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I've been avoiding linux groups in general for the last 20 years because every time I dip in (slashdot, digg, reddit) I wind up asking a legitimate question I get hammered by someone who thinks they are better than everyone else. My last instance was trying to set options in grub or from the console to change the default CLI resolution -- the post was taken over by a mod who didn't even seem to understand what I was asking, and spent his time answering every post by berating me for having the gall for connecting a monitor to a server, because "a real server would never have any kind of display device connected to it." I finally found out why I wasn't getting any replies from the people that had tried to help, someone told me later the mod must have shadow-banned me from the group. That person had logged in under their mod account and noticed all my unanswered replies in the post which they hadn't been able to see under a regular account.
The linux groups here on Lemmy are my first positive experience with any linux groups, and I really hope it stays that way.
Ok but that reddit mod (it was /r/Linux right ? ) was eventually booted for being an utter arse and I'm 98% sure he didnt run Arch (he had a foss purism thing going and iirc was on debian)
I mean toxicity at reddit is why most of us are now on lemmy right ?
Yes that particular mod was on reddit, but it's been so many years ago that I have no idea who it was. This was probably within a year of the migration from Digg so it's been awhile. I just hadn't found any need to try again after seeing the same asinine entitlement on all three sites.