I'd say the mod takes it too seriously for it to be a troll community. It certainly is a trap, whatever that means.
I'm not exactly clueless. My .zip account is new but I've been browsing for a while.
Background is, I had already seen some memes from that community, didn't think much of it except "that's unusual for lemmy but whatever".
But more notable, I had read OP's opinion earlier that "real gamers play on Windows" on a post from another com. Whatever "real gamers" means.
So I decided to answer that post that poped up on my all feed and that's all. I had no idea the com was so strict, and OP was the mod, and that saying windows has been shittier than linux for me lately is being a "Linux Evangelist". But cool, I guess I found myself a new label.

Honestly that last part is based.

macOS has always been a BSD distro. macOS (and Mac OS X before it) is rebranded NeXTSTEP— the only thing of real value to come out of NeXT, Inc, other than Objective-C and Steve Jobs. Oh, and Jonny Ive, of course.

The original Macintosh System Software 1 - 9 was not, but ever since Apple acquired NeXT, Inc… NeXTSTEP (a variant of BSD) was adapted to become Mac OS X (RIP Rhapsody), and when Mac OS X debuted, it was BSD all the way and has been ever since.

Thanks to Apple, via Mac OS X, now macOS, BSD is now 1/3 of the consumer operating system base in North America. 😊

And when they’re tired of paying for overpriced hardware? They’re not going back to windows… as much as you may hate Apple… That’s a long-term win for *nix.

Ah, you're a debate bro. ESH.

Did I give some indication that this was anything besides my opinion?

Sure. If people want dogs and cats together what's wrong with that?

If you want to run a forum as your private fiefdom then go do it somewhere private. Or maybe you should just write a blog if you just want people to read your opinions. Putting your community on the fediverse or other public platforms is by definition inviting the userbase to interact with, create, and curate your community. At that point it's not your private creation anymore and it's unreasonable to treat it that way.

I don’t know why admins allow troll communities to persist, when all they do is create more hassle for them. At least there aren’t very many of these.

Less tennis and more the anti-golf homeowners federation whose windows have gotten smashed in a couple times too much.

I think you are missing the point about all/new.

IMO this is more about the desires of the community members than the mod themselves.

In the example above. The community only wants dog photos. The larger Lemmy community browsing all/new upvotes shouldn't override the rules of the community itself. On Lemmy, communities decide rules, not mods.