or right answers, im not your mom
Can't have anyone advocating for Subversion when Great Lord Linus has blessed us with Git.
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2024
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
- What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
- Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
- Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
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Some acronyms you might see.
- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
- YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
- CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
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you have been banned from c/linuxsucks for subversive advocation of foss.
FOSS is fine, just as long as it's 250% faster, more feature rich, more stable, and more user-friendly than the proprietary alternatives.
I was going to make a similar joke -_-
Oh yea, that guy is weird LMFAO. I can't tell if he's trolling half the time or if he's serious. Kinda leaning on serious lol
He claims that FOSS is taking away jobs from "legitimate businesses" which is why he likes proprietary software better.
100% trolling
He’s a Microsoft shareholder.
It's a shame, I think there's space for a community for gentle and good-natured roasting of Linux – no one has ever run a Linux OS without encountering some pain points (as with all software, to a greater or lesser extent) and shared frustration through comedy can actually be beneficial. It's definitely true that the Linux community can take itself too seriously sometimes.
That's not what this is, though, it's a furious, blinkered, irrational attack. Fuck that noise. More power to the users.
Well shit. Thought that was what the sub was. Didn't read much, but it seemed that way on the surface.
The effect created by such Internet trolls is not very big, but they manage to make certain forums meaningless because people stop commenting on the articles when these trolls sit there and constantly create an aggressive, hostile atmosphere toward those whom they don’t like. The trolls react to certain news with torrents of mud and abuse. This makes it meaningless for a reasonable person to comment on anything there. (https://web.archive.org/web/20131013012755/http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=100&story_id=38052)
Of course it's hard to separate people who are being cocks just because they're cocks, from someone who is being a cock for some particular purpose, and maybe it's not that useful to try to distinguish. Maybe this person really just revels in causing other people to get mad at them. But it is weird that they're working so hard on so transparently trying to make the experience on Lemmy worse, and it's also weird that LW is providing a safe space for them to do it in.
Lemmy.world has never been good about dealing with assholes and trolls for most of the time they've been around. It took them more than a year to ban @[email protected] permanently, and they never banned some of their more egregious trolls period, or they even unbanned them after being banned.
I think you fell prey to that dude's rouse... The whole point of the linuxsucks community is to stir up people and ban them. They're doing that all day, every day. madthumbs is a troll.
If you speak up or engage with the misinformation there, they got you and you're getting banned.
nah you don't get that committed to schizoposting for that long without sincerity i think
I think there is quite a range, well into insanity if it's on the internet.
"subversion" would mean you're subverting the purpose of the community.
I got banned like 2 month's ago 😅
like, I get how he's using it, but
one "subverts" a government, regime, dynasty or political organization. It suggests he sees himself as a king in a kingdom or something. his use of eg "pollution" and "poor morals" as ban justifications are also suggestive.
This person banned me too. I think the post was like Linus Torvalds explaining some of the shortcomings of linux... in 2010. I observed the simple fact that this video was almost 15 years old and that literally every single problem Linus identified at the time has either been completely solved or major progress has been made. I said that this was dishonest and tended to discredit his own position. He deleted my comment without acknowledgement and banned me for subversion.
This person is clearly not acting in good faith. This person is not making an onion: there's no farce or satire, and the nearest approach to humor seems to be the fact of the theme of the community. I don't get the impression they are laughing along with these would-be jokes. I looked into the community's post history, and it seems they were doing really well a while ago. I looked at those submissions and most were completely different: They were ironic, making light of linux' known definite shortcomings. Also, they were usually at least a little bit funny. I eventually found the subreddit of the same name which is intended to be ironic and funny and tongue-in-cheek apparently (and allows people of all opinions to participate). In other words, this person took the idea of a subreddit, stripped it of its context, irony, humor, and community interaction, and is confused why people don't upvote their content anymore.
On review of the community content, it seems that the majority of content posted recently is dishonest or misleading in some way. Unsurprisingly, this content seems to be original. On review of the modlog, it seems the majority of bans are for subversion.
I rule this person a confused Power Tripping Bastard.
I don't use this word often because I think it can have negative connotations I don't intend, but the English language doesn't have a better word I can think of right now. They are a fucking pussy. To clarify I meant that idiot mod.
yea that tracks
Clear PTB.
Can you show some of the deleted comments. I'm just curious.
I don't know how to show them, but the post i made was admittedly critical of the community and his ideas.
If they removed them in the modlog, just take a screenshot of the modlog entries. If they didn't remove them, you can just link to them
Doesn't show in the modlog, they used ban with content removal to avoid modlog entries.
Maybe they meant semantic version?
I made a post about c/[email protected] a while back, that person is basically a troll with nothing better to do. A lot of those posts are just him complaining about linux and many of them are insanely nonsensical.
Looking at the community now it seems he went off the deep end and locked the community and every other post so no one could criticize them anymore. Though that also means he won't be getting much engagement anymore.
I got into a lengthy argument with this person before realizing they are a troll and blocked them.
Oh yeah, that guy is dead serious, and he is a crank.
I am guessing they think it means "having the ability to reason"
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