I was on #apple on freenode a while back asking for help with a strange HDD driver failure I was getting on my macbook after installing Linux on a secondary disk.
A channel mod informed me that, because Linux didn't use Apple's proprietary advanced power management protocols (which don't exist, by the way), Linux would overheat and utterly destroy my CPU.
After insisting that this was not my issue, and that what he was saying was ridiculous, he permabanned me. I looked him up online, thinking this was surely a joke, and it turns out this guy is a well-known weirdo with a pathological fear of open source software. It was very strange, and I have no idea how such a person got a mod position in a tech channel.
Since we're swapping stories of weird bans... I got banned for saying Battlefield != Call of Duty. I have no stake in the matter; I don't play either game. But apparently this was enough to warrant a permanent ban!
A channel mod informed me that, because Linux didn't use Apple's proprietary advanced power management protocols (which don't exist, by the way), Linux would overheat and utterly destroy my CPU.
After insisting that this was not my issue, and that what he was saying was ridiculous, he permabanned me. I looked him up online, thinking this was surely a joke, and it turns out this guy is a well-known weirdo with a pathological fear of open source software. It was very strange, and I have no idea how such a person got a mod position in a tech channel.