FUCKING HATE REDDIT

Okay, let me start with this: FUCK. REDDIT. I really hate that faggot site and
its users. It's really bad and we need to find a solution for it. There's a
steaming pile of shit coming from that webshite, and it certainly isn't just
trolls. It's retards. Redditards, poluting our lovely /prog/. Through the text
I'll use "reddit" but I mean "programming.reddit.com" and not the whole reddit
community, which while still full of BS not relevant to /prog/'s polution.

THE(IR) PROBLEM
If you have an account at reddit or even browse it, and you're not a redditard
yourself you know what I'm talking about; Fucking idiots overusing internet
memes, exactly like what the xkcd faggot does. Doing so, they believe they
belong in some "elite" community of computer experts that like esoteric jokes.
You should understand their mental state by now: "I can't fucking program but I
might make esoteric jokes that apparently computer experts like and maybe, just
maybe others will think I'm an expert myself!". Fucking morons. If one takes a
moment from his day to browse reddit, might like the topics. Let's see what we
got: "How to * with Python *", "A simple * with *", "* in 10 steps", "*: the
revolutionary blog/software/other", "Using * for fun & profit". One might think,
"ah, a nice community. I'll stay a while with them". The other day wakes up only
to find the same topics with changed blog links and titles. If you don't believe
me try it yourself. (yeah, ofcourse there are the retarded "points too, how
could a faggot community live without them? Look: wikipedia, digg, ..)

WHY /prog/ SUCKS
It wasn't long ago that reddit faggots weren't aware of /prog/. I believe, 4-5
months ago /prog/ was clean of all the faggotry & spam. Back then a thread could
make your day, and everyone was contributing content, which ofcourse lead to
funny memes et al, unlike all these self-proclaimed "memes". (notice any simile
with the redditards? self proclaimed computer experts & funny or some shit) If
you are not a /prog/ regular or oldie you might have not noticed, you might
think that it's been like that from the beginning. But it wasn't. Even worse,
you might think that these posts are from trolls, but they are not. Ok, maybe
some are, but trolls are not retarded (as some may think). I'm a big time troll
and I don't think most of you understand trolling.

THE SOLUTION
Okay, now that I bothered you with my text, I'm all ears to see what you got to
say about this issue. I cannot think of a solution to get rid of faggots, but I
don't want to see /prog/ become a cesspool like reddit. I wish the old expert
programmers would come back..

Excuse the lack of bbcode in my post but I have to haste.

Look at the front page. What do you see? Some help threads, some spam threads, some memes, some trolling. Not a single discussion. Not a single thread that will make you think before replying. Most of us don't know any language besides Scheme; but maybe knowing Scheme should be considered a great achievement, since ¼ of us can not program at all? They're here for the memes, the very memes we have harvested, the ones that now thrive on the rich soil provided by spamming and trolling. All potential is thwarted even before it has the opportunity to unfold. Recall countless threads that have been meme-spammed. Good threads they were, something was glittering behind the wave of repeated slogans. But it is always shadowed by the massive amounts of the catch-phrases.

Wake up /prog/, BBCode will not get you a job! Scheme will not get you a job! We achieve absolutely nothing by contributing to this board. Nothing creative, nothing of useful value is conceived in the chaotic entrails of this lax part of the programming communities. Our little kingdom has been frowned upon by the very one we admire; what is left for us to do? Why, oh why cannot you see that this approach is, in fact, unscientific and ultimately destructive? Why cannot you cease the endless repetition of one phrase? Shed the coat of stereotypes and think for yourself instead of scorning Python every time it is mentioned? Provide actual arguments in the few discussions? It is not something hard, people follow this behaviour and enjoy their communities just like us, plus they add productive value, something we are lacking.

Open your eyes, /prog/.

Think.