I'm new, so I'm unaware of the rules. I'll simply assume I'm allowed to post this, if there are any moderators, please tell me if this simply shouldn't be here.

I came from Sololearn, and someone told me to download devRant. I love it.

I was the most active participant in the Sololearn Q&A, answering questions and replying to comments quicker than you can close the app.

Everyone knows me and enjoys having me there, but something happened. Some idiotic troll kept harassing and trolling others including myself. The mods banned him but he returned and was targeting me.

He made over 50 accounts and never replied to a comment with the same account. He sent threats and continued polluting Sololearn.

The mods had a theory is was me and banned my account. I'm heartbroken, furious, upset, and empty without my SL account. My codes are gone, my comments, answers, and replied are gone. Everything is gone.

They think I ruined SL with a false account and I'm trying to clear my name. I'm innocent.

That's when I discovered this app. In SL I loved the community and the Q&A and everything. I loved helping out but now I can't. People are even making posts asking me to return, but the mods removed them.

I hope the community here treats me well, and I hope this will replace SL. So far, I haven't felt the same way as I did with SL, but I'll try to love it just as much.

@runfrodorun
Thank you so much! :)

@runfrodorun
Ooh, I like it. No one to tell me I'm doing something wrong, and no one to ban my account without proof. I'm going to like it here :)

@michelle welcome! Like @runfrodorun says, we have no moderators here :)

@plusgut that's not an actual rule so please don't try to advertise it as one. It's what we have the downvote as repost option for. Edit: we have an update of the community rules that will reflect that more clearly as I could see it getting lost right now.

@Michelle no I'm not, i just said the things I observed what others are liking and disliking.

@dfox
Thank you! The no rules thing is rather strange, but I simply love it. :)

@dfox isn't it implicitly a rule then? And isn't there a repost detection implemented?

@Michelle haha, we do have some basic rules like no highly offensive/illegal content and no politics, but beyond that we try to keep it pretty relaxed and we don't try to tell people what to post.

@plusgut no, it's not. The whole point of the "repost" option is so people who might not have seen content that is a repost still have the opportunity to see it while those who don't want to see reposts can turn them off in the app settings.

@dfox okay sorry then for getting it wrong

And repost detection tries to automatically detect image reposts in a short period of time, but it's not meant to stop reposts entirely.

@dfox
Simply wonderful, unlike Sololearn. I've noticed there are no trolls at all here, even though there are basic rules.

@plusgut no problem, in general we try to like to keep it so no voices here try to tell other members what to post.

@Michelle we definitely have a great community and everyone is usually really nice to each other. I think sometimes you'll see some heated discussions (though rare) but I don't think that's a bad thing and while we always encourage civility we don't want to stop debate (as long as it's generally about dev/tech).

@Michelle Welcome :)

@PrivateGER
Thank you :)

Hello there and welcome, awesome person! We are/this is a very friendly community of devs/sysadmins and so on :). Feel free to rant about anything (mostly dev related though (correct me if I'm wrong)).

We're very nice in general although heated convo's happen sometimes (I'm a huge linux/FOSS/privacy/security guy so if someone says something I don't like, I of course start discussions :P) but hardly any trolls here and I've made some very good friends myself on here so yeah, welcomes much and enjoy! As long as you keep on being awesome, you'll most probably be defended when shit would go sideways =)

@linuxxx
Thanks! This sounds like a lovely community, and I'm sure the support is much better here than back at Sololearn.

@Michelle Don't know sololearn but yeah it's awesome here!

SoloLearn is hell compared to this. I switched too :D

@PrivateGER
Finally, someone I can relate too! Honestly, the mods are out of control, the spammers and trolls have increased, and the admins are terrible at responding to emails.
I can't believe I waited this long to switch.

@Michelle Especially the 7-year old HTML "programmers".

@PrivateGER
Or worse, those child "hackers."

@Michelle you are nub I knwo all progarmig langages

Oh my, how I hate it.

@PrivateGER
It's really annoying. If you don't mind me asking, who were you on SL? I'm trying to see if I can recognize you.

