are just another soulless flagship churning factory
This, I was there when it happened.
They actually hired a few from our ranks (rom community) to work on Oxygen OS.
I myself received an Oppo find 7a for testing (Chinese version of what would become the one plus 1)
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believe it or not there are microsoft fanboys so it doesn't surprise me there is a discord. You can also find A LOT of them on bluesky of all places where they seem to be worse than the "just use linux" people.
You can also find A LOT of them on bluesky of all places where they seem to be worse than the “just use linux” people.
Jesus fucking christ, proselyting for the majority OS for a corporation worth billions?
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i didnt know Microslop had a discord
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?
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Plot Twist: Someone should make a discord server (or whatever) called Microslop that helps people with problems in their products.
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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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So, they’re going to stop pushing AI slop…?
No?
Then they’re not serving you. They’re serving someone else and you’re either the product, or the byproduct. Get a Mac, or switch to Linux, if you’re still running Windows in 2026.
I mean obviously, “buy a whole new machine” is kind of a tall order, but some of us were willing to vote with our wallets. Linux is free and requires virtually no commitment. It’s pretty trivial to go back to Windows if you really want to do — even from within Linux.
I wouldn’t go for a Mac, firstly because I don’t like Macs (never have) but also more importantly, if tradition has shown us anything by now is that Apple likes to wait things out and give it their own spin afterwards.
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Telling people who are sick of mircoslop to get a mac is like telling people who are sick of getting punched in the face to get punched in the throat instead.
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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 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.
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Streisand effect shit. Stop being slop if you don't want to be called slop.
The moment I saw this name a month or so ago I was really really really hopeful it would catch on. This is great.
TIL the term Microslop goes as far back as 2005 at least, when an Apple user complaint about Microslop's PST file format in an Apple forum. Also TIL about the term Sloperator:
Microslop and its Sloperators!
slop operator music kicks in
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MicroSlop CoPile-o'-shit
Well well well, if it isn't Microslop suffering the consequences of its own stupid choices.
lol, That certainly won't backfire...
MS Coslopit
Woulda thought MS would have a slack or teams or whatever dogwater multi user chat product no one uses that they have idk
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Microslop
Well, there's really no point in following their Discord if you don't like Windows as it is.
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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.
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