Is there any chance Michael or any of the moderators (are there any?) could take a more proactive approach to weeding out the trolls and tiresome flamewars? There's really not much reason to even read the comments anymore. I find myself lurking Google+ or developer blogs if I'm wanting to learn more about something since they rarely come by here.
Sometimes developers would make a comment that was interesting enough to be posted on the frontpage of Phoronix. That *rarely* happens anymore. Comments now are mostly empty or 10+ pages of flamefest.
I'm not sure exactly what the solution is, simply swinging the banhammer at anyone that prefers software $x over $y probably is a bit too heavy handed. But something needs to be done before the conversation here becomes worse than Slashdot.
And in case anyone wants to bring up the "ignore" feature, that doesn't work if someone derails an entire thread. Ignoring also doesn't fix the problem of having a dozen crappy people drive away all the developers that might otherwise post here.
Sometimes developers would make a comment that was interesting enough to be posted on the frontpage of Phoronix. That *rarely* happens anymore. Comments now are mostly empty or 10+ pages of flamefest.
I'm not sure exactly what the solution is, simply swinging the banhammer at anyone that prefers software $x over $y probably is a bit too heavy handed. But something needs to be done before the conversation here becomes worse than Slashdot.
And in case anyone wants to bring up the "ignore" feature, that doesn't work if someone derails an entire thread. Ignoring also doesn't fix the problem of having a dozen crappy people drive away all the developers that might otherwise post here.
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