Are you creating a scapegoat ?

Scapegoat for what? What would I have to gain? What is wrong with my statement? A scapegoat is “someone who is blamed or punished for another’s faults or actions” according to the Cambridge Dictionary. I don’t see anyone else secretly at fault here but the author of the post.

It looks like you are targeting this blogger for no reason this time.

To be plain: The article is subpar and I didn’t enjoy reading it. I always click on their links to find out if they finally made another good blog post after the single one I read (don’t remember what it was about, tbh) but I’m disappointed.

The author spams the [email protected] community with their own blog. It’s the most linked blog on the Linux community front page currently, with five articles. That would be OK for me if it wasn’t empty hulls of articles but interesting opinion pieces or information which can’t be found on every wiki out there.

Especially for this article there are countless better and just as useless ones already out there. The first page of Google already gives me nine useless articles and this one: https://devconnected.com/how-to-add-user-to-sudoers-on-ubuntu-20-04/ – that has screenshots and explains what sudo is and what you can do with it.

Everyone should feel welcome here. I see nothing wrong with the topic of this very blog post.

I agree to both of this. I don’t say they’re not welcome here, just that most of the content on their blog is of no interest to me and doesn’t add value to the Internet. It would be okay if they didn’t spam the whole Linux community with their blog so it’s basically the only thing they contribute. This is how their post history looks like:

78% of their recent posts are their own content. Their own content is explaining stuff from a point of view of a Linux newbie to other newbies. Sometimes it’s incomplete, sometimes the information isn’t quite correct.

E.g. in this post, they claim they have to become root with su and then add a superfluous sudo at the beginning of the next command. Also adding people to the sudo group is not a guaranteed way to get sudo rights on all Linux systems, so they should’ve added the distribution this works on, which then would at least have provided searchability.

The author also often doesn’t reply to feedback, which I don’t like. I’m free to express my dislike about this. I’ll also refrain from posting any feedback, criticism or comments whatsoever to their posts unless they’re promoting something which is outright dangerous, which I seriously doubt.

The options you mean are arbitrary. You can use any group name you want for sudo privilage, or just directly add the user(i use wheel group personaly). Also if you are interested you can look at doas which is like sudo but a simpler config file.