• bamboo@lemm.ee
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    The phoronix forums are insanely toxic. Everything is bad. Gnome = kid’s toy. systemd = written by Satan himself. Every programming language = too slow. Anything vaguely interested in fostering a diversity, equity, and inclusion = true colors come out in full force.

    It’s so toxic yet I subject myself to it every now and again. There’s absolutely no moderation going on and it shows.

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        It’s super confusing, like I feel many commenters there live in a different universe. They talk about how Wayland is a failure that has failed to get off the ground, while it’s the default in most of the major distros at this point.

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          It’s really good so long as you aren’t trying to use it with Nvidia especially for gaming in my experience

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      There is some, but unless it gets really uncivilized no action really gets taken. a couple users have been banned

      IMO I prefer it that way myself though. you either learn something neat, or engage in a class shittery. lots of other more polite forums such as this if phoronix forums isn’t to taste

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        Interestingly, the guy who made the referenced post, ‘avis’, is allegedly the new name of ‘birdie’, a well-known troll on the forums who was banned a while back. Basically everyone there agrees that it’s him and no action is taken against this new account.

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          I don’t think there is any doubt that avis is artem lol his profile even says banned in it as a joke. as long as his behavior is better, which it has been even if only marginal, there won’t be an issue. even if he does nearly single handedly cause most of the 5+ page… debates

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      Once in a while I venture their forums as a morbid curiosity and it always delivers.

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      What part of any of those opinions is toxic? Lol. If your feelings get hurt because of your parasocialtechnological relationship with software you didn’t even write, take it up with your therapist.

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        Did you not see how that turned from a really inconsequential disagreement to something emotional and personal almost immediately?

        Sure, no single post was particularly toxic on its own. It’s the holy war tenor of discussions on Phoronix that all but guarantees that every discussion ends up as a flame war.

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        Anything vaguely interested in fostering a diversity, equity, and inclusion = true colors come out in full force.

        if you don’t understand how this is toxic then you are dumb as dogshit