>>550
I can't say I completely speak on the behalf of
/prog/. But I wrote how I'm experiencing
/prog/.
>>551
Get the fuck out.
The whole message. Right below.
Dear Ms. Leah Culver
I'm writing to you on behalf a funny, but serious issue. Please consider reading this e-mail and please read it when you have time and energy to do so. If you have that, please continue reading :).
A little about myself. I'm an anonymous poster from the one of the biggest english BBS and imageboard
www.4chan.org, simply known as ``4chan". You can find more about 4chan on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan. 4chan contains quite a few imageboards, where most of them focus on mature and random content/pictures. Most of the content is funny, but there is also bizzare, stupid, and straight outrageous content. It has made some of the most know content on the Internet and I'm sure you have heard about them ( such as the Rickroll ). Please, also take this as a warning, if you at some point going to access one of the imageboards. The imageboard /b/ - Random can contain disturbing images.
But, I'm not here to set focus on the imageboard, as there is enough focus on it already. The purpose of this mail is draw your attention to the BBS-boards 4chan has. One of the BBS I'm mostly on is of course, programming board. And as the name indicates, the board it called ``Programming" or with the directory ``/prog/ - Programming". Most of the time /prog/-posters refer the board simply as ``/prog/".
The /prog/-board was largely meant for serious discussion on programming, but also help with construction of programs, discussion of computer theory and the art of programming. Although gradualy, over the years, the board has decayed and rotten to a board that is mostly filled with trolls (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet) ), general idiocy and just stupid people who ask questions like "OMG HOW DO I HAX MYSPACE??? ROFLMAO XD". Although in the recent time, another matter has caught their attention. As you are hopefully reading this e-mail you have probably realized that the matter is you.
To make it simple, there is a thread about you at
http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1213021438 . This is one of the most popular threads in /prog/ so far. Please note that most of the posters are trolls and some of these troll are virgins and lack discipline. Please do not take most of the post posted there seriously.
On the other hand, a group of serious posters, including me, find this thread irrelivant, annoying and/or discriminating. We try to sage ( in english: to lower ) the thread without great success. But as you seem to be popular, please consider doing something.
Please, post in the thread and tell the people to move on, become a little more serious in the programming discussion and let the thread die. As reading the thread I have discovered that some of the people posting in the thread also lack serious communication and contact with the opposite gender and lack the guts to write you a simple e-mail, e.g. this. If you choose not to post in the thread, please consider atleast answering this e-mail, so I can forward it to the board. A reply as soon as possible would be great.
If you are going to post in the thread, please create a secure tripcode, so we can indentify you as Leah Culver and not as a troll or another poster. A secure tripcode is a form of authentication. Please read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripcode .
The format of a tripcode is as follow [your name or nickname]##[the code you want to use]
The output is as follows [your name or nickname]!![a hash]
For example if I wrote the following in the name field: sage##sage
The output name and hash would be: sage!!SOJTvLiutsP
This can only be used in the name field. The rest of the fields are obvious.
If you have read this mail, then I thank you for your time. I hope that you will do something about this issue and again don't take the thread too seriously.
Sincerely, Anonymous from the 4chan.org BBS-board, /prog/ - Programming.