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 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.

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

I think that there are key differences between

• A community criticising something, backed up by reason and evidence. Even if it's something popular, doubly true if there's a circlejerk around that thing. This can and should exist.
• A community created to circlejerk against something, through insane troll "logic" and silencing any dissidence. This is fertile grounds for idiocy and misinformation, thus harmful for the society [I can go further on that if desired] and the Fediverse [ditto], and should not exist.

Sometimes the boundary between both is not clear - but this community, unless it's a troll comm, falls cleanly into the second case. Specially given how opaque the moderator is trying to be (check how none of the removals appear in the modlog).

Will you though? Dogpiled? Yes, that’s just the nature of Lemmy. Banned? I have not heard of this happening but maybe I’m just ignorant.

Edit: I realized after saying this that there are two fuckcars coms. The one on LW has banned like 3 people ever. The one on .ML has banned tons of people though it was hard to tell which ones were instance-wide bans since the admins love to do that over trivial BS. So depending on which com you might be right. But on LW community you can definitely go there and argue that cars are great and harmless as long as you’re nice about it. I personally think that’s healthy.

Oh, Hello voice of common sense. Been a while!

Going into subs about a specific topic to troll should get your shit removed.

I don't think it was that big a feat, he was banning people when the comments were too vague to tell if they were pro-linux or anti-linux. Really funny, and goes to show how insecure he is in his opinions.

By your logic it seems you believe this community has no merit and that moderator power tripping isn't a valid. You're entitled to your opinion but many people do indeed disagree with you on that. I'd suggest blocking this community because a good amount of the posts here center on the idea that community stewards can indeed abuse their power on an instance to either obscure information pertaining to the reasons they actioned someone, or that they are banning people and removing posts to avoid being banned themselves from the instance for Code of conduct infractions on their part.

If you see it you should post it here. Help bring attention to it, instead of just trying to accept it as normal. At the very least it helps people know to avoid those communities.

If you see it, feel free to report here in this community.

As others have said, if you don’t like it, block it.

I didn't say explicitly that I didn't like it or that people shouldn't use it, just that the main mod has been power-tripping and very likely is a troll. So if you want to hang out there that's fine. Though I wouldn't expect any kind of content diversity there. It's likely going to be just be the main mod making posts, which he might even give up on later. It's also very likely he'll ban you for a misunderstanding, since some of the people there were banned seemingly for nothing.