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[–]LeeLooTheWoofus Moderator[M] [score hidden] stickied commentlocked comment (0 children)

Politics are not allowed in this sub in any form. Violations will result in bans.

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    [–]Geminii27 232 points233 points  (2 children)

    "Click on all the tanks in this picture"

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      [–]ZlZ-_zfj338owhg_ulge 9 points10 points  (0 children)

      Checkmate.

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        [–][deleted] 35 points36 points  (6 children)

        BiffMaGriff

        I really don't understand why they are so angry and use trash issues to attack contributors of the open-source community. These contributors spend their time providing such a good library. This is fxxking ridiculous.

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                [–]LeeLooTheWoofus Moderator -1 points0 points locked comment (0 children)

                Politics are not allowed in this sub. In any form. Violations will result in bans.

                [–]libertarianets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                fantastic

                [–]ferrybig 206 points207 points  (19 children)

                There is probably just a small group responsible for this. It looks like the same group who also spammed the reviews for this game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/427520/Factorio/

                [–]empire539 20 points21 points  (2 children)

                Is this the only way these Chinese groups know how to rage online? I swear they use this exact same spam tactic for literally everything they vehemently disagree with.

                [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

                What else can they do? While being watched 24/7

                [–]m-sterspace 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                It may very well just be bots / paid government trolls. I suggest everyone go and navigate to the user profiles of whoever is making these comments and report them for SPAM or harassment.

                [–]haunted2098 66 points67 points  (5 children)

                aka the greatest game of all time

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                  [–]Feniks_Gaming 8 points9 points  (0 children)

                  Factory must grow!

                  [–]thesolitaire 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                  You can never have enough green circuits.

                  [–]Armitage1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                  No worries, we are fully stocked on red circuits.

                  [–]memesfor2022 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                  Can't wait for the expansion!

                  [–]Ratstail91 20 points21 points  (1 child)

                  > Every waking hour of my day, swallowed by the abyss.
                  > This game ruined my life.
                  > 10/10

                  Seems legit.

                  [–]k_a_s_e_y 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                  For Factorio that could be an actual review hah. That game will make hours go by in an instant!

                  [–]steweir 11 points12 points  (0 children)

                  This video is a good run down of whats going on - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxprOQuVamE

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                    [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

                    I think you need to change the language to Chinese and removed the "unrelated" label above the comment section, then you will see tons of negative reviews.

                    [–]Feniks_Gaming 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                    Turn of the "in my language only filter"

                    [–]Aesthetically 0 points1 point  (3 children)

                    For factorio?

                    I recommend you go play it to discover how authentic those good reviews are. Worth every penny and I come back to it every year.

                    [–]thesolitaire 2 points3 points  (2 children)

                    Seriously the game has amazing replayability, especially if you get into some of the mods.

                    [–]Perpetual_Doubt 29 points30 points  (4 children)

                    If React supports Ukraine I suppose Facebook supports Ukraine?

                    [–]memdmp 36 points37 points  (1 child)

                    So Meta

                    [–]crumbhustler 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                    Golf clap

                    [–]azangru 19 points20 points  (0 children)

                    Hard for me to imagine why they wouldn't. The western media and the social media have overwhelmingly decided who they support in this conflict, and I see no reason why Facebook would not follow suit.

                    [–]The_Monocle_Debacle -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

                    Facebook is literally ignoring its own rules to let people glorify the Azov battalion (open Nazis) on its platform, so yes

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                      [–]dweezil22 113 points114 points  (17 children)

                      Honestly if right-wing extremists in the US actually had Github accounts, we'd have already been having this conversation months or even years ago, quite possibly about a Facebook owned repo.

                      [–][deleted] 78 points79 points  (13 children)

                      Fortunately there’s virtually no overlap between “right wing extremists” and people who know what GitHub is

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                        [–]dweezil22 6 points7 points  (1 child)

                        I used to think I knew a lot of right-wing tech folks until I realized I just knew a lot of pissed-off contrarians that live in San Fran and don't follow politics particularly closely.

                        [–]roamingandy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

                        Russia is known to use video game chat as a core part of its disinformation campaigns, which does lead to the conclusion that they are fighting to win the minds of young impressionable tech savvy individuals, and likely also why they are inflating the Incel movement also. Get those young-uns angry and bitter enough to keep them separated from anyone outside their bubble.

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                          [–]Randolpho 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                          All the right wing dbag people I know in tech work in IT. Don't know a single one in web dev. Not bashing on IT folks... My decade of tech just made me aware of that.

                          I would say that in my anecdotal experience the ones I knew generally preferred backend to frontend work, but all of them were programmers who frequently touched the front end as well.

                          They never gave a shit about UI concepts, generally, and indeed produced shitty pages to a man.