@Michelle I'm Private [GER]. I do sometimes use it to refresh on my C# skills, but not really anymore since I'm more interested in web-programming and there are no advanced courses.

@PrivateGER
Yeah, everything there is only for beginners. I was about to say I'll follow you, but I remembered they banned my account lol.

@ThatDude
It's the first time I've seen a community so calm. I didn't think it was possible. In SL, heated topics aren't permitted. If you do create one, it ends in chaos.

@ThatDude
Ooh, thanks for mentioning that subscribing is an option. I just figured it out how on your profile.

@ThatDude
I didn't know that was an option either. Thanks!!

@SoulSkrix
I've heard so many great things about this community, such as what you said. This is the reason I made the switch. In SL, people could careless, especially those heartless mods. Glad I stopped convincing them of my innocence and moved here.

@Michelle Oh the creators of this awesome community (@dfox and @trogus) are active and very nice people's themselves on here! I personally fucking love this place and I'm very active (you might be able to see that from the amount of upvotes I have (35k+ right now) 😅). This place is where I found some of the best privacy friends I have and that's rare! (you can look at the testimonials section on https://devrant.io and you'll see mine regarding this :P)

@linuxxx
Makes me excited to continue using it!

@Michelle Yes you should be excited to use it! (not meant in an ordering way)🙌

@Michelle You know, I hardly subscribe to anyone's rants but fuck it, subscribing to yours!

@linuxxx
Wow, thanks! I've already subscribed to yours since you left your first comment on my post thing. I like the enthusiasm and tone of your comments.

that's awful - sounds like the sololearn mods didn't even investigate the issue

@ParkCity
They claimed they did saying the troll logged in on my device. Though, it's impossible unless he had my device ID, which is also impossible. Clearly I won't be returning to SL.

@Michelle Damn, nobody ever said that to me in the way you just did, thanks!

@linuxxx
That's a surprise, considering the unique voice in it.

@babeman
Thank you :)

@Michelle Not entirely getting that unique voice part but hope you're enjoying devRant already!

@linuxxx
Haha sorry, I'm a writer so I say a lot of crazy things like that. Thanks, I am enjoying it. There's so many kind and sympathetic people.

@Michelle we have a few here, but they will always exist. As with anywhere, not feeding them is the best defense ;)

Welcome aboard, enjoy your stay, and hopefully this becomes home to you as it did for me ❤

@Michelle Very glad to hear that! And that's alright haha :P

@QueenMorgana
I figured. No place is safe from trolls :)
Thanks, I'm loving it already!

@QueenMorgana @michelle Yes also the home part that The Queen said!

@Michelle 🤗

Welcome to the community :D Feel free to release all the anger you have 😅

@Ederbit
Thanks!
Oh, and with pleasure ;)

@dfox vim vs emacs counts as politic?

Also, welcome @Michelle! SL is awesome to those who want to practice and learn new languages, sorry to know you got banned. But if you could make yourself a spot there, here you'll have zero troubles and every bit of fun.

@stereohisteria
Regarding the ban, I wasn't at fault. Anyway, thank you so much!

@gofrendi
Trolls are the worst. I'll try to build a reputation on stackoverflow just as I did on SL.
Thanks for the advice, I'll keep it in mind :).

@matsaki95
It was confirmed to be a single person. He must have no life, to create 50+ accounts and post around 20 posts on the Q&A.

@runfrodorun no I think what makes this community unique is that it's self correcting. Everything is self moderated. If you post something stupid you'll get roasted, if you post something good you'll get voted, simple. That's moderation in its self.

Sorry to hear of what happened to you on SoloLearn. I just started using the app and like it so far. But hopefully devRant will meet your socialization/learning needs in another way :).

Welcome to the friendliest dev community!

Welcome! Enjoy your stay. It'll be very long...

Seriously though, sucks your account got banned. As the others have pointed out, we're far more relaxed and civil (for now).

Such support, much wow! Welcome to devRant (although I'm late). Hope you have a great time here.

@michelle I wonder, what made the troll target you?

