MP All Models Who is moving the Mac Pro specific Windows / Linux etc threads?

[mattspace]

Whichever moderator is doing this, please stop.

These are threads about the Mac Pro specifically. Some of them have been in here for years.

This group is not about Mac Pros running macOS, it's about anything done on a Mac Pro. Windows, Linux, Opencore, whatever; if a Mac Pro is the platform it's done upon, these threads belong here. The late Avro707's recent thread about dealing with MPX GPUs; something only found in a Mac Pro, under Windows, for example.

I know for certain I am not the only one concerned about the moderation that has been happening in this group of late. I think it's time for the regular posters in this group to hold an open, and frank discussion about what we want in our forum; why posts clearly about Mac Studios:

"Mac Pro to Mac Studio transition solutions"

...are allowed, while posts about the technical specifics of installing other operating systems on our Mac Pro hardware are not.

As a part of this discussion, I think there is a valid question to be asked as to whether the person(s) engaging in this accelerating trend of relocating threads is acting according to the wishes of the users of this group (should they be seeking our consent for moving threads), or acting according to their own personal preferences.

I may be wrong on this, being as flawed a person as any, but I don't think I am. What say you, folks?

 

[Flint Ironstag]

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As a part of this discussion, I think there is a valid question to be asked as to whether the person(s) engaging in this accelerating trend of relocating threads is acting according to the wishes of the users of this group (should they be seeking our consent for moving threads), or acting according to their own personal preferences...

This right here. Mac Pro users don't go into other forums spraying **** on their hardware like a hippo. The mods definitely tolerate and perhaps encourage it here. Maybe the mods should be required to own and operate a Mac Pro. In all seriousness, if the mods cannot comprehend the reason for Mac Pro's existence, and its vast potential, they don't belong here.

Increasingly, when there's any discussion of innovation on the Mac Pro, the naysayers flock in.

I'm definitely going to be discussing LLMs, Proxmox, etc. and ALL of that discussion belongs here, because a lot of the issues and capabilities at hand are exclusive to Mac Pro. We don't need a MacBook Air using mod coming in here and limiting our imaginations and scope of discussion.

Please fix this.

 

[mattspace]

This right here. Mac Pro users don't go into other forums spraying **** on their hardware like a hippo.

And the thing is, I posted a thread here for the community of this forum, as a bit of a mocking sledge at the Mac Studio, for having its configs cancelled for lack of higher RAM options in light of our ability to buy, and upgrade RAM whenever we like. An in-joke to be shared amongst the rest of us; the Mac Pro forum community. Then, the post gets moved to the Mac Studio forum, and now I look like exactly the sort of expletive deleted person we've all complained about coming into this forum to mock us / fansplain Apple's "wisdom" in cancelling our preferred machines.

So even though we don't actively do that, the moderators are making us into the people we complain about.

 

[chown33]

If you want moderators and admins to see this, you should discuss it in the Site & Forum Feedback forum.

Site and Forum Feedback

questions, suggestions, & comments about the site or forums; MacRumors announcements

forums.macrumors.com

I only spotted it here because I was scanning through New Posts.

https://forums.macrumors.com/whats-new/posts/

Rather than move this thread, you can start a new thread in SFF, and adjust the wording so readers there will know what you're discussing. If there are specific examples you want mods and admins to consider, please use links to refer to them, rather than just descriptions.

 

[Regulus67]

This group is not about Mac Pros running macOS, it's about anything done on a Mac Pro. Windows, Linux, Opencore, whatever; if a Mac Pro is the platform it's done upon, these threads belong here.

I certainly think so as well. And if comments are moved to other sections, I will most likely miss them entirely.
Quite surprising if this is going to be the norm here.

So many comments lately have been dismissing the value of a Mac Pro 7,1 and promoting other hardware, that I have almost stopped commenting.
I come here to follow the discussions on its use. I am not going to go to the Mac Studio threads, to search for Mac Pro 7,1 content.

It’s sad enough that very few think it has reached a good value/price proposition.
First it was stupidly expensive, and now it is obsolete 🤷‍♂️

 

[Flint Ironstag]

It’s sad enough that very few think it has reached a good value/price proposition.
First it was stupidly expensive, and now it is obsolete 🤷‍♂️

This is the mind-boggling part. But this is good for us - I will continue to stock up. Especially the rack mounts.