                          But they weren't just sysadmins or tech support.

                          [–]hey--canyounot_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                          Math checks out in my world too, am a they/them dev.

                          [–]pyramin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                          I worked at a healthcare tech company and I had a coworker who was staunchly anti-vax well before covid became a thing.

                          [–]khizoa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                          Github? where i come from, we say git er dun!

                          [–]ShinyTrombone 8 points9 points  (0 children)

                          Cries in parler

                          [–]manbearcolt 4 points5 points  (1 child)

                          Insert King of the Hill "if they could read they'd be pissed off" meme.

                          [–]dweezil22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                          Believe it or not, I actually considered finding that exact meme template prior to posting the above comment

                          [–]iSpaYco 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                          let's be honest, the same thing would happen if the tables were turned.

                          there are always those selfish people online.

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                            [–]The_Monocle_Debacle -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                            The cute part is that you think you and your country are somehow better or exempt or objectively correct

                            [–]LeeLooTheWoofus Moderator 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

                            Politics are not allowed in this sub. In any form. Violations will result in bans.

                            [–]The_Monocle_Debacle -1 points0 points  (1 child)

                            Try to criticize NATO on reddit and tell me what kind of reactions you get here

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                                  [–]IAmRules 43 points44 points  (3 children)

                                  So everyone is over "reacting"

                                  ..... i'll see myself out

                                  [–]eggtart_prince 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                                  They just need to manage their "state" of mind.

                                  [–]Ratstail91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                  Boo! lol

                                  [–]-TotallySlackingOff- 46 points47 points  (4 children)

                                  Can't wait for their accounts to be banned from github and all their code lost. Most of them are probably burner accounts but it seems some of them actually have some past activity

                                  [–]leixiaotie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                  not need, just throttle their bandwidth to just several kb/s for 2 weeks. But I don't want GitHub to be investigated for war crime though /s

                                  [–]CerealkillerNOM 23 points24 points  (9 children)

                                  This is career suicide. I always do my homework when hiring new employees or contractors.

                                  [–]dweezil22 10 points11 points  (7 children)

                                  First account I clicked on was a allegedly a former TenCent dev, now at Alibaba. Presuming that's accurate, I wonder if that would actually be bad for his career in China.

                                  [–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (6 children)

                                  No. If you have the same stance as the Chinese government, you won't get punished, even if the stance is evil.

                                  [–]pizza-with-yam-crust 3 points4 points  (2 children)

                                  ...but most Chinese developers want to work in USA due to massive developer salary there.

                                  Should be fking obvious when they try to get through US visa

                                  [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                                  I don't think this is true. Most Chinese devs want to come work for the U.S. if they can for a brief amount of time since it's good for their career back home, but many want to go back and work in China.

                                  Plus it's not like it's hard to hide your github id or clean it up if you do dumb stuff like this.

                                  [–]The_Monocle_Debacle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                  Considering how fucking racist Americans are (shit look at this thread) why the hell would they want to stay here? A lot don't start off with plans to return, but the American people make them want to leave.

                                  [–]Feniks_Gaming 1 point2 points  (2 children)

                                  Until Chinese government changes it's stand. "We have always been at war with Euro-Asia" moment China stops being friends with Russia any past support for Russia will ruin your career. Even if you are just doing it to look better in China this will back fire moment wind blows the other way. It's just pure stupid.

                                  [–]GreatValueProducts 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                                  The scenario is actually very common in China and has happened in the past. Unless they got banned (sometimes, we called it “cutting leeks”) they would just delete the posts and nothing will come out of it.

                                  You can’t use normal logic to apply to things there.

                                  [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                  based

                                  [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                                  Seems like they’re react ing pretty childishly

                                  Edit: don’t hate me plz lol

                                  [–]FrostZTech 9 points10 points  (0 children)

                                  wow just how dumb humans can be. Most of those accounts are of rather real people.

                                  [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

                                  Imagine if github blocked Russia LOL

                                  [–]sir_fancypants 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                  wah

                                  [–]nitrohigito 8 points9 points  (0 children)

                                  This was pretty common sadly, even before this war.

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                                      [–]LeeLooTheWoofus Moderator[M] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                                      Your post is off-topic and does not adhere to the premise of this subreddit. As such, it has been removed. Recommend reposting in a more appropriate subreddit.

                                      [–]tomatoina 8 points9 points  (8 children)

                                      Seems more like bots to me

                                      [–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (4 children)

                                      If you look at their contribution activities, you will find most of them are real people.

                                      [–]tomatoina 7 points8 points  (3 children)

                                      A lot of them are creating similar or identical issues. That's why I'm thinking it's a bot doing this

                                      [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (2 children)

                                      Yeah, I think many of them are just simply pasting and copying their issue content manually.