That's a great first rant. Keep going

@Michelle Same here, I was also using Sololearn so much but since they started spamming, asking simple question without research I stopped using that. Now using devRant to relief stresses in life. devRant >> any stress ball

(Will open sometimes as I am working on some content for there.)

And @Michelle was your name Michelle there, since I don't remember anyone with that name. Mine is Ram Chandra Giri and was active in Q&A also.

@RamChandra
I became active last month or two months ago. I remember you. Yeah, SL started to suck.

@MaxS
He made a post saying "what's htnl?" I said "there was no htnl. It's called HTML. After that he went crazy with spam.

@mxcmxc
SL used to be great. I remember when it was. Thanks :)

@Pizza
Thank you!

@DefiniteGoose
Ah. What was your name on there? I want to see of I can recognize you.

@Worldyn
It is extremely friendly. I love it.

@World
Thank you, I love it already.

@TheCapeGreek
Thanks. I'm glad I won't have to worry about an account ban here.

@ThatDude
Wow, I'm really glad that friend introduced me to devRant. If that's how the system works, I love it.

@Michelle wow... it's a good thing the crazy one's stay on the internet, out of reach.

@MaxS
Yeah, thankfully.

@Michelle well you got over 20 ++ so if you mail the creators you will get dev rant stickers!

@Worldyn
Thanks for letting me know. I'll do it now :)

Welcome,

Its like an unwritten rule only to recommend devRant to nice devs.
(Its not but its the smart thing to do)

Everyone here is supportive of each other, I've only seen one incident, which wasn't that nice but its been a while since then, here.

Enjoy your stay and may the code be with you

@moortuvivens
Thanks!

@itsnameless
I recognize you ;)

@itsnameless
I recognize your name. Lol.

@DefiniteGoose
No, I don't recognize you. Sorry. I'm not sure if you recognize me though.

@dfox
Simply a question, if I ever delete a rant, will it remove the pluses next to my name or will they remain?

@Michelle if you delete a rant you lose any ++ from that rant.

Not to make a tumblr out of devrant but i could totally see our lovely lady here with @linuxxx

Welcome, Michelle!

Poor soul *hug*

...Just try to put this behind you and I hope you find peace of mind / inspiration here and will continue on the dev path

@olezhka
Aw, thanks :').

@Michelle welcome to the coolest place on the internet for people like us. @dfox and @trogus created a cool "home" for us and anyone is welcome. I've dealt with a few trolls here, but it was very minor and nothing like what you went through at SL. I'm sorry you had to go through that.

@MissDirection
Thank you :).

@itsnameless
I'm so thankful you did. I still feel empty without Sololearn, but I'll manage. Thanks again for referring me to devRant. I love it so much.

@AlexDeLarge maybe she will be a competitor to your amount of ++?

@AlexDeLarge :D alright

@AlexDeLarge I was up there for a while, thanks to my year-long internship. My co-workers were great but I went through a steep learning curve. That generated a lot of rants.

I think the only time I celebrated for myself was when I reached 10k. It was a small community back then and I absolutely loved it 😀 Although it was a little unfair to @Jumpshot44, because he was really close to 10k as well. When I reached about 8.6k, some devRanters started to upvote me furiously to push me to 10k 🙃

@AlexDeLarge rest assured some of us only ++ you when you're being a cranky old man (you seem the type to yell "get off my lawn"). Can't let your up votes go to your head ;)😂😂

@AlexDeLarge
Thank you, I get that alot. Also, it does cheer me up. Thanks so much!

@AlexDeLarge Thanks haha but I don't think that will happen anytime soon :). You grow really fucking fast and although I do as well, I think you grow quite faster!

It's kind of weird explaining the 'being happy with a lot/the most upvotes' part in my case and I've literally been trying to put it into words for about the last 15 minutes!

For me it's like this: I don't give a single fuck about upvotes and at the same time I love having a lof ot them!

But not 'because of the upvotes'.

It's always been a dream for me (from being a young guy on) to grow 'into something' like idk having a certain status/achieving somethingy. I just always kept telling myself that that would never happen and if it would, certainly not with my hobby/passion.

