There are plenty of responses from people trying to help.
If the OP isn't willing to try any steps or provide feedback to the people who offered suggestions that's on them.
On the other hand, you're engaging in exactly the kind of zero effort flame posts that you're also complaining about. It is hypocritical to complain about toxic Linux communities while being part of the toxicity.
I grew up in the age of Internet forums, in the ancient days of the late '90s-early-00's before the (Eternal September) Smartphone dumped every human being onto the landscape.
Having small communities is so much better. I often hear people complain that Lemmy isn't big because there are not communities with 3 million people like there are some subreddits. Much of the reason that Reddit is shit is because of how big it is.
On the old Internet, you could know the people who were part of the community. I have old friends, that I've known for 20+ years, that I met playing MUDs on BBSs. Now, I couldn't tell you the name of a single person that I've ever interacted with on social media in the past year.
Digg and Reddit came on the scene and pulled a huge crowd because we didn't have The Algorithm to recommend content and these link aggregation sites were the first time people got a taste of that kind of 'See all of the newest things from every corner of the Internet in a single place, curated by a process that produces good quality results' that we now just expect from recommendation algorithms.
The old communities were essentially starved of population. Nobody wants to take the social effort required to become part of a community when they can just scroll Reddit mindlessly.
There's very few people that even had a chance to experience the magic of spontaneous communities full of people working together.
If you still want a taste, check out the Something Awful forums.
The barrier to entry is higher: you have to learn the rules (read the rules), the social norms and there is a $10 one-time fee (so getting banned has some sting to it, read the rules).
In exchange you get an actual community of people. Many of the people posting there (or, in the various Discords now because that's a thing) have been on SA since they were edgy teenagers and are now professionals with careers. That isn't to say that there are not trolls and assholes, those exist in any community, but there's a much higher ratio of good to bad posters.
One of the interesting decisions that they do is that rulebreaking posts are rarely ever deleted. If a person is probated (temp ban) or banned, their comment stays up with a "(User was Probated/Banned for this post)" edited into the post so you can see, and hopefully learn, from the bad behavior. In addition, there's a 'Wall of Shame' section where you can see everyone who's been actioned against, who the moderator was and the moderation reason.
I've always hated the fact that comments on Reddit just disappear. You can never see what a mod removed and there is no reason why it is removed. This allows all kinds of bad and manipulative behaviors to be done by people with moderation access.
I got into computers when I destroyed a Windows 3.11 install on a PC we'd been given.
Nobody wanted to use it without graphics. So I started playing with it and typing words into the MS DOS prompt and reading the output.
I found qbasic and the gorilla and snake games. Then a text editor and so I learned how to make batch files. Learned how to edit basic by trial and error so I could make the gorilla's bananas blow up the whole screen
Found some DOS games, like scorched earth and a copy of wing commander which led to me learning to hate DRM and also how to operate an unguarded photocopier at my school.
Fast forward 30 years and I've picked up a few more tricks
If he only had a hawk-sized watch, we wouldn't have this problem
You're confused. I said "this thread" and not "The OP".
If you read the comments, do you see a frank discussion of people attempting to locate a gender neutral term for a tech enthusiast or a bunch of people just riffing insulting terms?
Regardless, to address you specifically. You're trying to "win" an argument using rhetoric in place of reason. You're not winning the argument, you're just throwing a punch and declaring victory.
You win arguments by having better arguments, not by coming up with the best clever clapback so that you get more upvotes
This thread is basically "Please help me brainstorm pejoratives", a very toxic mindset to have.
(This is a bad decision, we should support Ukraine, fuck Trump. Genuflection complete)
For people who didn't read the article:
The clickbait headline is framing it as if there was a recent decision to specifically target Ukrainians. That is not the case.
This is from a January 20th executive order to the DHS directing that they end temporary humanitarian parole programs.
What the article points out is that this would impact Ukrainians too.
It's like writing a headline that Trump has decided to raise the cost of goods and services for Ukrainian refugees but the article talks about tariffs that will raise prices for everyone. It's not wrong, but it's still a misleading headline.
e: my apologies for my prior use of a non-animated gif, Eternity let us all down, smh my head
It's a religion
You can't expect Reddit moderators to have the bravery of a hawk
for no gain.
Nearly $3 billion USD flowed through the TRUMP cryptocoin rugpull, whoever owned initial coins made very, very large gains.
The $3 billion in quid buys a lot of anti-Ukraine pro quo
But, thanks to the Supreme Court, Trump could go on national TV and say he change US policy on Ukraine because he was bribed and he'd still be immune to any legal consequences (other than impeachment, but never anything criminal).
It wasn't that it wasn't ready, it just cost them $1m to hire a private contractor to unlock it.
A court ordered redesign of the password lock timeout would have been free.