Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170521154728/@comment-1637496-20170530150539

Kupomancer wrote: Who on earth came up with DE (Destroyer Escort) in the first place (and why)? My best guess is that DE came from whoever made the initial translation of Kancolle Viewer, it had DE as translation of kaibokan for a long time; internally kaibokan existed in the game since the beginning, their ship type has the value 1.

Destroyer escorts are loosely the equivalent of kaibokan in the sense that they were the most widely produced convoy escorts of the respective navies. Also, wikipedia says so (very important for many fellows).

Ar-cen-ciel wrote: Personally I would've taken a more autocratic approach if I were in Tsubakura's place, by finding out the most appropriate abbreviation and then pressure KC3Kai and other viewer developers into it before giving Reddit and other communities a chance of debate, and I definitely won't give anyone a chance to vote for this matter. Even if the rest of the communities were adamant about staying with DE right now, it wouldn't really matter since they'll figure out how pointless it were to defend the DE usage sooner or later. The reason why I didn't do it is (apart from Tsubakura jumped the gun on it) because I lacked the authority to do so, and I'd much prefer to maintain a cordial relationship with others as much as possible.

Either way, with Tsubakura ended what he started with everyone else weary of the debate, it's just a what could've been talk now. But I sure as hell ain't satisfied with this decision, I can tell you this much. Tsubakura wanted to reach a consensus, but he also said that he doesn't give a damn about which choice is popular, the two positions are mutually incompatible, even more so after he opened the doors to the whole "let's choice it democratically" affair with his EE/ES/EV poll; if he's not satisfied with the outcome he has only himself to blame, he placed himself in a position where he couldn't satisfy both of his goals and he refused to accept it, squirming and squirting while making conflicting announcements every few days or hours.

Dandan550 wrote: Long ago, the USN category them as DE due to similar roles to their DE's, however because of the big differences they later put them as "Escort Ship" The closest thing to the USN classifying them as DE was the "Army-Navy Journal of Recognition" using interchangeably both DE and PF; I don't think I saw any official USN document where they're classified as that.