Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction. I was able to dig a bit and I think I found it - it looks like they were being a bit of a pedantic asshole about some spelling/grammar thing, the moderator deleted their comment because… yes, it’s a pedantic spelling/grammar nitpick. Then that user threw a massive tantrum and started yelling mod abuse.

Honestly, it’s a real shame that Liam lost faith in Lemmy over something stupid like this. Yeah, there are downsides of a public mod log - really hateful vile shit will just persist in there forever when realistically it should be just wiped out entirely. I think overall it has more benefits than drawbacks, but I certainly wouldn’t say that being opposed to a public mod log is some sort of smoking gun evidence that he abused his mod powers.

So yeah, this one guy behaving like a self-centred jerk actively contributed towards pushing a well-known and prolific linux gaming journalist off the platform. Great stuff, love to see it.

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I’m interested to hear more. I’ve followed Liam’s work for almost a decade at this point and I haven’t ever seen or heard of him acting unprofessionally, but I’m quite new to Lemmy.

What abuse of their moderator powers? Is there a link to see the mod log somewhere? Sorry, I know I’m being a bit needy, but I’m not really sure what I’m doing.

but what if number isn’t an integer, or even a number at all? This code, and the improved code shared by the other user, could cause major problems under those conditions. Really, what you would want, is to validate that number is actually an integer before performing the modulo, and if it isn’t, you want to throw an exception, because something has gone wrong.

That’s exactly what that NPM module does. And this is why it’s not a bad thing to use packages/modules for even very simple tasks, because they help to prevent us from making silly mistakes.

photons have left the chat

looking forward to jill stein dramatically revealing that she was secretly evil all along! if you vote for kamala then you know that you’re voting for someone evil but with jill stein, she’s evil and she tried to cover it up! such a trickster.

nothing ever happens

but yeah, the story is a bit too perfect, it strains credulity a bit, but there’s nothing about it that is truly unbelievable

if you fucking leftists were smart you’d all agree with me, because i’m smart and i did a math that 99 is less than 100, that’s why im going to make the ethical choice, and vote for 99% hitler

Seriously I saw a comment the other day that was like, “Someone should explain utilitarianism to them”, like we all somehow discuss marxist theory without an understanding of baby’s first philosophical framework

This is a really comprehensive summary, thanks - I tell people I am a libertarian socialist when I don’t know if they’re cool enough to learn that I’m a anarcho-communist yet.

Yeah, this and “this is unrealistic, the world doesn’t just become a better place”. It’s a leftists cue that the other person is no longer capable of arguing based on the facts and evidence, and is just shutting down to protect themselves from cognitive dissonance. It is basically impossible to overcome.

If you don’t buy Honda because you support public transport, then you’re just buying Tesla. It’s simple ergonomics, sweaty.

Personally, I don’t really feel that scientology is particularly worse than other religions. So you could just say that Trump supporters are more religious than political, really. Though, I don’t think that’s unique to Trump supporters, really - modern politics really is a lot more like a sort of religious thing rather than about the actual policy for a lot of people.