!linuxsucks@lemmy.world mod "Lemmy.world admins want to empower brigading. Well, they’re not cutting me a paycheck, and I don’t see reddit making rash noob decisions. - r/linuxsucks101"

https://lemmy.world/post/24153212

Seems like he wants to redirect the community to Reddit? https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxsucks101/

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looks like my comment was removed.. but honestly, the funniest thing ive read today
i don't see reddit making rash noob decisions
hahahahahahah

make unpopular posts
ban people for disagreeing with them
people downvote your posts
get mad
Get used to it, bub.

brigading is such a weird complaint, "oh no people are engaging with my post, I actually wanted nobody to see it"
why would you be posting incendiary stuff on social media if you're not expecting people to have opinions
- "Nothing but echos in my chamber tyvm" - bellends, probably.
- brigading is such a weird complaint, “oh no people are engaging with my post, I actually wanted nobody to see it”
  In other situations, it is not a weird complain, because not all engagement is positive. For example organised and disruptive engagement is typically bad.
  However that engagement needs to be organised to be a brigade; you need to be able to point out where the brigaders are coming from, and why. That is simply not the case here, the mod is crying "waah brigade" when there's none in place.
  
  I agree, it does strikes me as something what needs to have some channel on a different platform (like a discord or other comm) to coordinate, but posting on a federated social media and being mad at negative replies from people seeing it in /all is silly.
  People will also go into comms and post provocative comments, get more of a response than expected, and spin their inbox blowing up as brigading for sympathy.

…sigh…
I really think he will fare better over there. Just wanted to remind anyone reading this that, just like removing hate speech is not censorship, down voting something you don't like is on itself not brigading. I honestly don't know what this person thought was going to happen, most of the active users on lemmy are nerds who know or are at least sympathetic with FOSS. You don't walk into a furry convention and start screaming slurs and mocking every attendant and expect everyone in there to love you. If anything, most people were actually respectful, and giving the benefit of the doubt, or just harmlessly ignoring the posts.
- I always thought it was a joke community. When a good joke got downvoted, I'd tell people to lighten up because it's a joke.
  
  That's the sad part, it's all genuinely candid. They do hate linux and linux users with all their might.
- Yeah brigading is an organized effort by definition. Maybe it did happen here I don’t know the situation but I’ve many times seen people whine about being brigaded when it was just unpopular to random disorganized groups of people.
  Now I tend to think people do downvote too much but that’s a separate issue.

The whole thing seems wild

Their posts would have taken off just fine if they simply posted highly specific linux distro problems.
The linux folks would come in and cannibalize immediately.
"REDHAT VIOLATING GPL. TYPICAL."
- They don't know Linux well enough to do that. They're essentially just Windows fanboys.

And nothing of value was lost.

Here's the LW announcement for context, and madthumbs' reply to it.
To keep it short LW implemented a new mod policy - now mods of LW communities cannot enforce specific narratives in their comms. With madthumbs complaining that this would be "brigading".
...I'm not too big of a fan of how LW admins run their instance. However: the rule in question is reasonable, and it has bloody nothing to do with brigades dammit.
And, really; so far I've thought that !linuxsucks was a troll community, since the mod in question is grasping at straws so bloody much at their arguments. But based on their reaction it is not, it borders disinformation already.

community rule 1: Post only about bans or other sanctions from mod(s).
a locked post in an already locked community is not power tripping. it’s not even the purpose of this community. block the community or report it if it violates TOS.
- It's an update about the power tripping which was reported a few days ago.
  @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com , I hope it works, if not feel ftto remove

He's not wrong, but he's also completely wrong. He's going to get brigaded on reddit as well. Sooner or later he's just going to need to learn to use his mod tools, specially if he wants to form a community around negativity.

He done fucked up running that mouth about Tux, imho

I don't know why the world admins continue tolerating that trolly mod.

Is this dingus the reason lemmy.world changed their rules??
- There have been a few communities banning a lot of people in the last few days, usually because those people would disagree/downvote
  !linuxsucks@lemmy.world
  !usauthoritarianism@lemmy.world
  vegan/carnivore communities
  There are dedicated threads in this community (!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com )
  So not sure which one triggered the whole thing
  
  That's funny, I pissed off a bunch of vegans in those threads because I pointed out that we have to kill and eat other life to stay alive and that doesn't necessarily make us better people because we pick and choose the "life" we think matters based on what looks and acts like us.
  They read it as an excuse to kill more instead of a reason to respect all life more, which I think is funny as fuck. I think it really shows where their minds are at, because they can't even philosophically engage with a different perspective that supports the same idea, that we should minimize suffering and all life is valuable, because they immediately view it as an excuse to kill more.
  
  Hey, that's awesome.
  Seriously. I was saying somewhere else that it would be nice if we had the specific examples of what communities were "abusing their mod powers," to help figure out whether this is a good policy or a horrifying policy. These are exactly the type of one-viewpoint communities that I really don't think need to exist on Lemmy.
  Moderators have the power to enforce only one viewpoint within their communities, in the software. That doesn't mean that culturally, that should be an accepted thing to do. It should be met with the ridicule that it deserves, and if we're taking a step towards that, then hooray.
  Of course, none of this guarantees that this policy won't slippery-slope its way down into forcing moderators to allow trolls of the friendly-to-the-admins variety, but I am hopeful, I guess. Not hopeful enough to resubscribe to a bunch of lemmy.world stuff I've been happier being unsubscribed to, of late, but hopeful nonetheless.

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