Really people should go to the kernel threads and read all of them carefully and the links to the social media and read them careful too, it’s not too big.

No, people who aren’t involved with the kernel should not get involved with this, that’s Torvald’s point. You can’t let a serious project like Linux be affected by social media uproar, let the developers sort it out amongst themselves.

Depends on your instance’s definition. We define it as:

3.6. Vote Manipulation: Attempts to manipulate the voting system is not tolerated including the usage of sock puppet accounts, target voting someone for who they are rather than their content, and mass downvoting posts.

We once banned a few accounts for mass down voting, i.e. their (total downvotes - total upvotes) were over 6 000. One account had downvoted more than 10 000 times in a single community.

At programming.dev “vote manipulation” is against out Code of Conduct and we would send the user a warning to stop. I’m sure your instance has something similar written down.