The person I was responding to was suggesting that maybe this happened because the moderator was frustrated with a type of trolling (sealioning) so they were unable to differentiate between the trolls and people asking legitimate questions.

If a person is so burned out on moderation that they are making kneejerk decisions resulting in legitimate users being banned then they shouldn’t be moderating.

Moderators are not the community, they’re volunteers who help maintain the community. But, as the cliche goes, with great power comes great responsibility.

If they’re unable to function as a moderator and are banning community members then they can be more damaging to a community than all of the trolls and bad faith commenters combined.

Moderators are not the kings of a community, they are the janitors. This isn’t an insult, I’m an Internet janitor myself. Just because you have the power to break things and, socially, hurt people doesn’t mean that it acceptable to do so arbitrarily.

Expecting moderators to not abuse their powers for personal reasons will not result in the end of a community. That’s just nonsense.

For a random person, taking out your personal frustrations on random members of a community makes you an asshole.

Using moderator powers to take out your personal frustrations on random members of a community makes you unfit to be a moderator.

Your actions don’t suddenly become beyond reproach just because you clicked the “Create a community” button.

If that is the case then they shouldn’t be a moderator any more.

Everyone gets frustrated at their job, but it isn’t acceptable for a person to use the powers of their job for personal reasons. For example, I have access to financial software that handles tens of millions of dollars of client funds. I have the ability to lock an account and initiate a fraud investigation. However, if I chose to do that because a client was annoying and made me angry then I’d be quickly out of a job.

A moderator is responsible for ensuring a community is run well and they are given broad power to do so. Any moderator that uses those power to vent personal frustrations should not be trusted with those powers anymore.

No thanks. Anything that requires that much work to bake is not appealing to me.

Sheesh, we went from .129 to .189 and I got rooftop solar in protest (which is only going to burn my own house down).

Rooftop solar: win uptime contests guilt-free

They’re likely using a gaming distro that has those settings enabled by default.

It isn’t perfectly seamless but enabling Steam Play or changing proton versions isn’t any more of an advanced task than verifying game files (something that Windows users are asked to do the moment that they have a problem).

It has come a long way from the days of manually creating wine environments and writing custom launch files.

If you can install Skyrim or Minecraft mods (not using Steam Workshop) then you’re sophisticated enough to game on gaming distros like Pop and Bazzite.

If you can use cheat engine without a guide and write your own mods then you’re ready for Arch.

I mean, I was able to figure out how MS-DOS worked as a child just be flailing on the keyboard and reading the errors. It was “easy” because now I know it while Macintoshes may as well have been alien technology. A “mouse”?, moving windows?, you have to find programs and click on them instead of just typing?

You’re just used to Windows annoyances and not used to Linux annoyances, that’s all.

For example:

Installing and updating a program on Windows is a horror show compared to using a package manager. It expects average users to find, download and run executable files from the Internet and conditions them to approve elevation for anything that asks.

If Windows breaks, how do you troubleshoot it? Maybe Google knows, maybe rebooting fixes it, if not then possibly re-installing the entire OS. It’s so bad that if you work with Windows clients you probably already have an image of a Windows install because troubleshooting is so much of a pain it’s easier to just completely re-image the machine.

Don’t even get me started on how often Microsoft changes the layout of administration tools and system menus or their tendency to change the name of various system components for no logical reason.

I don’t think Linux is for everyone, but only because most everyone already has years of Windows experience and forgets all of the frustration and learning.

If you used Linux for just as long as you’ve used Windows, then editing fstab would seem as trivial a task as pinning an item to the start bar taskbar, or launching a program starting an app from the system tray notification area system tray.

And the fun trivia game: “Is that incoming or outgoing munitions?”

You’re right, there’s nothing that you can do but give in to the ghouls and take our allotted job, then spend our free time bitterly slinging shit at people who don’t follow in our rut.

There’s no change possible and anyone who pretends otherwise should be boo’d out of the conversation so we can all return to our miserable lives supporting the corporate boot with our collective necks.

How silly of me for aspiring to more. Thank you, wise young adult, for sharing the wisdom of your many hours looking at an-cap memes. I shall return to my spatula and mop, lest I upset the rest of the cattle.

Rounded corners and no border on floating windows has inspired many hate crimes

Having to support your argument with facts and reasoning is a well known leftist plot to undermine my feeling-based reality.

I’m in the “hmmm, I bet I could connect that appliance’s sensors and power to a Raspberry pi and get telemetry and automate it with Home Assistant, something something local Deepseek” stage.

Half the electronics in my house have little parasitic RPi4s reaching into their guts.

Luckily I live in a rural area so I have all of the wifi channels to myself…

I can use gamescope once every time I update and then it fails every subsequent launch.

I just want to game in HDR, smh

They say DEI because they can’t use racist or sexist slurs. It’s a blatant dog whistle and everyone knows what they mean.

It never was free thinking.

It styled itself in that way to capture the upper-middle class market segment of people who wanted to use technology but couldn’t be bothered to learn how

Like every tech company, they sell you the ability to access the fruits of technology in exchange for your privacy and, in doing so, ensure you never have the motivation to learn how to do it yourself.

Want to watch a movie? Don’t worry about learning about media files, players, codecs, etc. Just install this spyware on your phone and pay us $9 $12 $15 $19.99/mo and you’ll never have to learn.

You’re already on Lemmy, so most of you understand the stakes of signing up for corporate mediated technology. Just don’t use their products.

And the United States

NSYNC is also released candidate

e: NTSYNC, not the 90s boy band…

Stop, you’re hurting my feelings.