But now it's starting to happen. I'm a very fervid privacy person as loads of people know and it's honestly (no, not fucking kidding, it really, really fucking is) an awesome feeling to know that people like (or hate, that comes along as well) you for what you actually stand for AND value your opinion on that matter. For most people I know, I'm just that fucking paranoid guy and I can't really be my complete self. On here I can be myself as I know that people know that I (mostly) know what I'm talking about and in case shit goes sideways I can always rely on some people to back me up!

People associate two of my biggest hobbies with me on here (Linux/privacy) and that is also one of the things that get's my upvote count higher I think.

It's just awesome (for me personally) that one of the main things you always dreamed about slowly becomes a reality :)

in case anything in this comment doesn't make sense, I've had a long day and I am very tired :P

@ThatDude What do you mean exactly? 😅

@ThatDude Uhm okay 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅

@ThatDude I just don'get get the fingers cramping and superman part 😅

@Michelle Also sorry for disturbing your rant uhm 😅

@ThatDude I wrote it in like three minutes or something, don't worry haha

@linuxxx
I don't mind. This is entertaining to read :).

@ThatDude NO, IF THE FUCKING SELLER WOULD FINALLY SEND THAT MOTHERFUCKING THING, IT WOULD HELP ME OUT A FUCKING LOT SINCE THE JACKPLUG INPUT IS CURRENTLY FUCKED MEANING THAT I DO *NOT* HAVE THE ABILITY TO LISTEN TO MUSIC ANYWHERE EXCEPT FOR AT MY JOB AND HOME. (not aggressive at you or anything!)

@ThatDude Who is him in this case? :)
@Michelle Fair enough haha :)

@ThatDude AliExpress. If they don't send it within about a month, I'll get my money back :)

@ThatDude I've already got a job now.... did you miss that? :P

@ThatDude Oh you mean in my current phone?

@linuxxx There is something in the headphone jack input that I cannot get out! It charges just fine :)

What kind of adapter @ThatDude? 😅

@ThatDude Dbh I do NOT think they sell those over here :/ (I go to tech stores regularly)

@linuxxx 'Dbh'. Damn. That's some autocorrect (of my own fingers) next level (it means DataBase Handler). I meant Tbh.

@ThatDude Yeah wondering that one myself....

@ThatDude I JUST MIGHT HAVE FIXED THAT INPUT THINGY OMG

@linuxxx Trying again with a paperclip again for about 10 minutes did the trick I think xD. Let's wait until it's charged again (simply forgot about that one haha) and seeeeee!

@ThatDude 😆

Whoa 3 days and 600++s? You're growing pretty fast. Nice. Keep up the good work!

@World
I assumed it was simple, but thank you! :)

Woah woah woah. This rant is huge.

@Michelle I also came from SoloLearn. I only used it as a springboard to learn languages though (python, sql, html and javascript). Never liked the social aspect of the playground. Too many people doing uninteresting/uncreative stuff for points, and the community was... Lacking.

It sucks that you lived that, but hey! Focus on the bright side, now you are with us :)

@linuxxx dude your comment about why you like ++s made me drop a tear. Idk why but I like you (in a completely heterosexual manner).

@gitcommit
The code playground was terrible. There was simply too much plagarism, and simple (hello world) codes.
Yeah, I enjoy being with this community :).

@Michelle yep. That was exactly how the playground was. Here you won't learn much about languages in particular, but you can learn a ton about the software development world, new technologies and Linux. Plus, the most important thing is that it keeps you motivated to keep on with programming. It's awesome :)

@gitcommit
Wow, sounds amazing!

Welcome to devrant...
I hope you already are well aware now with tons of welcome comments above.. and tons of ++ already(which is amazing 😜)..
Have a great time ranting and sharing moments with all devranters..

Welcome :-)
No one dare to troll here :-P
We'll flood his/her account with -vote with the swear he never heard 😂
Dev community is one of the best
So does this Devrant community
But sometimes we meet few fucktard too everywhere
But if they appear here
They will be banned
Welcome again :-)
Hope you like this place
This is my 127.0.0.1 😄

@github
Thanks. This community is so kind and simply welcoming.

