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It's silly semantics all the way down!

None of this stuff is rigidly defined because it's pointless to do so, generally.

Do you mean an organized group of users who are downvoting? If so, I haven't seen evidence of such a group on HN. There is a strong reaction by many community members to what's perceived as uncivil behavior, as the HN community as a whole values the quality of the forum.

By "mod", I mean any privileged user.

The HN mods are dang and sctb. They are indeed privileged users, as they have the ability, among other things, to ban users. They've also got a lot of responsibility, which they take very seriously and with — from my perspective — great care.

You're admittedly new to participating on HN (or at least this is a new account). Please take some time to reflect on the community reactions to your comments, and how your personal views of civility and substantiveness may differ from those of the community as a whole. This goes as well for assumptions of how the community works and behaves. This isn't meant as a value judgement of your views, just that they appear to differ, if at least a little. After all, this is the community you'd like to participate in. You can also observe how others behave on the site to better understand community standards.

Please take this in the spirit it's intended. As one HN user to another, I'd like for you to have a positive experience as well as contribute constructively to HN.

If you have questions that aren't answered by the guidelines and FAQ, you can contact the mods by email (see the contact link in the footer). I've also found general search engines (e.g., DuckDuckGo, Google) and the HN search tool (in the footer) very useful to find answers to many questions I've had about the HN community.

Because there is no standard packaging format between distributions, the best people can do is release a deb that may or may not work on either debian or ubuntu. Or an RPM that may or may not work on RH/Fedora. Or a tar.gz that will contain sometimes source code, sometimes a binary, and if it has source code there's no clear way to compile it, if it has a binary there's no clear way to install it.

So instead, curl sh.

It's pretty ridiculous that it's still a problem, tbh. What we need is somebody with the right political clout at either RH or Debian to sit down with devs of the other, come up with a decently generic solution that fits both systems and a backwards compatibility policy. It doesn't have to be perfect nor the best, it just has to be good enough to support the use cases of most Linux distros.

Once both Debian and Fedora support it, Ubuntu (and its many flavors) and Red Hat will follow. And if it's a generic enough system, with a pluggable-enough backwards compatibility policy, it's not unlikely for it to be adopted in more minor distros. If it's sold correctly, distros will gladly adopt it - we've all been waiting for this a long time.

if you're talking "project" in the Atom / Sublime / Eclipse sense of the word then a "project" is just a folder. If that's what you mean by "project" then yes, you can create folders in a text-based ui, and you've been able to do so since the dawn of unix, and basically every editor out there has an easy way to either create a folder with some clicks or enable direct access to the underlying shell to create one.