Phoronix forums have got to be the most hateful threads I have come across in the Linux community. It’s sad because the articles really helped me get into and understand the ecosystem
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this made me realize I should probably stop supporting a forum where anti-“woke” trolls are allowed. hopefully there’s a feedback forum when I unsubscribe
The Phoronix comment section has always been kinda shit. Maybe one in every thousand posts will contain anything of value (in most cases a comment by a developer telling the peanut gallery why they’re wrong).
I actually went to read older posts one day. They are actually much better compared to the more recent posts. Now it’s just trolls and shitposting.
LWN is where it’s at for Linux discussion.
Maybe my memory is just warped. How far back did you have to go?
10 years ago you had AMD lead engineers following up on threads.
Wow, you’re right. I can’t believe I forgot about that era, when you could expect to see John Bridgman providing insight in every thread under AMDGPU news.
Yeah dont read their comments.
I have them on my RSS because is a nice feed of news even if he does some clickbaity titles but the community has zero moderation.
Like, it’s not just rude technical arguments, but also a lot of political and personal insults.
I don’t have the energy for it.
I took them off my list once I realized many of their articles were treating rumor as fact. It would get really annoying when I tried to use the knowledge to do something only to learn the thing they said was “added to the linux kernel” was really just a patch posted to the mailing list that was being discussed.
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Ah. Okay. It took me a moment to get this person’s perspective on this. They’re a non-US citizen who’s asserting that this person’s ‘wokism’ (i.e. nont being a prick) is hypocritical because they didn’t voice their concerns over the exile of Russian devs from the Linux Kernel. Isn’t that kind of a mix of a straw man (not clear what this ‘woke’ person’s views are on that; troll makes assertions on what the ‘woke’ person didn’t say) and an ad hominem (this ‘woke’ didn’t argue against anti-Russian sentiment, therefore their arguments for equality are invalid).
I feel like I’ve wasted my time considering what this clown had to say.
As long as Phoronix doesn’t ban their longstanding infamous trolls they can kiss my ass
AdBlock and remove it from your life
This is all entirely Michael’s fault because he refuses to have anything resembling of a moderation.
Use adblockers. Never give him any of your precious money. He doesn’t deserve a single penny of it.
Edit: Fun fact: Karol also stopped visiting Phoronix forums a fair bit of time ago. GEE, I wonder what caused it to happen?
Edit 2: That particular forum post is now loginwalled LMFAO
Yeah I actually am slowly realizing that I agree with that. Lots of bigots in Phoronix comment sections… and that doesn’t even include the obviously psychotic rants, its just the ones that unashamedly shit on DEI all the fucking time
I feel like as long as there is money to be gained from it (be it via clicks or whatever), these people will stay.
So you gotta, in video game terms, “hit the boss on its weakpoint”.
What also grinds my gears is that one guy in there who ban evaded twice, everyone else knows who they are, yet they still remain on the forums to this day. If that doesn’t tell anybody that that site has a serious moderation problem, I don’t know what will.
It’s the Nazi bar effect
One thing a person learns quickly is to never ever under no circumsision open the comments on phoronix articles. Never. Even if you see a thing with lots of comments and you think “maybe there’s some good stuff this time there”, nope the fuck out.
under no circumsision
I appreciate that Circumcision is misspelled so you had to actually go out of your way on that one
What’s going on with all this maintainers why they are so mass leaving, it was fine until recent martin shit behavior
Have you read the LKML thread where the Rust people are called “Cancer”, then slapped with “You are the problem” to end up with “we are the Thin Blue Line”? Herbst is right, it is sickening.
And what “line” is that? The last line against… Innovation? Just Stuff Moving Forward Like It Does Without Regards For Your Fragile Ego? The Dinosaurs Extinction?
Isn’t “thin blue line” one of these pro-cop phrases that resurfaced in reaction to BLM? If so, I think fascism might be a part of the problem.
Yes. Calling this image today is super-loaded in every way: racism, white supremacy, fascism, it’s all there from BLM to the Jan 6 Insurrection.
