Hello I'm not a person who is affected by this community moderator but I'm posting on behalf of people who are, since they don't seem to know of this community yet. I attempted to reach some via DM but I'm not sure they'll respond. So I'm making this post since I feel this needs to be addressed.
Recently I was made aware of a community that appeared randomly on Lemmy.world. It seems to be a troll community given the type of content, but the reason I'm posting about it here specifically is that this mod seems to be banning anyone who points this out or goes against his narrative. Furthermore he is only using the autoremove on ban function, not removing any content the users have posted, which I believe is deliberate in attempt to prevent the content from showing up under the modlog and revealing the hypocrisy.
Some samples of comments:
Comment from: @glimse@lemmy.world
Everything else you posted has been pretty cringe but what he fuck is up with this one, dude lol
comment from: @rain_worl@lemmy.world
free software is SLOWING DOWN tech advancement??????? WHAT???????
comment from: @rain_worl@lemmy.world
comment from: @the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world
First off, nice new community. I look forward to days of quality posts such as this./s
Second, how many Linux distros have this level of data collection, and what is their estimated market share?
All of these were retrieved from the API, even though they aren't included in the modlogs, I could've included more but it's kind of a time consuming process to look for them and retrieve them. Viewing removed comments is easier on Lemmy than it is on Reddit but it still isn't easy.
What do you guys think, does this seem like power-tripping? Also does this person's content seem like blatant troll content?
CC: @glimse@lemmy.world @rain_worl@lemmy.world @the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world
People who's comments I mentioned, I CCed them so they know I did this on their behalf
Yea we should remove Linux from existence just to see all the things that stop working. No more internet.
Whats next? Watersucks? Unless you are drinking the closed source Coke.
That china meme is mostly incoherent and also just literally racism and defense of billionaire eugenicist bill gates what the actual fuck?
People dont get notifications if you pinned them from a post, you have to do it from a comment
Oh, that's unfortunate. Well I guess I'll just do it in a top comment.
Subscribed! The amount of linux fanboyism on this platform has been insane as of late to where if you even post anything factually negative (yes, Linux can get viruses) you get downvoted to hell. It’s nice to see a counter-culture sub once in a while.
As others have said, if you don’t like it, block it.
As others have said, if you don’t like it, block it.
I didn't say explicitly that I didn't like it or that people shouldn't use it, just that the main mod has been power-tripping and very likely is a troll. So if you want to hang out there that's fine. Though I wouldn't expect any kind of content diversity there. It's likely going to be just be the main mod making posts, which he might even give up on later. It's also very likely he'll ban you for a misunderstanding, since some of the people there were banned seemingly for nothing.
You’re aware of the Streisand effect, right? It actually cuts both ways. I browse all and hadn’t even heard of that sub and a lot of others probably haven’t too. But your whining about the mod and community have brought a spotlight to it which raises the amount of attention it gets, probably not in the way you’re wanting.
Are you deliberately trying to misrepresent the meaning of the post or do you legitimately not understand. I'm not telling you to not go to the linuxsucks community, go join it if you really want to. This isn't a plea to get people not to join it. It's a warning about their behavior. But please, feel free to go on about how I'm supposedly helping them. The goal of this post is neither to help them, nor to hurt them. It is simply to provide information.
This is an example of a community I don't subscribe to, because I'm not the target demographic.
I think a Linux sucks community should exist, it can exist, and if the moderator wants to remove anything about Linux not sucking that's fine too. The way this moderator is doing it, they should just turn on mod only posting.
I looked at the community sidebar, and one of the community rules is no promoting Linux, no defending Linux, so at least it's consistent
Lemmy needs a diverse set of voices.
Counterexample: if I go into fuck cars and talk about vehicles in any positive fashion, I'm going to get dog piled and probably banned
I've actually been fairly fine in fuck cars, both Reddit and Lemmy editions. I actually like cars, well, some of them anyway.
The difference between !fuckcars@lemmy.world and linuxsucks is that the first one is largely a fact and logic based community about the problems with car dependency in urban areas, and car-dependent infrastructure.
linuxsucks is a single troll who's talking shit about linux for seemingly no real reason, some of his posts are insanely illogical, and make very little sense. So yeah I definitely think these communities are anything like each other.
I don't think you want to create an expectation that communities have to be logical and open to reasoned debate. That's a lot of work to enforce
I don't expect that for all communities. That would be unreasonable. Though generally, it's preferable to not have communities with no other purpose than trolling. Which is basically all of the content in the community I mentioned in the post. These types of communities don't really benefit anyone and can be breeding grounds for toxicity and possibly even dangerous misinformation.
I've done that in fuckcars and not gotten banned. A lot of the users can be rabid but the mods aren't quite vegan tier as far as I can tell.
