KDE Kicks Off November With More Fixes, Including More Plasma Wayland Work

[Morty]

This is not funny. In fact, this is clearly unacceptable even for a joke.
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I think ut was suite funny, and a apt reply to do blatant troll using personal attacks and all.

If the general view about privacy is anything close among the KDE developers (and why wouldn't it?), then I strongly recommend everyone to reconsider using it...

Obviusly it's not (your passiv aggressive trolling aside), they are strongly comitted to privacy. It has been one og their main focus tasks the last three years. https://phabricator.kde.org/T7050
So I'd say you should recommend everyone to consider using it.

[f0rmat]

You got me. I am paid hundred million dollars by the KDE e.V. every year. In exchange for this princely sum, I do all KDE development myself; I personally implemented KUserFeedback in a manner that is as intrusive and privacy-destroying as possible, and I made a fake GUI just to frustrate people like you. I spend all my time laughing about the kind of porn that our users like to watch. My secret goal is to control the entire world through spying on computer users. I started with a niche FOSS project whose source code is easily audited because I like a challenge. Alas, your expert detective work was too much for me, and you uncovered my nefarious scheme from your home country of Poland! Shall I continue?

Nate...many of us here really appreciate you and the KDE team dedication. Do not fall into the trap that these people set.

[bug77]

This is not funny. In fact, this is clearly unacceptable even for a joke.
If the general view about privacy is anything close among the KDE developers (and why wouldn't it?), then I strongly recommend everyone to reconsider using it...

I don't know, it's pretty acceptable to me.
On the other hand, assuming conduct of an entire team based on one statement (unofficial at that), isn't.

[Siuoq]

I personally implemented KUserFeedback in a manner that is as intrusive and privacy-destroying as possible, and I made a fake GUI just to frustrate people like you. I spend all my time laughing about the kind of porn that our users like to watch.

This is not funny. In fact, this is clearly unacceptable even for a joke.
If the general view about privacy is anything close among the KDE developers (and why wouldn't it?), then I strongly recommend everyone to reconsider using it...

[bug77]

However, if this is the community Michael wants to build around Phoronix, I may just decide to opt out of the forums going forward. I can just read the articles and pretend the comments don't exist.

I did precisely that for a couple of years. Either the forums cleaned up in the meantime or my crap tolerance went up, but now I can read the forums again.

[Morty]

The majority of traditional calendars start on Sunday, hence the defaults. This is configurable, even though there is no GUI for it yet :<

And more important, it follows your locale setting. Mine does it correctly for my country, and starts the week om monday.

[reba]

I know. It's been bad for a long time, but I feel like it's just been getting worse and worse lately. I can't even recall the last KDE, Gnome, X, Wayland, NVidia, Intel, or AMD thread that didn't get hijacked, and it's always by the same set of people.

If Michael wants to fix this, I'm happy to try and help out however i can.

However, if this is the community Michael wants to build around Phoronix, I may just decide to opt out of the forums going forward. I can just read the articles and pretend the comments don't exist.

I have debated with me several times already if I want to opt-in for the full, lifetime membership here on phoronix.

Alas, to be frank, I always got shy and backed away from that idea, jut because if the acceptance of trolling from Michael's side stays as it is today, I fear phoronix will be dead in a few months, drowned in shit because of the plenora of trolls that roam freely.
So while I enjoy the articles, while I am willing to give Michael something back in return for them I consider membership a bad deal for me because I think phoronix will soon degrade and die because of all the trolls here.

Prove me wrong or at least finally snap to action, then money will flow.

[smitty3268]

Trolls are tolerated here for significant periods of time. They have to work really hard for a ban.
Blocking users was broken for a while. It may still be, I'm not using that because if you block a user you still see messages quoting their posts and, imho, it makes the thread look even weirder.

I know. It's been bad for a long time, but I feel like it's just been getting worse and worse lately. I can't even recall the last KDE, Gnome, X, Wayland, NVidia, Intel, or AMD thread that didn't get hijacked, and it's always by the same set of people.

If Michael wants to fix this, I'm happy to try and help out however i can.

However, if this is the community Michael wants to build around Phoronix, I may just decide to opt out of the forums going forward. I can just read the articles and pretend the comments don't exist.

[bug77]

Michael, these forums are really starting to go down hill with all the trolls and nonsense posted in them.

What can we do to fix this?

Are you willing to add people to become mods? Can you at least update the forums to allow blocking users? Would it take a certain monetary amount in order to make that happen, because i think there are enough frustrated people here that we could make it happen.

Trolls are tolerated here for significant periods of time. They have to work really hard for a ban.
Blocking users was broken for a while. It may still be, I'm not using that because if you block a user you still see messages quoting their posts and, imho, it makes the thread look even weirder.

[Slartifartblast]

How amazingly everyone supports lies and spyware by Graham. Interesting circle coming from KDE e.v. How much are you paid to protect spyware? (Snip)

The only thing you have succeeded in doing here is making yourself look like a complete idiot who possibly requires professional help and I suspect there has been some sort of life event that has pushed you over the "psychological" edge. There are people out there that can help people like you, all you need to do is reach out.