• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    9 days 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.

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      9 days 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”…

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        8 days 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.

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        8 days 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.

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          7 days 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.

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      8 days 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.