/prog/ metadiscussion

I think /prog/ is slipping, a lot.

Recently theres been a lot of talk about HTML, Java, plz help me hack, BB-fucking-code! and worse people in fucking reddit are linking to us.
This is not acceptable, there are encrption and compression threads getting ignored while people discuss PHP in detail.

Fucking "memes" starting to take over like "IM AN EXPERT CODER" or "IVE READ SICP", "PYTHON HAS THE FORCED INDENTATION OF CODE" and this shit, come on grow the fuck up.

Can you really live with yourselves after letting /prog/ get like this?
Its time to fucking do somthing, we need less of this shit and more worthwhile discussion about type inference and compilers/interpreters and stuff.

>>21
>Usenet has REALLY annoying trolls
There is ID information in a Usenet post unlike "anonymous". I wrote my own NNTP downloader so I see the entire header and use grep -v as my killfile mechanism. (Kill file is what original UNIX news readers use to filter out trolls. "Welcome to my kill file" used to be a common retort.)

>>15 >>24
>wikiwikiweb...rot13.com
Useful tidbits like those are the frayed thread that tie me to the mostly crap pile that is /prog/.

>>26
>...without even topical variation...
Signed. I read back through the archived threads one day. Perl vs Python over and over and over, with little useful technical information. Much more students here than programmers.

>>29
>"...doody-for-brains indurrviduals ...Give me moderator powers"
No.