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What is happening in r/CentOS and why /u/redundantly should not be a moderator

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  1. Wes
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    Reddit admins don't intervene in these cases. It's a shame when bad moderators tank their communities like this, but the current system is that it's their community to tank. Nothing you can do but...

    However, if you know how to contact Reddit staff to raise this issue, I would gladly appreciate it. Thank you.

    Reddit admins don't intervene in these cases. It's a shame when bad moderators tank their communities like this, but the current system is that it's their community to tank. Nothing you can do but try to promote an alterative subreddit.

    Thankfully there are a large number of Linux subreddits, and the issue is being discussed elsewhere.

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    knocklessmonster
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    Toxic geeks? Ya don't say! I don't even keep an eye on this stuff intentionally, but the two worst spaces I've seen were gaming and Linux, and I'm not surprised at the amount of vitriol...

    Toxic geeks? Ya don't say! I don't even keep an eye on this stuff intentionally, but the two worst spaces I've seen were gaming and Linux, and I'm not surprised at the amount of vitriol surrounding this issue. Regardless of your opinion on whether CentOS should be free not be what it was, that mod's way out of line.

    I would also contend that CentOS/Red Hat made a horrible decision and deserve to be lambasted for it, and I simply haven't seen a good-faith argument that CentOS was killed for a good reason, which makes already bad actions like that moderator's against critics much worse.

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      lionirdeadman
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      I agree there are some very bad places in gaming and Linux but I'm not sure I'd make the generalization? Maybe I'm too sheltered in my own places to realize how widespread it is but I feel like...

      I agree there are some very bad places in gaming and Linux but I'm not sure I'd make the generalization? Maybe I'm too sheltered in my own places to realize how widespread it is but I feel like there's always toxic sub-communities in anything.

      Anyways, from what I've heard, the decision to kill CentOS 8 was done very quickly but they plan to have solutions... later which well, uh, kinda screw people a lot and they don't really wanna wait and pray for those solutions which have not been announce.

      Does Red Hat deserve the vitriol? Well, honestly, I'm not sure. I've heard the intention with the announcement was being quick to say what was happening but well, they should've waited to announce the solutions they want to give at the same time.

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        knocklessmonster
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        Or you just keep your head down and avoid it all somehow. Everywhere I've been concerning Linux generally had a group of really bad players. They weren't the majority or anything, but when...

        Maybe I'm too sheltered

        Or you just keep your head down and avoid it all somehow. Everywhere I've been concerning Linux generally had a group of really bad players. They weren't the majority or anything, but when something at all controversial happened they'd start yelling.

        Does Red Hat deserve the vitriol?

        I didn't say they deserve vitriol, but I'd say you're entitled to some swearing when your cheap, community supported production server was given an early death sentence, giving you a year and two weeks to figure out what you're going to do. Particularly in the hours before Rocky emerged.

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        1. lionirdeadman
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          I don't stay in communities which accept those kinds of people and avoid them like the plague so that could certainly be why. Well, it's free, not just cheap and AFAIK CentOS at this point is...

          Everywhere I've been concerning Linux generally had a group of really bad players.

          I don't stay in communities which accept those kinds of people and avoid them like the plague so that could certainly be why.

          when your cheap, community supported production server

          Well, it's free, not just cheap and AFAIK CentOS at this point is mostly Red Hat staff working on it since it was acquired by them in 2014. Although, I could be wrong.

          Particularly in the hours before Rocky emerged.

          Rocky and others were just responses to the announcement more than planned out projects AFAIK.

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