advocacy trolls

Someone posts a question about 'what is he best programming language to do X' where 'to do X' is often missing.

Someone invariably mentions Lisp, even if not in the first post.

Why the fuck do Lispniks respond with a rebuttal? Samefag trolls will make new threads anyway.

You could be bored. You could be deluded into thinking that someone will learn Lisp by hearing about it on /prog/. You could be deluded into thinking that someone will not learn Lisp because he heard on /prog/ that it sucks.

But most probably it's a single Lispnik troll arguing both sides.

<peculiar> Did anyone ever write captcha software that detects not only non-humans, but also fucktards and trolls? Even fucktards that are very persistent and know how to use google?
<ScriptBaatezu> Hmmm. Domain specific captchas :P

DISCUSS.

Is there any harm in this? Most of these pissing matches only exist because someone mentions Lisp and he says something incorrect about it, then a Lisper ends up answering to correct him. I don't care if anyone here learns a new language like not(be it Lisp or something else), since it's up to the individual to decide what he should learn or not, and wether it would be beneficial or a waste of time, however I did see a couple of /prog/riders actually decide to learn new languages on because of /prog/ posts. You can tell such things when they post new threads asking for newbie help, or sometimes joining an irc channel for help for a specific language, and I notice obscure /prog/ memes slipping by in their conversation, even if I bet most other lurkers in those channels wouldn't realize what that person actually said. It's a funny feeling.