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Originally Posted by Oblarg
A thread outlining those practices which are actually rude/unnecessary/disruptive would be much better at raising awareness then a thread about something tangentially related with which a whole load of other things are being conflated.
I don't think anyone here gets all that upset if a person pulling a robot cart uses the word "robot" instead of "excuse me," all other things being equal. If they do, I'd say that's a personal problem.
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I'd say there are a lot of people here that find people yelling "robot!" to be obnoxious and rude, myself included. To me it's no different than someone yelling "move!" or "get out of the way!".
Unless there is a deadly accident about to occur where syllables matter, yelling "robot!" or "move!" creates the appearance that the person yelling it is viewing themselves as being more important than everyone else around them, rather than as equals.