How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by alexchamberlain on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @03:12AM (#18492483)

> sorry lads

Come on, we can do better than that. This isn't an ol' boys club.

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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by DanBC on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @07:51AM (#18493422)

In Ireland "lads" is (weirdly to British people) gender neutral and is used by men and women to refer to mixed groups of people.

I don't know if itsbenlee is Irish or in Ireland.

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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by scrollaway on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @03:17AM (#18492497)

"Lads" is an appropriate, albeit very british, way of addressing men, which the poster above was doing. Why the noise?

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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by alexchamberlain on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @07:40AM (#18493383)

Little disappointed to be so downvoted for calling this out; I don't really do it very often. Also a brit, but I didn't know that the others in the conversation were men. It's pretty easy to use `guys` instead.

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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by DoreenMichele on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:05PM (#18499383)

I didn't downvote you.

But it was a short comment intended to convey "Oops! Sorry. My bad." So you basically replied to an apology with a suggestion that the apology had committed some greater sin.

My feeling is that probably falls under the heading "Throwing the baby out with the bathwater." I don't think it qualifies as a Best Practice for improving the social climate on some metric or other.

That's not intended to lecture you. I'm just trying to make conversation on a topic I find interesting. Given the nature of the beast, I'm having very mixed feelings about commenting at all.

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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by freehunter on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:57AM (#18493778)

"Guys" is just as gender-specific as "lads".

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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by alexchamberlain on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @01:52PM (#18496537)

The defence was it was a Britishism, where guys is gender neutral.

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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by scrollaway on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @02:04PM (#18496655)

I don't understand your post/replies. Do you have a problem with people using britishisms? The "defence" spelling is also a britishism, so I'm not sure where you're going with all that.

"Guys" is not any more gender neutral than "Lads" (they both are often used in a gender-neutral way, but they're etymologically male). "Folks" is what I personally use if I specifically want something gender-neutral, but "lads" is definitely appropriate if the author is speaking to men.

Which brings me back to "this is a lot of noise for nothing".

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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by freehunter on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @07:08PM (#18499087)

Literally the first definition of "guy" is "a man". "Guy" is only gender neutral when you're referring to a group of people.

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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by dheral on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @04:46AM (#18492764)

Why not address all readers, instead of only men?

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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by scrollaway on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @05:37AM (#18492915)

The poster above was not addressing readers, but rather three specific people.

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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers by forcemajeure on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @05:05AM (#18492818)

Apparently you can use 'guys' now instead

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