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> We are all adults, we know what is and isn't generally acceptable on the internet. > I also, once upon a time, maintained some ports before getting banned fo

by seoaeu 5y ago

> We are all adults, we know what is and isn't generally acceptable on the internet. > I also, once upon a time, maintained some ports before getting banned for "conduct issues" shortly after John Marino left FreeBSD I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if you are getting banned for "conduct issues" perhaps you don't actually know what is and isn't acceptable.

bigbillheck 5y ago
He says elsewhere in that thread that he was a gamergate person, which checks out.
- matheusmoreira 5y ago
  Wasn't gamergate about ethics in video game journalism?
  - seoaeu 5y ago
    There's been plenty written about it elsewhere, but the short answer is that there was a lot more to it than that.
  - bigbillheck 5y ago
    Maybe for the first 30 seconds or so, but that got pivoted away from pretty quick.
davidgould 5y ago
In 1994 I got a new 486 computer to run a unix as I was using a mix of unixes at work. It was hard to choose technically between the various BSD and Linux disks from Walnut Creek CDrom. So I took a look into the mailing lists. On the BSD lists they were having some sort of fractious food-fight, if I remember about something like whether to ban people who ask dumb questions. On the linux list it was like "hey we got NCR 810 scsi working in 1.18". Since I had an NCR 810, and some dumb questions, Linux (slackware) was what I tried first. 27 years later OP's post and the reddit thread confirm it was the right choice.
- asveikau 5y ago
  You do you, but I've been using *BSDs for more than 3x the length of time as this reddit user and I don't find his post or comments to be very representative of my own experience. I don't think anyone should use this comment to confirm their life choices.
  - ksaj 5y ago
    > I don't think anyone should use this comment to confirm their life choices. Same goes for the post itself, actually. You'll find disagreeable people in every domain if that's what you're focused on. Likewise if it was really all that toxic, it wouldn't last. Painting everyone with the same dismal brush does a disservice to the awesome folks that are there.

by seoaeu 5y ago

bigbillheck 5y ago

He says elsewhere in that thread that he was a gamergate person, which checks out.

matheusmoreira 5y ago
Wasn't gamergate about ethics in video game journalism?
- seoaeu 5y ago
  There's been plenty written about it elsewhere, but the short answer is that there was a lot more to it than that.
- bigbillheck 5y ago
  Maybe for the first 30 seconds or so, but that got pivoted away from pretty quick.

davidgould 5y ago

In 1994 I got a new 486 computer to run a unix as I was using a mix of unixes at work. It was hard to choose technically between the various BSD and Linux disks from Walnut Creek CDrom. So I took a look into the mailing lists. On the BSD lists they were having some sort of fractious food-fight, if I remember about something like whether to ban people who ask dumb questions. On the linux list it was like "hey we got NCR 810 scsi working in 1.18". Since I had an NCR 810, and some dumb questions, Linux (slackware) was what I tried first. 27 years later OP's post and the reddit thread confirm it was the right choice.

asveikau 5y ago
You do you, but I've been using *BSDs for more than 3x the length of time as this reddit user and I don't find his post or comments to be very representative of my own experience. I don't think anyone should use this comment to confirm their life choices.
- ksaj 5y ago
  > I don't think anyone should use this comment to confirm their life choices. Same goes for the post itself, actually. You'll find disagreeable people in every domain if that's what you're focused on. Likewise if it was really all that toxic, it wouldn't last. Painting everyone with the same dismal brush does a disservice to the awesome folks that are there.