This one made me giggle. The linuxsucks dude is a trip. I would love to see a psychological workup on a person that creates a 1-person community on an ultra-niche platform and protects against other people joining to the death.
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2025
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I've messaged him, he's alright. Not exactly a terrible dude. Just quirky.
I definitely wouldn't have thought to label him terrible. Just emotionally delicate enough to not be able to handle dissenting opinions and harboring a sense of powerlessness that has made him want to create an environment where he gets to control the people that try to participate.
I can relate. I might start a "somethingsucks" community and may the Gods help anyone that tries to usurp me.
Yea. I got banned for asking if his sub was satire. Apparently it is not lol
I know it shouldn't but your experience made me laugh. Not satire, indeed :)
Lol shooketh. I wanted in on the satire so bad I was blinded and didn't see the clear anger this man had for being free.
This is most likely his villain origin story: He tried linux making him a hacker in his mind, broke it and couldn't fix it, the Arch forum told him to RTFM and pointed him to the wik so he reinstalled Windows and has made the entire linux community his ~~arch~~ nemesis.
Admitting some people aren't savvy enough to run linux is his kryptonite.
Nice lore
Should've RTFM.... Or tried something like Ubuntu. Lol
Well, if it makes you feel any better, I banned that sub from my feed. So I guess we're even if you join my club. We don't have meetings, and there's nothing you need to do. In fact, I would prefer it if you don't do anything or ever bring the club up again. But you're welcome to join!
Hey now, linuxsucks doesn't do that anymore!
...because every post is locked, nobody can comment.
(unless they are banning due to votes, I can't find it in the modlogs if they are)
unless they are banning due to votes, I can't find it in the modlogs if they are
That community is on .world, which on Lemmy v0.19.3. Moderators there cannot yet see who voted.
Saw someone with their own instance say on another post (not on their instance) that they could tell that said post had 5 downvotes by users they had tagged.
Not sure that it's true, but I do find it a bit unnerving. I was on (the now defunct) Kbin and the downvotes were public, which didn't bother me as much because it was at least transparent/equal (though I also had someone pester me over a few votes spanning weeks on their just-them-posting-a-popular-comic place, said it was an error with their averages and then they still silently banned/blocked me after).
First point is correct.
Actually, you can still use Mbin today to see upvotes on Lemmy communities
Well the information is out there in the wild for anybody with the know-how to access. Either via running their own instance on the side (doesn't need any comms on it), or just via Mbin etc.
Votes are public, they can be seen across different instances, the only thing that's unresolved is seeing them using the standard Lemmy software as a non admin user.
This discussion has been had before and people didn't like the idea of it being public. What I am pointing out was there too: that pseudo-privacy is not great either especially when anybody can be a moderator or host an instance (but not to the point where I will expect others will know my dissenting reply is not the source of the 1 downvote).
It would be more understandable if this were semi-anonymized data that could be cross-referenced, but there's already other issues (nebulous or subjective hidden thresholds, moderators moderating their own posts). Unless it is incredibly cautious (detecting mainly scripting or obsession-level voting) I expect it'll be a repeating annoyance especially if the approach is widely used.
I think its a core design issue; if votes are free and unlimited then they will be gamified, one method to provide a feedback mechanism here is to make votes accountable.
There are other moderation styles, like the slashdot random moderation points, which show some promise.
I've seen other gamified models where downvotes are scarce, or cost time, or cost money, so they are reserved for bad behavior.
The design of showing votes on posts makes it a signal, and that signal will be gamified. I think for smaller communities having outside third parties chill participation is bad for the overall growth of lemmy. In the long term I imagine a community level system selected by the moderators would fit best.
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- Only people who have posted or commented can downvote / upvote
- Only people who are subscribed can upvote/downvote
- only people who have repetitional guarantees can upvote/downvote
- posts only visible to subscribers
Just trying to get local representation into communities.
etc. etc
Moderators can't on 0.19.8 either
It was added in 0.19.4
I know, but it still not being on the Lemmy Web UI makes it basically unusable for the vast majority of mods.
And I know about Tesseract, I was the one suggesting the change: https://feddit.org/post/6649095/4045658
How do you actually do that? I had a look in a community I mod, and I couldn't find any way to actually do it in either Jerboa or lemmy-ui (web).
Not all frontends support it yet. I know Tesseract does.
But you'd assume that the two managed by the official Lemmy developers, including the default one for web included with basically every Lemmy instance, would have the feature.
Not to mention, the dev in that GitHub specifically said:
I just added this to jerboa also.
So in theory it should be there. I just can't find it. Unless it got pulled out at some point more recently...
And it looks the change was merged into main, so yes, I think it should be supported by the app: https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/pull/1331
I am not a mod, so I can't check, but it sounds like on a post/comment, you tap three-dots > Moderation > View votes
it sounds like on a post/comment, you tap three-dots > Moderation > View votes
Unfortunately not. I havet he "Moderation" sub-menu, but it only contains "Remove Post", "Lock Post", or "Feature in Community" on posts, and only "Distinguish Comment" (if it's my own comment) or "Remove Comment" (otherwise) on comments.
Linuxsucks is a wild place
Seems like the mod now wants to move back to Reddit
They will have more success there as people are more tolerant of windows.
I'm pro Linux but I laughed at the memes
There were jokes? I looked at many posts there and just saw impotent rage
Literally the only post I've seen from c/carnivore was for an omnivorous recipe
Yeah, its rough to find some pure carnivore content for things like kidneys, or even things like fish soup. I get as close as I can and indicate what I would change to push it into the pure territory.
I will never understand people who want to give up fruits and vegetables. Not only are they beautiful but they are really fun and relaxing to grow. There is something about growing and harvesting your own vegetables that can't be wrong lol
Fruit is amazing! Makes some of the very best desserts!
Linuxsucks isn't a community. It's one guy on a mountain of shit.
Honestly, he doesn't deserve the attention he's getting right now.
Slowly becoming an echo chamber of toxic one-ups-manship has never resulted in anything bad happening to a board moderator or its members.
Just ask Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka
To be fair you literally asked to be banned
https://lemmy.ca/comment/13926355
Ban me too since Vegan Pizza called you out on your nonsense.
My response:
ok! I have banned you per your request. If you ever want to come back, just send me a DM
WRT Vegan Pizza, they only down vote, they did not start a conversation. I'm not sure down voting counts as being called out
I blocked carnivore immediately as it was an obvious teenage attempt at trolling. Granted its creation seemed to be a response to the false flag vegan communities.
You mean the vegan communities aren't acting in good faith when they call everybody "carnists" and "bloodmouths"???
false flag vegan communities
I've got some bad news for you.