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Saw a post without noticing the community and commented a genuine comment with good intentions.

Apparently it was against the rules of that community and I was banned.

Original post:

My (removed) comment:

And yeah, the last comment was sarcasm.

I just don't really understand why is there a community for shitting on Linux? Like I can get not liking it, and hating the Linux die hard fans, but it really is an amazing thing that is integral to almost all modern computing... Kind of like hating social media by having a facebook page for it.

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[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 3 points 18 minutes ago

That whole community is just one guy posting memes. Some are funny but mostly its just odd how much he hates Linux.

Whatever :)

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)
[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago

Hummm... Guess you're to sensible? I mean I'm die hard linux lover for 3 years now and will never switch back to Windows... EVER!

However, I found some of those posts quite funny !

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There was a time when there was an annual "Linux Sucks" presentation that I liked because it was a roundup of candid, yet constructive criticism of Linux (and then at some point the person running that went off the deep end and started yelling about woke agendas).

I wouldn't mind there being a whole community devoted to pointing out shit that is poorly designed or just broken when running linux, and we as a community then try to fix them or find workarounds.

But as others have pointed out, that community isn't a community, it's literally just one account hanging out by themselves.

[–] drhoopoe@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 minutes ago

I wouldn’t mind there being a whole community devoted to pointing out shit that is poorly designed or just broken

But isn't that every linux forum?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 1 hour ago

It's the same argument I've heard about the "complexity" of Mastodon: too many choices, which is I guess why people largely stopped going to websites outside the major social networks. Monopoly over competition, it's like everyone is pining for a monarchy.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

It's like going to a vegan community saying "meat isn't so bad". You're obviously not going to get good responses.

[–] Breve@pawb.social 42 points 6 hours ago

It's not a "community", it's one person making all the posts because I guess they wanted to make hating Linux their entire personality. 🤷

[–] Auster@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago

Whether it's a rage-click community, a community made for an agenda, or both, I don't know, but in either cases, I wouldn't see as surprising for the mods in such a community to be very trigger-happy. Best you can do, I think, is to block communities and individuals with such a profile, and to recommend others to not engaging (remember to explain why if you do it, btw).

[–] lol@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

Not content with unasked for evangelizing in Windows communities and posts, this Stallman's Witness tries their hand in an even less welcome locale.

Injured by the failure of their attempt, they seek sympathy back in friendlier climes.

[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Is that Don Quixote charging a windmill? If not for me reading little about Major Sergius Saranoff being compared to Don Quixote in Arms and the Man, I would've never known...

[–] cdombroski@programming.dev 4 points 3 hours ago

That is indeed Don Quixote and I believe you'll find that he is tilting at that windmill

[–] radswid 12 points 6 hours ago

My guess: the mod is sittin there posting memes on his gentoo-machine and laughing his ass of, because someone's taking his community serious.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 18 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I don't understand why so many people take the existence of linuxsucks communities so personally, the reddit version has more linux users defending it than actual hate, but that one was more meant as a "legitimate grievances against linux" community as opposed to what the lemmy version seems to be.

Just block and ignore like anything else. Its okay if there are people that don't like the thing you like.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't take it personally, just confused and amused at the situation

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Kintarian@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago
[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 27 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Apparently it was against the rules of that community and I was banned.

Sounds like they've done you a favour. Now you don't have to see their random hater circlejerk community again.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

don't you have to block it back to not see it?

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

Oh, maybe. Is that how it works?

[–] communism@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I read it as a jokey community and maybe you took it too seriously. Regardless that's a kinda silly comment to leave. That's a community for, ironically or seriously, hating Linux, so obviously it's not in the spirit of the community to leave a serious comment defending Linux.

I see a lot of Windows hate on Lemmy. If someone made a post here complaining about how much they hate Windows, and a Windows fan replied explaining why Windows is so great, I would say it's kinda heavy-handed but not totally ridiculous for a mod to ban them, since a Linux community is probably not for this person.

The guy made 3+ pages of posts shitting on linux, all while nobody else posted and 95% of the posts were downvoted to shit. Nobody was laughing, the guy made real arguments, and genuinely seemed to have an issue with linux. I never detected any satire presonally.

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 7 points 7 hours ago

Deciding Linux isn't for you is one thing. Even deciding that you hate Linux is... Digestible. But what kind of internal self esteem and validation issues do you need to unironically participate in a community called "Linux sucks"?

Hating Linux is one thing. Putting in extra effort to justify to everyone that Linux is hate-able is a different kind of crazy.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 hours ago

Tech people are always sensitive and unfair. You should get used to it or start seriosly fighting them if you're not afraid of getting in a legal trouble. As someone already said, it's probably good that you got banned because the community could hurt you more. Trust me, you don't want to get banned on a community you've spent years and made friends on.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

So: you posted a serious contribution in an unserious community, and got treated unseriously. It's not very newsworthy.

As for that community's existence, why is that even up for discussion? As a Linux user I'm happy for people to say what they like about Linux. If the jokes are funny, all the better.

I use Ubuntu btw and it doesn't suck. Well, not that much.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think it's a joke community, it seems to just be about hating Linux and not allowing any Linux positivity or praise

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world -1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

And so what? Why are you so bothered by it? I'm a Linux user of 20 years and I couldn't give a fig that someone is running a forum called LinuxSucks which, unsurprisingly, contains little "positivity or praise" for Linux.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I mean... This is a site for posting things, and I posted a thing. Trust me, this isn't the highlight of my day or something that deeply bothers me

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago

Good to know.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Then why did you bother posting here complaining about it?

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

this is a website for posting things

Deep, complex reasons

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Even so, why post this and not any one of countless other things?

Like I feel that you're missing a clear sign here. Most people would roll their eyes and move on. This is quite possibly the most "leopards ate my face" post in this community and yet it's being upvoted because "hooray tribalism" over something as asinine as OS (really kernel) choice.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

Because they found it interesting and wanted to discuss it with people?

Just because it's low priority doesn't mean it lacks any interest, we can exist between extremes

Most people would roll their eyes and move on

Quite famously 1% of the community are posters, after all. Who the fuck cares what a normal person would post? OP wanted to

and yet it's being upvoted because "hooray tribalism" over something as asinine as OS (really kernel) choice.

Lol, it's being upvoted because most of us recognize the sub and it's pathetic mod and are laughing at being reminded of them, if the comments are anything to go by

[–] Kintarian@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if it's related but there was an annual symposium called "Linux Sucks". It was a gathering of mostly Linux developers. The idea was to find the ways Linux sucks and develop ideas to fix the suck.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Nah, this seems like a community to dunk on Linux

[–] Kintarian@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Nope, I just checked. Apparently, you can't say anything good about Linux. Seems like a useless waste of time but, whatever. If I got banned from that site I would consider it a blessing.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

As light rises, so does darkness to meet it