So, now I am the bad guy? 
If they are allowing that discord to use their name, and even promoting it on their official wiki as a source for Arch Linux support. That doesnât look good for Arch. The longer itâs allowed to go on without Arch stepping in and demanding it be stopped or that they stop using the Arch Linux name the more I have to believe they approve. The least they could do is disavow it and remove their endorsement of the server as a resource from their wiki.
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I agree. I think at least there should have at least disavowed. And the fact that the moderators have not taken it down death threats but has taken down dissenting voices about them no longer linking to X says a lot.
To me this is really sad. I have primarily used Arch and Debian(in the form of LMDE) for years now. Why does this even need to creep into software development? Shouldnât we be able to use our OS without having to worry about political affiliation?
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These things donât need to creep in. They have nothing at all to do with Linux. They are all about a loud group of people whoâs only purpose in life is to crash parties.
They are miserable.
They wake up in the morning miserable.
They go through their day miserable.
They go to bed at night miserable.
Tomorrow is just a repeat.
They are miserable and they MUST make everyone else as miserable as they are.
I refuse to let them drag me down with them.
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ArchWiki is kind of like wikipedia, where changes happen when users submit change requests. There is not really a team dedicated to moderating the wiki. If you use arch and are unhappy with that being on the wiki, submit a change request with your reasoning.
I am a member of that discord server, but I havenât been on it in nearly a year.
I donât think it is necessarily the responsibility of the official Arch team to denounce or affirm what is happening in a discord server run by random users. And even having it listed on the wiki is just saying âsome users congregate here.â Now, if that discord server is run and moderated by someone that is part of the actual Arch team tgen that would be a different story, but I donât know enough about who is in charge.
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Log in and express your displeasure with this and see if you get banned. Unfortunately, this has been happening with a lot of distros lately. Activists/extremists somehow take over and purge anyone that doesnât conform to their political ideology. On one distro they actually called it a purge. Itâs awful and destructive. These distros arenât going to benefit from this. They are pushing out good people for not being extremists.
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I am so glad we wonât have to face that nonsense here, to keep it PG.
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It is sad you can not have a differing opinion. Heck, you can agree with 99% of what they say but if you have one minor dissenting thought, poof, banned. They really just want an echo chamber for their thoughts. Let them.
You can say it i srun by random users, but if they even link to it as a resource, then it just looks like they are trying to insulate themselves. At the end of the day, Iâll just go elsewhere to get away from it. Hence, being here.
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The problem is they want the entire world to be their echo chamber.
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Well, well, wellâŚ
PS: Installed Open Mandriva 
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I was planning on slowly moving my systems over. But seeing how Arch and Debian have both gone this way, I probably will be moving over a lot quicker than I planned. Working pretty well on the systems Iâve installed it on so far.
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We have a small team here, but it is growing. People are showing up and editing translations, testing, helping on the forums, maintaining packages, new developers, etc. I for one, am glad to be a small part of it all. Growth means opportunities.
Is OpenMandriva perfect? Of course not, but it is a work in progress and progress is being made. 
If there is a package missing and you need it, you can put in a âPackage Requestâ at GitHub ¡ Where software is built
Being a small team, you wonât get that package built in a day, but the team will work through the list of requests. In the mean time, you can get some help to manually install that package for the time being. Donât just sit there and say âOpenMandriva doesnât have everything I need, so I will just move on.â
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You must realise something before hapilly going down that troll-road:
Archâs Code of Conduct -being a strictly technical distro- is very clear what happens to posts that touch Religion, Sport, Race, Nationalism, Politics, they are all being closed and deleted without a notice.
Snippet of CoC:
Controversy/controversial topics #
There is no explicit list of topics considered to be âtrollishâ, controversial or provocative, but in the past, posts pertaining to Religion, Sports, Race, Nationalism and Politics have invariably been closed. Therefore, specifically avoid these and all divisive topics in the Arch community. The staff certainly realize that such issues are deeply ingrained human realities. However, this is a technical community and is not intended nor able to effectively facilitate such commentary nor the resulting unrest.
Sadly, Lunduke has really gone too far with his provoking.
This is not Arch. Please stop it.
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Did you click on that link?
No, I did not. I donât care what their Code of Conduct says. That is their site. We are not Arch.
Yet you allow people to spread misinformation by linking trolling content? And even more upvote their posts?
Dude, put on your big boy pants and get over it. You are the only one here who is angry.
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Oh now I am âangryâ now? It must be a pattern you doing this every time you run out of arguments.
I have no argument. You do.
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