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Comment by LoganDark | Hacker News Reader

Naming conflict with https://www.hoplite.gg

Almost every possible name that is not a portmanteau, made-up word, or combination of N words has a naming "conflict". This is not an interesting thing to say and I wish that people would stop saying this on everything anyone ever posts on HN. It almost feels like it should be against HN rules to point out that something else shares the same name with no additional statements.

For one, it's interesting to me because I've already known Hoplite for years as nothing to do with AI. For two, I'm not sure how sharing that is so egregious it should be against the rules? Is there an interpretation I'm missing of my original comment? Does pointing out another Hoplite get interpreted as disparaging or accusatory in some way? Does it go against intellectual curiosity?

The term "conflict" implies "there is a problem here". I would say it's very lightly disparaging, because it implies the author didn't even do basic research on other things that are also named the thing they decided to call it.

I actually checked HN rules and just saw this:

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

So, there you go, I guess.

you are complaining about yourself

Yeah, luckily they're in quite a different domain to us -- hopefully shouldn't have too much trouble winning the SEO battle

I don't imagine they get too many Google searches anyway, but they are incredibly popular in competitive Minecraft spheres.

Good luck, `hoplite` triggers a ton of Minecraft media for me and that name has been around 10 years.

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