@Thewebdev
Thank you :)
That's comforting to hear.

What idiots. They can't just delete an account with no evidence, and they also know for a fact that if you were this person, you would just make a new account.

@SpencerBeige
I suppose so. Either way, I'm done with them.

@SpencerBeige @Michelle now that I think about it, if we were 4chan, we'd flood SoloLearn with negative reviews. That would be fun, but we are all adults here, right? (except for a lot of 12-17 years old, which is cool)

@gitcommit
Haha the SL mods would hunt you down if you did that.

@Michelle after your design question it's quite nice to read your backstory (it's how the DevRant algo works just popped this morning)

I still hope you can work things out with SL this is indeed a nice community with almost no rules at all but it is self regulating and a place to vent. Not like SL and Stack overflow to ask questions and help people (even though we do sometimes). As you seem to be a person to get happiness from helping others I recommend you also find a replacement for SL unless you can work it out with SL mods in a timely fashion. I take it you are done with the mods but not it's members.

Do they have any proof by the way?

@hjk101
Oh, no. I'm done with it completely.
I realized how terrible SL was. The tutorials are copied from other sources—without credit,—the mods are out of control, the admins never answer emails, and the members spam and troll the Q&A.

I don't need SL anymore. I've found devRant as an addiction.

They did actually. Apparently Jayne's account was logged on my device, which is nearly impossible unless he somehow hacked into my device and found my imei number.

@Michelle Ow boy I see you graduated to from cocaine to heroine. Glad to see you get your fix here 😀

Never even heard of Solo learn before. Seems that I missed nothing. How is IMEI involved in this?

@hjk101
As I said, the admins said he logged into my device.
There's no way he could have done that without my device's imei number.

@itsnameless
I hope you're joking lol.

Ever heard about reddit?
Those guys fuck 😁

just discovered this in the algo
I was and still am in Sololearn and I'm starting to get very annoyed by it too although I like to help, but there are so many scammers, the same questions over and over again, lots of people posting in russian or some other language, I've already seen people leave voluntarily because of all of this, It's not all bad, but it's no good

@catintroholic
What's your name on SL? Perhaps I recognize you.
But I agree, over the years, it's been getting worse.

@Michelle My name's aloisia (but upside down), yep It defo got worse

I'm getting really angry that they banned you, the more I think about it the more illogical and nonsensical it seems to me, I've seen your posts and answers they were completely fine, always helpful, what motive would you have to create troll accounts?

@catintroholic
I don't recognize you, my apologies.
Thank you. At least some people are grateful for my effort. :)
I asked them if I was Jayke, then what would be my motive. Ahri and Jay (mods) said it was for attention or something.
I don't know why they would think that. It's simply out of character for me. :(

No worries, I wasn't always very active :)

Little shits are missing out! A huge mistake on their part. :D

@Yasmin
Obviously :D

@rishabhverma
One of the most recent mods (a friend who's on my side) showed me how SL has changed yesterday.
And wow. It has improved so much! But the users are still toxic, the other mods are still terrible, and the admins still aren't good at their jobs.
SL is still utter trash. I can't believe I used to love it.

@rishabhverma
Currently reading as in book? If so, I'm reading Asleep by Krystal Wade. I bought it yesterday and I'm almost finished.

@rishabhverma
I used to, but I got tired of trying to increase the numbers at a rapid rate for my goals so I stopped. I left goodreads temporarily, but I'll certainly return when ST gets published.

@rishabhverma
By John Green? Yeah, I've read it. :)

@rishabhverma
Uh, sure. I also have a discord. :)

@rishabhverma
Michelle#0933

This has 200+ comments wow

@PrivateGER
I know haha. It's a shame I might deleted one day in case the mods decide to join devRant.

@DefiniteGoose
They banned me.

@DefiniteGoose
I know, but it's embarrassing if they saw this.

@Michelle I actually think it would be embarrassing for them to see it. It proves that even the most active members got banned from the platform for no reason.

