I was not expecting them to respond but I was not expecting my response to be deleted immediately. I was hoping for my response to be available for others to see so they could make an informed decision.

Yeah it’s frustrating because madthumbs (and you too) seem to know what they’re talking about to someone like me who is not an expert, but if madthumbs is not going to allow good-faith discussion, newbies who might consider Linux will only get one side of the story.

Linux is not perfect but the contributors are always trying to make it better and that perspective will always be missing from linuxsucks@lemmy.world.

I propose a new community called linuxsuckssucks@lemmy.world that just copy/pastes the posts from linuxsucks@lemmy.world and allows free discussion.

Agree with you 100%. After posting I read the sidebar and the rules make it very clear that it’s their fiefdom to run as they please and they don’t tolerate good-faith discussion. Such is the freedom of the fediverse. I don’t agree with their way of doing things but I respect that they are free to do so.

Still gonna block linuxsucks@lemmy.world and recommend everyone else do the same.

Semi-related: I wonder if it would be worthwhile to create a list of communities that most newbies to the fediverse should block from the get-go. Like a sort of a “there be dragons” list of places that most reasonable people would probably want to avoid.

I’m getting Portal test chamber exit vibes.