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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 91 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The comments under the article are a special kind of braindead.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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"...

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 19 points 3 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.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] GeneralInterest@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day 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.

[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 4 points 2 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.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Bcachefs sucks because I use ext4"

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 45 points 3 days ago

Yeah. Why is everyone saying this is removing their contribution credits? It's just a list of active maintainers...

[–] custard_swollower@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is not an unusual comment section on Phoronix, to put it mildly.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

That's a fair point. I rarely read comments on news articles, but morbid curiosity overpowered my self-preservation instinct.