[demosthanos]

Even Urban Dictionary, hardly a site dominated by rule-following career software engineers, defines a Com as revolving around crime:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Com

Maybe Urban Dictionary is also populated by people who misunderstand the community, or maybe you weren't as deep as you thought.

[chrisco255]

Anyone can submit entries to Urban Dictionary.

[demosthanos]

That's literally my point—someone submitted that definition, 150+ people agreed with it, and no one submitted an alternate of any sort.

I would tend to expect that if OP is right that there's more nuance to Coms and it's not primarily about crime, there would be at least one alternate definition, because, as you note, anyone can make a definition there, and it's emphatically not a site dominated by the HN bubble.

That there is no alternate says that the crime-centric understanding of Coms is the primary one on at least one other site that doesn't match OP's stereotype.

[chrisco255]

If the word is just a made up newthing, why would there be an alternate definition? You can find 150 people to agree with anything on the internet. It's the most trivial thing in the world to achieve.

[psychoslave]

Probably managing to have this post to be upvoted at least 150 times will be a more compelling argument.