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First of all, this post is my distaste about some unfriendly people and I don't know under which umbrella should I put them, either "IRC", "free software", "GNU/Linux" can be all wrong because I cannot accuse all people in those categories are unfriendly, but inherently some of them, who belong to those categories, are really unfriendly from my encounter with them. So I pick "IRC" not because it's best represents what I am saying, just because I don't have any better term, but it actually means **some IRC communities** and **some people** in those communities.
I am not talking about usage of IRC, which I feel comfortable to use. I am saying that I have zero good exerience with people in #linux and #bash at Libera and any related rooms in that circle. After all I don't know the purpose of of those rooms, which claim to be the place where people can seek help, are full of people who only do three things:
1. Express profound hate toward people coming from Matrix.
2. Spit out cool plot lines that is not helpful and make them an edgy nerd.
3. Tell people go to fucking read the man page.
I mean, if anything I can get when I get there is to suffer from their burn out and getting lectured by angry people, I have three questions:
1. Are those people need some help? It seem all of them are burnt out and hate are tolerated there. There are like pack of wolf telling me "fuck you" just because I use Matrix and mods are allowing it.
2. Do I deserve that? After a few tries I decided to talk to mostly the man page and StackOverflow instead of visiting an IRC channel, because at least man page don't insult me and leave me traumas.
3. If they can help people, or actually be able to tell something helpful, then make a help channel, instead of spit out unhelpful bullshit like "Don't!", "Maybe you need to read it forth and not back", etc, and divert the problem from the origin by starting to give long lectures on terms in the question with more jargons, which just prove they also have no idea how to solve the actual troubles but to cast their anger on people they deem stupid.
I don't really want to accuse all of them, but I can't help but feel like those rooms are an echo chamber of bandits who only wait for the prey to appear and insult them to enjoy a little superiority online. Who are they mostly? Edgy teens or grumpy incels in the corner? Their lectures and cool plot lines are not helpful at all.
This is not true for some smaller IRC rooms for some Linux distros and Unix(-like), which I now get most of the answer for my questions. What is the reason for this distinction? I don't know. It seems in the IRC world, most people choose to fake their appearance to appear as a friendly good guys in smaller room, but show their true predatory self in larger rooms. I bet if those people can read this post, they will allege me as a crying snowflake after getting beaten by asking stupid questions, like a true Kiwifarm veteran.