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Is it appropriate for someone to be a mod here when they don't understand open source, and insult users in the community? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://lemmy.ml/post/13864821

I'd understand if they were a random user, but a mod should already have at least some understanding about a community's topic.

But worse to me are their comments in that post calling the people responding "childish trolls in this community". I do not think that this is appropriate for a moderator.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@isVeryLoud Even "source available" is a license. The code sent to your browser may be proprietary, all rights reserved, you may not be legally allowed to study it, yet it has to be somehow sent to your browser for things to appear on your screen. The fact that it's readable, and the fact that you are legally allowed to read it, are two different things. All I'm saying is that taking the "open" as "readable" is simply wrong, that's not how things work. If it did, many things would fall apart.