@PrivateGER
Their POV is different from mine. I know I'm not guilty, but they honestly believe I am, because the SL admins practically brainwashed them into believing it, so if they saw this, they'd get angry, thinking I'm over reacting.

@SoulSkrix
I don't like to repeat things and it was stated in this rant...

I'll repeat it once more.

TL;DR: I was active on SL which made me a victim to the major troll, Jayke. Jayke harassed the users, spammed the Q&A, and said harmful stuff. They thought I was Jayke, so I was banned.

@SoulSkrix
Considering there are no moderators, I'm sure it'll be a lot better than SL.
(dfox and trogus don't count as mods. Developers and admins are different from mods)

me too i come from sololearn !

@Michelle yes !

@appinv
I used to be active, not sure if you remember me. After I left, everyone sort of forgot I existed lol.

@Michelle i remember see my profile https://sololearn.com/Profile/... i was wondering what happened

@appinv
Ah cool. You're a platinum. I was scared for a moment that you were a mod, until I checked your badges. Fortunately, you're not.

I'm so glad you remember me. Everyone else forgot haha. :)

@Michelle fact was i was a bit off sl and you were nowhere to be seen when i came back. else check out my last rant

@appinv
Ahri, Rei, and Jay deleted all the questions related to me.

People did ask what happened, and asked me to return, but they deleted them. :(

I sae your rant, and I thought it was really cool! I like how you told your codong adventure in the form of a story. Simply perfect. :)

@Michelle tk

@teganburns
Lol why did you do that?

You already spammed some of my comments, so I returned the spam, and for some reason, you returned it by spamming my rants lol.

@teganburns
You didn't have to do that, but thank you.

@Michelle i will say some good words in the Forums About your account haha

@Michelle by the way i couldn't Image if they banned my account… omg

@HTMLspecialist
You don't have to, but thank you. This happened almost a year ago, so I'm over it. At first, I was devastated, but I've learned to hate Sololearn with a burning passion. My loyalties lie with with devRant, not Sololearn.

@Michelle of course, my loyalties lie with devRant too! But I like sololearn because it really thought me the basics of many programming languages.

Ok so the Discuss is shit because there are too many people asking too many dumb shitty questions who are of topic.

BUT I have to say that the quality of the codes increased crazy the last months.

@HTMLspecialist
Okay, so the Q&A and the code playground is the same...
Are the moderators still as crazy and power-abusive as always?

@Michelle I never had problems with moderators - so from my view it is a "no, they are not"

This is what I mean with shit in the q&A's nobody cares about, but I am not the only one who is annoyed as you can see

@HTMLspecialist
Oh shoot. Since when did Gawen become a mod? Wow, it's been a while since I've been on.

Also, there used to not be that mod badge thing.

The mods usually abuse their power, but I'm not sure if they do that.

The administrators are worse. They absolutely give no shits, and it's rare for them to reply to people.

@Michelle the mod badge is new;
And you can gain it at like level 20 or so?!;
And yes the admins are worst I would say because I think sololearn has not enough. I fall so many shit q&as and it takes like a week until they get deleted(if they get deleted)

@Michelle I have to correct myself when I think about it.
I just flagged a random post which didn't matter as a Q&a and it directly got deleted. And also(I don't know if you knew that) they added an 'Activity-Feed' feature, where you not just share your activities like if you earned a badge, but also you can write posts with the content you want(it should be code related), so that the people share thinks like "I have got 0.2k!" there, but many people still don't know that it is existing or didn't knew it for a long time. So the moderators have much work in redirecting the people to the activity feed posting feature, because many people just don't know it.

@HTMLspecialist
Oh, so I guess the users are as toxic as always. Thank goodness I'm not there anymore.

I actually used to be a mod, but only for like a day. I lost my "badge" after they banned me.

I used to be online friends with Tashi, Ace, Rei, Valentine, and Jay... But they literally stopped talking to me after I was banned. I didn't even do anything.

xD
Look what I found

@Samaritan
"Justice for Jayke" "bring back jayke"

Wtf... What is wrong with these people? Why do they like that guy? And I thought all the jayke accounts were banned.

@FrodoSwaggins
Ah, I finally beat you. ;)