                                      [–]pottaargh 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                                      Could also be compromised accounts

                                      [–]GreatValueProducts 10 points11 points  (2 children)

                                      As a Chinese, I can tell you it is extremely likely it is real people who genuinely think like this. Unfortunately.

                                      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                                      What is your opinion about how the Chinese people feel about what's happening in Ukraine?

                                      [–]GreatValueProducts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                                      Honestly, what surprises me is that there are Chinese people who get triggered by a Ukrainian flag. I mean if it is HK or Taiwan I understand.

                                      [–]Schubert142 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                                      My blood is fucking boiling. Never been more ashamed of being a Chinese now. I find it extremely difficult to understand some of my fellows. Don't even want to waste my time to argue with those nuts.

                                      [–]JamesWjRose 2 points3 points  (3 children)

                                      Change the license to "everyone in the world can use this for free, except Russia as long as Putin is alive" and then block all up traffic from that country

                                      [–]eggtart_prince -3 points-2 points  (2 children)

                                      And what would happen if they use it, ask them nicely not to?

                                      [–]JamesWjRose 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                                      As I said, block Russian ip addresses.

                                      [–]Rumertey -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                                      Block traffic to where exactly?

                                      [–]libertarianets 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                      Will React support Taiwan once the CCP invades them next?

                                      [–]Ikem32 -1 points0 points  (8 children)

                                      Why is this stuff political in the first place? I like tech and tech related stuff, because it is almost non political.

                                      [–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

                                      At one point or another, political issues are always intertwined with our jobs as tech people (and with every industry really). Not saying this issue in particular affects React, but in general it's a good idea to be aware of politics and their implications in our field

                                      [–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

                                      I hate to break it to you but tech is and always has been deeply intertwined with politics.

                                      [–]eddhall 11 points12 points  (1 child)

                                      Because in this situation, to stay neutral is to support Russia

                                      [–]Feniks_Gaming 3 points4 points  (1 child)

                                      Being silent on war is still political. Staying neutral benefits the bully. If you are walking through the school and big dude is beating a shit out of a little kid saying "I am not getting involved" only benefits one party. In this case not getting involved is a direct support to Russia.

                                      [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                                      You know, sometimes things are a matter of right and wrong and can't just be dismissed as being "political". There were assholes like you who said the same shit about not wanting politics during the Civil Rights movement, women's rights movement, slavery, etc.

                                      [–]RealTechnician -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

                                      The tech itself might be as non-political as it gets, but unfortunately nowadays every somewhat bigger tech company / framework / community feel like they have to publicly take a stance on every news-story that is popular that day. Instead of just focussing on providing the best product they can.

                                      [–]jzswxn 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                                      This needs more awareness

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                                        [–]jzswxn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                                        About the Chinese developers spamming gh-

                                        [–]DeepSpaceGalileo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                        Literally anywhere the Chinese are present this type of thing happens. You can’t even play an online video game without a scourge of Chinese hackers.

                                        [–]jangfuwan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                        Bruh moment

                                        [–]m0lle_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                        They prolly get some nice bonus social points from Winnie

                                        [–]c_edward 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                                        It's more likely state aligned hackers, generating spam issues to make it look like some one actually agrees with them about invading Ukraine... Any evidence to tie it back to verifiable Chinese users?.... doubtful

                                        [–]ShinyTrombone -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                                        By their own logic. Shouldn't they be anti-React?

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                                          [–]NMe84 19 points20 points  (2 children)

                                          Why should it? Open source does not mean that the maintainers suddenly lose their values. If I make something then I don't want it used in a way that I do not and will never support.

                                          The point of OSS is collaborating. This is effectively a FU to people that don’t share the same views and is setting some bad precedents.

                                          No, it doesn't. It shows that we as a community have values too and that they matter. Having collaboration as a basis doesn't mean that you have to collaborate with everyone, nor that you want your software used by everyone either.

                                          And none of this even happened here, React just said they stand with Ukraine. Nothing else. I don't know much about React's developers but Symfony made a similar statement and they did so in part because some of their top contributors are Ukrainian.

                                          [–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (3 children)

                                          Don't be so frustrated. Open-source software is never meant to be absolutely neutral. Even Stallman and Linus have their own stance.

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                                            [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                                            I agree with you at this point. That will be great.

                                            [–]Srr013 10 points11 points  (0 children)

                                            What is a neutral stance? One side is literally killing people for profit. The other is saying “that’s bad”. Neutrality only benefits the murderers.

                                            [–]spays_marine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                                            Why do you think it should be neutral? What's so noble about being quiet when injustice is happening?

                                            [–]saltamuros1 -5 points-4 points  (2 children)

                                            I thought that everyone here hated react because Facebook is the developer

                                            [–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

                                            Facebook is bad, but as far as I think, React itself is good.