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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
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.
I certainly don't find this to be the case, and at any rate if this is a problem it is a problem on a scale several orders of magnitude smaller than the very real problem of people being unreasonable/unsafe while pushing their robots around.
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