Will I be the next to be banned from this forum?

I had issues with some people in the pass and got warnings, but I won't speak about a person that can't defend themselves. If you got a personal issue PM and try to come up with a solution. Everyone can be annoying including myself at times, regardless of their tech savvy skills. If the major players are all banned or left for whatever reason, then the forum doesn't serve a purpose in such a sense.

All of you posting here about how bad it is what happened, free speech etcetera. Please read the forum rules, they are linked at the right of your page.
This forum is meant to be a friendly place where people come together to help one another. If you think the forum rules are not compatible with you, no one forces you to post here.
I have admin-ed IRC channels, let me say sometimes even solid contributors can get banned if they are anti-social, abusive and not listening to reason.

Originally Posted by orbea He is the author of sbbdep which is a helpful program for studying and tracking dependencies in Slackware. He also fixed two bugs for it very quickly after I reported it to him. I'm sad it turned out this way since he's obviously a smart person capable of contributing, but I also understand that his posting style was not really appreciable and he did not seem willing to listen to anyone asking him to stop. http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/system/sbbdep/

a4z said he left Slackware for good: https://lists.slackbuilds.org/piperm...er/022243.html. It's a shame.

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier Both a4z and Darth Vader have been banned forever, which I regret. If this trend continues, I will consider banning myself.

Having read many of a4z's and Darth Vader's posts, I find it not so hard to believe their behavior was going to get themselves banned eventually.
I highly doubt there is any sort of conspiracy, nor do have any reason to think this is going to be an ongoing trend.
That being said, both were entirely capable of being actually helpful at times. It is sad see them gone.

Originally Posted by dugan Darth_Vader did not contribute helpful information. He kept claiming that his AMD cards had screen corruption with Plasma 5. Googling for that problem showed that he was the only one reporting it, even though he claimed that the problem was common and easily reproducible. The most likely explanation is that he was lying.

The issues reported by Darth Vader about Plasma 5 with certain AMD graphics cards, happened also with my Radeon HD4350 until v5.13.x. And I remember certainly that he presented even screenshots about how those issues manifests.

However, and I suppose for fixing those issues, Darth Vader proposed (and was accepted) patches for xf86-video-ati and X.org.

Also made me to think the sudden frenzy xf86-video-ati development after Darth Vader identified it as a possible fault on Plasma 5. Considering that he's a former distribution maintainer, I do not exclude him to have some contacts in the developers world, and in a way or other he may be behind this certain "push" for this video driver.

He was even present multiple times in the ChangeLog, so I think is really sad to read that he did contributed no helpful information.

Originally Posted by 55020 Earlier this year I was banned for a month, for "Inappropriate Language" (in response to Vader). In that month, I learned something that maybe the LQ Staff didn't intend -- that the drama in this place isn't important. Just ask questions and give answers. Maybe share an opinion occasionally, but maybe it's counter-productive to keep pushing the same opinion again and again (which is what Vader and a4z had in common).

Yeah, that's the actual reason for the two bans. The LQ administration has made clear that posts in technical forums are supposed to remain "on-topic". Note how often the phrase "(off|on)-topic" shows up in pubic mod warnings.

There has been a sudden increase in AMD GPU quality in the drivers. The reason I have the demonic Ubuntu (Xubuntu) logo is that 4.14 will not boot into a graphical mode on my new Ryzen. Even with no mod setting, it wants 4.15 at least. Not exactly related to X but distros with a default 4.15 or higher also tend to have newer X. Yes, I could fiddle around and do some boot wizardry and use a non-systemd distro and make it work but just do not have the time presently.

Originally Posted by jakedp The last refuge of the anti-social and blunt, but brilliant mind is being overrun with [removed] snowflakes whose skin is thinner than paper and tears easier. It took steel to build what the over sensitive world enjoys and abuses while the greedy make all the money and give [removed] all back. [removed] em, let their computers break down and horde the tissue paper as they cry like babies.

Now here's an example of why it's often not a good idea to use four-letter words. The sentiment of this post is something I absolutely agree with. I am sick and tired of millennials and their social justice agenda. When I was at university back in the 1960s, we all believed in free speech. Now young people go to something called "uni" and believe in "safe spaces" and no-platforming.

But a lot of people reading the above post are not even going to check whether the argument makes sense. They are just going to see the F-bombs and not bother to look for anything else. Remember the old song?

Originally Posted by Cole Porter All the writers who once used better words Now only use four-letter words In their shows. Anything goes!

A few judicious edits to use "better words" would go a long way.

Originally Posted by hazel Now here's an example of why it's often not a good idea to use four-letter words. The sentiment of this post is something I absolutely agree with. I am sick and tired of millennials and their social justice agenda. When I was at university back in the 1960s, we all believed in free speech. Now young people go to something called "uni" and believe in "safe spaces" and no-platforming.

A privately owned forum is the wrong venue to argue free speech and this has nothing to do with age groups.

This is obligatory...

Rule 59: There are no real rules about posting. Rule 60: There are no real rules about moderating - enjoy your ban.

Originally Posted by hazel Now here's an example of why it's often not a good idea to use four-letter words. The sentiment of this post is something I absolutely agree with. I am sick and tired of millennials and their social justice agenda. When I was at university back in the 1960s, we all believed in free speech. Now young people go to something called "uni" and believe in "safe spaces" and no-platforming.

A privately owned forum is the wrong venue to argue free speech and this has nothing to do with age groups.

This is obligatory...

Rule 59: There are no real rules about posting. Rule 60: There are no real rules about moderating - enjoy your ban.

Originally Posted by hazel Now here's an example of why it's often not a good idea to use four-letter words. The sentiment of this post is something I absolutely agree with. I am sick and tired of millennials and their social justice agenda. When I was at university back in the 1960s, we all believed in free speech. Now young people go to something called "uni" and believe in "safe spaces" and no-platforming.

A privately owned forum is the wrong venue to argue free speech and this has nothing to do with age groups.

This is obligatory...

Rule 59: There are no real rules about posting. Rule 60: There are no real rules about moderating - enjoy your ban.

I see a4z said he has cancelled his subscriptions. Good way to lose revenue when everyone is banned or has left. Things like this will happen and will cause financial headaches.

Originally Posted by orbea A privately owned forum is the wrong venue to argue free speech and this has nothing to do with age groups. This is obligatory...

Rule 61: Triple post = instant ban

Originally Posted by PROBLEMCHYLD I see a4z said he has cancelled his subscriptions. Good way to lose revenue when everyone is banned or has left. Things like this will happen and will cause financial headaches.

Most of us cancelled our subscriptions months ago.

ICYMI!

Sensitive people shouldn't be on the internet. I have learned whether someone is rude or polite we can't change that fact. I learned to be rude or polite to others etc.. Two wrongs don't make it right but makes it even.

Originally Posted by PROBLEMCHYLD I see a4z said he has cancelled his subscriptions.

How could he still have had a subscription?

Originally Posted by hitest I suspect that the store was hit pretty hard yesterday and today with subscription cancellations. The Slackware store informed me that they've cancelled all subscriptions. I am looking forward to being able to help Mr. Volkerding. I really like Paypal.

Originally Posted by montagdude Rule 61: Triple post = instant ban

Lol, I'm not sure what happened here. I tried editing the duplicates and found the content changed in all three posts! I was able to reproduce this when I changed the content of the post back.