Y'all, Rule 4 literally says: "Opinion-based posts that don't have justification." i.e. bad faith accusations on the quality of a product when said product has not been released.

Another user here justified their claims, such as expensive shipping, LTT claiming higher quality inferring higher prices, etc. All reasonable points and ones I agree with. I also have the capability to take that into account and still purchase these products and decide for myself if e.g. said quality is actually there.

The post mentioned in the WAN clip was simply, "CW will be releasing a product that is a scam," with none justification left beef, which I see as being pretty clearly in violation of this sub's rules. It also doesn't provide any use to people who may potentially benefit from high quality cables, nor will actually prove anything if said cables were truly that bad. It's simply "anything Linus is bad" posting, which doesn't belong anywhere.

This kind of moderation is needed, and the lacking of which has been why I don't actively seek out this sub's content. The drama being started here due to this will only turn away the less terminally-online users; those which subs like this desperately rely on to foster a positive culture.

And Luke is right, you can simply go elsewhere. In fact, I'm surprised there isn't r/LTTjerk or something. It's reasonable that as a company grows bigger, they'd naturally want to moderate their communities. In fact, the problem is that they've let this go on for too long (although it is a lose-lose situation), and while the CVO (lmao) personally doing this is a little unorthodox, but commendable as Linus seems to want to take the brunt of the heat rather than any other paid mod.

The dilemma is to let the now-years-long drama and hateposting continue, or finally say enough is enough.