Tonight I'm lurking on 4chan... on /b/, on /s/ (I love /s/), and so on... and it seems that 4chan sucks a lot in this very moment. So I got here on /prog/ ...and geez, it sucks as well. All this place is full of garbage, nonsense and copypasta. Copypasta. More copypasta. There seems to be nothing else. After months I follow your "programming" discussion you are still arguing on what's the best programming language and asking each other wether you read your fucking SICP.
tl;dr I hate you bitches.
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Anonymous2009-04-13 22:24
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: /prog/ is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered /prog/ community when IDC confirmed that /prog/'s trolling share has risen yet again, now up to over 90 percent of all posts. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that YHBT, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. /prog/ is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent bout of ENTERPISE QUALITY THREADS.
You don't need to be a Cudder to predict /prog/'s future. The hand writing is on the wall: /prog/ faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for /prog/ because /prog/ is dying. Things are looking very bad for /prog/. As many of us are already aware, /prog/ continues gain trolls. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
SICP readers are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its EXPERT PROGRAMMERS. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time /prog/ VIP Xarn and Christopher only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: /prog/ is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
/prog/ moderator MrVacBob states that there are 7000 trolls at /lounge/. How many /vip/ trolls are there? Let's see. The number of /lounge/ versus /vip/ posts on 4chan BBS is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 /vip/ trolls. /anime/ trolls on 4chan BBS are about half of the volume of /lounge/ trolls. Therefore there are about 700 trolls on /anime/. A recent article put /prog/ at about 80 percent of the trolls on 4chan BBS. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 /prog/ trolls. This is consistent with the poor quality of /prog/ posts.
Due to the troubles of /prog/, abysmal posts and so on, 6.001 stopped using SICP and was taken over by the Anti Cudder who prefers FIOC. Now SICP is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that /prog/ has steadily declined in discussing programming related material. /prog/ is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If /prog/ is to survive at all it will be among curious /b/tards and hardcore trolls. /prog/ continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save /prog/ from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, /prog/ is dead.