• 4ffy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This might be the first time I’ve ever seen something productive happen in the Phoronix forums. I love that place. Go to any topic with more than about a dozen posts and it’s almost guaranteed to be a flame war. Genuinely one of the funniest places on the Internet.

    Check out this one. It took like three posts!

    • Backslash@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Especially when the original article is about anything related to Rust. An hour after the article is live you’ll have 50 posts arguing and trolling like there’s nothing more important in the whole wide world. So entertaining!

    • bamboo@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      The phoronix forums are insanely toxic. Everything is bad. Gnome = kid’s toy. systemd = written by Satan himself. Every programming language = too slow. Anything vaguely interested in fostering a diversity, equity, and inclusion = true colors come out in full force.

      It’s so toxic yet I subject myself to it every now and again. There’s absolutely no moderation going on and it shows.

      • drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        There is some, but unless it gets really uncivilized no action really gets taken. a couple users have been banned

        IMO I prefer it that way myself though. you either learn something neat, or engage in a class shittery. lots of other more polite forums such as this if phoronix forums isn’t to taste

        • Backslash@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          Interestingly, the guy who made the referenced post, ‘avis’, is allegedly the new name of ‘birdie’, a well-known troll on the forums who was banned a while back. Basically everyone there agrees that it’s him and no action is taken against this new account.

  • PoorlyWrittenPapyrus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    NVIDIA rep created an account to make this post

    AMD rep was already an active member of the community

    Unsurprising, yet it still speaks volumes.