It seems like the reason #SmooshGate blew up is that someone proposed "smoosh", nobody immediately shut it down, and it turned into a proxy fight over people's pre-existing feelings about the abstract question of "how much breakage is acceptable", right?
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Replying to @wycats
More or less. Also smoosh is fun and makes for a great meme?
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Replying to @bterlson
I don't think everyone following along gets that it's a joke. Between the PR, nobody shooting it down, and the seemingly serious Twitter poll, it's very easy to take away the impression that this was a real possibility based on Twitter and github banter.
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> seemingly serious Twitter poll Oxymoron detected
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Replying to @michaellnorth @bterlson
I think regular people assume that if the editor of the spec asks a real question via a Twitter poll, they did it for some kind of reason. At minimum, it's really hard to unsee the results.
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