https://lemmy.ml/post/13864821
I’d understand if they were a random user, but a mod should already have at least some understanding about a community’s topic.
But worse to me are their comments in that post calling the people responding “childish trolls in this community”. I do not think that this is appropriate for a moderator.
I didn’t bother responding to that post because i assumed it was a troll…
Open source doesn’t mean foss.
I think people being such zealots about getting paid is actually a huge problem with the open source community.
Giant corporations should absolutely pay to use these projects that are often labours of love done in spare time.
The purists and the zealots are the worst part of any community. If the real source (aka not obfuscated) is openly available with no access restrictions like “send me an email to get the source code”, then it’s opensource in my book. “Free” and “Libre” are just additional attributes for a subclass of opensource.
class Opensource {} interface IsFree {} interface IsLibre {} class FOSS extends Opensource implements IsFree {} class FLOSS extends Opensource implements IsFree, IsLibre {}It’s really simple.
I don’t mind moderators having their ideas or even ranting or even blowing off some steam in the thread they make/parecipate in.
Their moderating job is to avoid the community being drowned in spam/scam etc. and as far as I can see there are few to no spam posts in !opensource@lemmy.ml. In that particular thread they went wild but as far as I can see did not abuse their mod powers.
tl;dr: judge the moderator as the moderator, and the user as a user. I didn’t particularly like that thread too, but from moderating POV, I haven’t yet seem something by haui I disagree with.
People are allowed to make mistakes every now and then. I would draw the line at open mod abuse such as using their rank to intimidate or just flat out removing people who they disagree with. Still a pretty crappy showing that I hope they grow from, but like, give them that chance.
What the hell? This was all reasonable stuff to discuss in newsgroups thirty years ago and every time the equivalent of xz happened but somehow now it indicates someone doesn’t understand open source?
And before someone makes the absurd claim that the limits and constraints of open source were settled back then, a state funded targeted attack on an open source project is as good a catalyst as any to uhh… revisit the priors that the “community” holds dear.
I swear to god you can take the redditors out of Reddit but you can’t take the Reddit out of the redditors.
Thanks. They are no longer a mod of this community. (I wrote this comment to them and they did not reply.)
Moderators deal with spam, hate speech and questionable content, so there’s nothing wrong with it. From what I understand, the mod is trying to understand OSS, just like the rest of us. And that’s okay. About the mod’s unruly behaviour, that is really not a good looking for them.
I personally want mods that are a part of the community that they moderate. This is like the Lemmy equivalent of a city cop that lives in the suburbs.
