V or: How I learned even open-source communities can operate as fascist regimes

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Thank you for describing this from your side, it means a lot to me. I will leave here a link [1] to a my look at V from the technical side, but at the end there is also something about the community and this situation.

[1]: https://n-skvortsov-1997.github.io/reviews/

I started reading this and was reminded of Bruce Willis in one of the 'Die Hard' sequels where he is standing naked in a bad neighbourhood covered by a sign full of racist comments.

I can't see this having a good uneventful reception.

It's hard to describe what I recognize as totalitarian community without making comparison to actual historial events that mirror what I experienced. I never stated anyone is racist or that they inflicted physical violence on anyone.

I have however removed potentially offensive/misinterpretable phrasings in the article.

I'm just trying to inform people of what goes on with this language before they waste their time on it, or end up in the same situation of the user who as banned for no reason; if they care about how the "community" there operates.

I can't waste any more energy defending literary prose or anything to do with this situation, but it's posted here for historical reference.

> People continued their conversations as if they didn't just witness a Gestapo officer murder a jewish child and drag their corpse into the nearest ditch.

Unless you're literally discussing an agent of a fascist, genocidal regime murdering a child and disposing of their corpse , this kind of language is merely in bad taste and makes it easy to ignore any valid points you might have.

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