glunday

But by being a part of it at all you make it your responsibility, at least to some degree. You can be pretty hands off and let them govern themselves but by holding power you ultimately assume responsibility for them. If someone posted something on there they shouldn't have and it caused an issue even if it was ultimately removed then the company could be held responsible. If Google employees had an unofficial sub that the company knew about and had Mods on incase it got out of control and it came out that there was cyber bullying that caused someone to leave their job, or worse then even if the posts were eventually deleted and bans handed out it could be argued that Google would have been negligent by having control on the sub but not exercising it. On the other end of the spectrum if it came out that an unofficial Apple sub had any mods (let alone close to half) on the sub even if they were only there incase the sub got out of control and the moderation was strict and deleting posts of people with complaints or issues about Apple then most people would have a problem with that and by having any mods on there at all many people would feel that Apple would have a level responsibility for the silenced opinions and issues. Granted those are more extreme examples to prove a point but by having control at all you assume some level of responsibility, saying "but its unofficial" isn't a good enough excuse when you have power over it. Its not an issue to exist in this grey area MOST of the time; but ultimately you need to be ready for it to potentially bite you in the ass.

Plus to me it seems like a smarter plan to put in a bit of effort to build out a better, larger volunteer mod force for the sub that can better act pre-emptively in emergencies then just keeping LMG staff on it on standby. At that point you have taken up the roll of policing it to some extent, you have the negative perception of paid LMG staff being mods, and because its officially recognized you get the blowback publicly if they do something wrong; pretty much the worst points of everything. The middle ground where its at now seems like tenuis place to be if they go rouge and DOX someone or encourage people to bully them on twitter something, sure you have LMG staff on so they can stop that but how much of their time is spent watching for stuff like that? If they aren't watching for it but will just use it as a nuclear option once they find out about something happening then you still get all the blowback for the damage it would have already done, the internet wont give points for stopping a problem after it already happened. I think if its truly unofficial and they dont want it on them it needs to be divorced from LMG as a whole, if not then some guidance is kind of in order to keep it being a place that doesn't make them look bad. the Mod whos post we are having issue with says they are effectively solo running the sub due to inactive mods and is likely what lead to the problem in the first place, A good mod team would have talked something like that over and would either not done it at all or would have at least worded things better (to sound more like what the Mod on here thought their intention was which was not to stop the discussion but to put them in mega threads and not allow new posts to clog up the feed). I have no problem personally with specific topics that have largely run their course being relegated to a mega thread unless there's new info (with new posts being locked and pointed there, not deleted without anything really as to why or where to go if you want to talk about it) if thats what his true intention was. Its the deleting of posts and bans that I have an issue with.

I think my main problem now is that this feels like a have your cake and eat it to situation, the sub is 'officially recognized' while being unofficial and has alot of LMG staff mods but because its not an official platform for them people seem ready to just say nothing can be done, its not official and its Reddit what do you expect. We can try to change things and voice our opinions from within the sub but when we get banned for doing so the only recourse I can see is to come to here to spread awareness of what's going on, official or not because its been officially recognized and there is a large LMG presence there is some responsibility for it; Or it could be fully cut off if they really dont want to be responsible for it.

I also replied in the comments of the post Itself but as it discussed a lot of different things I thought it would be helpful to have a separate post, but I see how that could be seen as stiring the pot. Didn't even know there was a megathread on it as it's not on my feed at all so knowing that helps and could be communicated better. My main concern is the Naomie Wu part (not the topic itself but how it's being handled), I also could not find a megathread for that but kept finding posts that seemed to have new information (at least to me) and they kept being taken down. That seems more like an issue then wanting to limit new posts about a topic. locking topics and pointing to the megathread would be a better alternative to outright deleting posts. As far as LMG I didn't at any point think that they were or would condone silencing criticism at all, in fact from what I have seen it's been the opposite: that's part of why it seemed so importantant to share this with the rest of the LMG community to me because wether they had good intentions or not this gives a bad impression of LMG as a whole. Honestly I don't care about any of the banned issues at all, from what I have seen they seem solved to me. All I cared about was heavyhanded moderation that could ultimately end up hurting the community. I know it's not official over there but that sub reddit is a public unofficial face of sorts for LMG discussion and if it seems like criticism against Linus or LMG is being silenced (even if it's not and just seems like it is) then that can blowback on the rest of the community. Ultimately if it becomes a big enough problem Linus will probably just publicly pull support for the sub but that's definitely a nuclear scenario, I would rather the issue be nipped in the bud now and if posting it to the forum gets some extra visibility on the issue that's all I wanted.

I apologize if you did not intend your responses as negative but they read that way to me and I replied in kind; its already been a bit of a day and I have received alot of hateful messages outside of the forum when all I was trying to do was point what I saw as a worrying trend. I did not expect something to be fixed by posting here I just posted here to share information.

so your saying a community about LMG is not connected to another community about LMG? official or not the "officially recognized" part seems to actively connect it to the community as a whole to me.

You could just not comment on my post instead of trying to actively crap on me for posting my experience on a different platform actively connected to this community.

They are different platforms but there's probably plenty of overlap of people on both the sub and the forum. its a bit ignorant to think that both platforms are completely isolated when we are the same community underneath. I tried to keep issues with the sub on the sub but a ban makes it a bit difficult to do that. I dont expect posting here to go anywhere nor do I really care if it does but if I see part of our community as a whole going down a slippery slope then I want to share it; if its important to the community as a whole different platforms or not then the community will show it, im just posting what happened to me. And since I am seeing plenty of posts and comments on there about how people aren't happy with the new policy and I have seen things being removed where should we talk about this stuff if not for the forum? what happens to the sub not completely unrelated to the forum. If the sub turns into a place that reflects negatively on LMG then it hurts the community as a whole not just itself.

I didn't ask anyone to do anything about it, but when a sub starts going down the slippery slope of banning relevant topics and banning people that dont agree with that then you should let other people in the community know about it. So im letting the community know they can do with the information what they will. I posted because while its different venues we are still a part of the same overall community. Just sharing information. People can do whatever they want with it.

I made a post on R/LinusTechTips after reading the State of the Subreddit post, I thought it was very heavy handed to be banning topics that are directly relevant to LMG and a slippery slope; so I made a post to see how the community felt about it. Looks like thats enough to get my post deleted and banned. Guess the opinions of those that think its to heavy handed dont matter.

Have you tried removing's all drives except for this one and seeing if it can boot into the windows install on it? I have had windows act up previously when a drive had/has a windows install on it, I ended up removing all other drives, logging into the windows install on the drive that was acting up, removing anything unnecessary and shrinking the windows partition to be as small as possible then I made a new partition on the drive with the remaining space. Once I did that the drive was able to show up in my other windows install in disk manager and I could format it but I think I ended up reformatting it again using Linux since it still had windows recovery crap on it.

have to say some of my favorite content from yall is the moving vlog style stuff so that will be a treat if you decide to keep with that route.

thanks, thats what i was assuming. but you know what happens when you assume lol. mainly i was asking for a sanity check.

so im looking to get an M.2 SSD and i was looking for an NVME drive. what im confused about is on my motherboard it says in the user manual (Asus Z170 Sabertooth S) that its an M.2 x4 NGFF SSD slot type M that supports both SATA and PCIE modes, but i've never seen the term NGFF used before. as this is a big investment i wanted to know more. mainly 1. can i use an NVME SSD 2. will any slot M or M+B drive work? 3. any recomendations for a drive?

not totally sure what you mean by micro and touch pad. but if you mean touch pad as in button pad it has to be a touch screen, kinda defeats most of the cool factor to just have a number pad and no touch screen/GUI