I've had run-ins with Linuxsucks' owner and basically only poster over on linuxmemes. They're a troll, a contrarian, uninterested in any kind of honest or good-faith discussion, and an overall dickhead. The community is a one-man circlejerk.

You're right about needing counterpoints, but Linuxsucks ain't it.

I've actually been fairly fine in fuck cars, both Reddit and Lemmy editions. I actually like cars, well, some of them anyway.

I've done that in fuckcars and not gotten banned. A lot of the users can be rabid but the mods aren't quite vegan tier as far as I can tell.

I've suggested a rule in the past, but we don't have this rule now.

Community Manipulation

Communities should not be overly moderated in order to enforce a specific narrative. Respectful disagreement should be allowed in a smaller proportion to the established narrative.

i.e. A user should be able to (respectfully, infrequently) post/comment about a study showing marijuana is a gateway drug to !marijuana without moderation tools being used to censor that content.

There are times people wouldn't like it, but it'd fully solve this !linuxsucks issue.

The ironic part is that by creating this community the mod is actually working against his own movement because he's resorted to trolling and power-tripping, instead of a community to discuss interesting points. Meaning less people will ultimately be willing to take him seriously.

Agreed !unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone is a far superior community in so many ways, best part of all though, they're not tolerant of slur usage. Which is more than I can say about the one I mentioned in the main post unfortunately.

If you hang out in politics communities they are gonna be toxic. I don't think that's a fair characterisation of lemmy in general though tbh. There are plenty of wholesome communities.

Glad to hear they're gone

Yeah, it seems to have gotten way way worse since I made this post. Also he finally locked it because he couldn't censor people's comments fast enough and wasn't getting enough positive interaction for it to be worth it.

I ended up actually taking over his other community !linux_vs_windows@lemmy.world and the first thing I did was permaban madthumbs with content removal and the community posts shrank to almost nothing. Just goes to show how little actual people actually care about these communities. Yet some idiot tried to argue I'd somehow make them popular, which still hasn't happened.