I used all my nine ranked votes. I had a favourite option or two. But for me it's all about maximising the chances of the current name being defeated.
Imagine that the site were starting out today, and we were given these options: 1) devnull.com 2) apt-get-news.com 3) soylentnews.com Two of these are clearly related to the userbase and the computers we use, and IMHO at least as clever. One is a reference to a cheesy 70s scifi movie, and a beating-a-dead-horse meme based on it (the "Home" scene in the movie was great though). I don't think the current name is in any way better than the options, it's there due to inertia.
Many of the new options are better, and quite clever. This site is still being built and improved upon, so I feel this is a good time to improve the name, too.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Iskender on Tuesday April 22 2014, @09:23PM
I used all my nine ranked votes. I had a favourite option or two. But for me it's all about maximising the chances of the current name being defeated.
Imagine that the site were starting out today, and we were given these options:
1) devnull.com
2) apt-get-news.com
3) soylentnews.com
Two of these are clearly related to the userbase and the computers we use, and IMHO at least as clever. One is a reference to a cheesy 70s scifi movie, and a beating-a-dead-horse meme based on it (the "Home" scene in the movie was great though). I don't think the current name is in any way better than the options, it's there due to inertia.
Many of the new options are better, and quite clever. This site is still being built and improved upon, so I feel this is a good time to improve the name, too.