• @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        1210 months ago

        That’s a fair point. I rarely read comments on news articles, but morbid curiosity overpowered my self-preservation instinct.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      7010 months ago

      Always is with Phoronix comments.

      You find everything there from “Gnome is satanist” all the way up to pro-genocide crap.

      I really don’t know what it is about the site that brings out the craziest souch.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        5810 months ago

        For half a second there, I was like “yeah, so glad Lemmy is more rational than that site”.

        Few comments later, folks be talking about “Ukranian Nazis”…

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            510 months ago

            I would wager that every country has far-right elements, including Russia.

            What Russia claims though is that the Ukrainian government is full of Nazis, which I don’t think is true.

            • Carnage Sleuth
              link
              fedilink
              English
              19 months ago

              The wager isn’t whether countries have “far-right elements”. The wager is which country has a government that openly venerates a man who slaughtered Jews and Poles for sport. Maybe someday you will understand what happened here.

        • Rentlar
          link
          fedilink
          12
          edit-2
          10 months ago

          Hahaha I saw the parent commentor of that chain notorious for getting into back and forth arguments, sometimes reasonable sometimes not, and I thought to myself, this is going to be fun. Then I recognized the username of that other .ml user as a known troll and I was like, yep now this is going to go way off the rails.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          25
          edit-2
          10 months ago

          You must have missed yesterday’s thread when news broke lol, .ml admins will be here shortly to teach us kremlin history.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          2110 months ago

          Hoo boy, you weren’t kidding. I find it amazing how quickly this went from “the kernel team is enforcing sanctions” to an an unfriendly abstract debate about the definition of liberalism. I shouldn’t, really, but I still am.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        410 months ago

        The absolute disregard of having any moderation is what does that. If there was any, there wouldn’t be the cases like having someone be there by their third account, after the first two got banned.

        Not to mention that controversy = angry people and trolls = more clicks = more ad revenue. I don’t think Michael wants to miss out on it.

    • Aatube
      link
      fedilink
      4710 months ago

      Yeah. Why is everyone saying this is removing their contribution credits? It’s just a list of active maintainers…