What is this retardedness?

WTF? I came to /prog/ expecting to see programmers discussing programming, maybe some newbs asking questions, some codes, some cool shit. But all I see is some retarded spam and retarded inside jokes (puddi? what is that?), and some children who think they're cool or funny by spamming "zomg lol puddi!1@!11@!" over and over along with retarded formatting "tricks" for 14-year-olds.

Maybe I got the wrong idea about this culture from a first superficial glance. But honestly I don't feel like lurking for a long time if it's gonna be worthless. Maybe some of the serious people here would be generous and tell me what's going on, and give me a brief idea about the place?

I appreciate it.

Spammers gonna spam, but I don't really care. So save your breath.

>>21
There isn't one.
Bold: [b]test[/b] -> test
Underline: [u]test[/u] -> test
Italic: [i]test[/i] -> test
Overline: [o]test[/o] -> test
Strike: [s]test[/s] -> test
Superscript: [sup]test[/sup] -> ^test
Subscript: [sub]test[/sub] -> _test
Monospace: [m]test[/m] -> test
Ascii Art (more Shift-JIS art): [aa]test[/aa] -> test
Spoiler: [spoiler]test[/spoiler] -> test
Code: [code]int main(void) { for(;;); return 0;}[/code] -> int main(void) { for(;;); return 0;}

Quote: >SPACEtext ->
text

Multiline quote: > text[br]text[br]text ->
text
text
text
or > text[o]
more
text[/o]

text
more
text

They are nestable.