/prog/ etiquette


although we love to complain about spam/shit posts, i believe
that given the ε-amount of moderation that goes on here we're
not doing too badly.

writing a bot to destroy /prog/ would be about 5 minutes of
work (2 minutes in racket), yet /prog/ seems to survive and
thrive. I am curious to find out why this is.

MrVacBob-kun-sama shelters us.

>>1
writing a bot to destroy /prog/ would be about 5 minutes of
work (2 minutes in racket)
Everyone has already done one. (me included, 2 minutes in racket)

/prog/ lives by the power of sage, ^Abstract_Bullshite and by generous concession of The Sussman.

>>3
writing a bot to destroy /prog/ would be about 5 minutes of
work (2 minutes in racket)

>>3
why does everybody always sage?
i know what it does, but what's the point?

>>5
• It's polite.
• Threads in /prog/ don't get deleted, there's no reason to bump a thread.
• New threads will always be on top, old threads progressively go out of the frontpage.
• It maintains the layout of the frontpage, when you refresh the page, you're more likely to find a thread were it was before.
• You can bump a thread without getting flamed, but you need a good reason, like ``the frontpage was full of spam''.

>>6
I'M ACTUALLY PRETTY OKAY WITH YOU HELPING HIM IN THIS PARTICULAR INSTANCE!!!

>>7
>>6
DO HELP HIM!!!

This thread is now about reasons to stop using web browsers in favor of homebrew /prog/ interfaces:

• it's easier to set /prog/ up to ignore posts without a valid hashcash.

^{_{hashcash token: 1:20:110117:/prog/::4OLT3hI8EiL1gq/c:000000000004qSz}}

>>9
• it's easier to set /prog/ up to ignore posts without a valid JSB-1 signature and auto reply to hashcash-posts to fuck off.

Cons:
("• No BBCode support" . "• No formatting support whatsoever (for CLI interfaces)")

>>5
Hot discussions are taking place in very old saged threads so that the board looks empty for newcomers. Actually, some kind of darknet was created by Lisp geniuses, using the public /prog/ for data persistence. You can access it but you'll have to code a tool to hash your messages and implement SexpCode.

>>5
• It makes it harder to find new posts.
• It helps shitposting and spam float to the top.
• It increases the chance of active threads falling off the front page.
• It boosts the ``It's polite to sage in /prog/'' troll's ego.
• It marks you as new here.

>>12
• It helps shitposting and spam float to the top.
• It increases the chance of active threads falling off the front page.
see >>6
• You can bump a thread without getting flamed, but you need a good reason, like ``the frontpage was full of spam''.
I never complain when a good thread is bumped, I always bump interesting threads, sage when shitposting, save active threads. But there must be a reason, we're not /b/, we don't get 100k posts per second.

>>13
Fuck, I failed my quotes.

>>14

As long as the message gets through it doesn't matter.

>>15
Little descriptivist dipshit.

/prog/ has not survived or thrived. There is a tiny minority of serious posters who have remained after this place got taken over by trolls a while back. /prog/ is nothing like it once was and unless we make an a private alternative board, it will eventually die out

>>17
I'm actually kind of fond of this place, when there is actual discussion and the occasional troll. What kind of posts would foster the spirit of old /prog/?.

What kind of posts would foster the spirit of old /prog/
how about serious posts (duuuuur) and less shit posts (huuuuur)

the only way that will happen is if we switch to a private moderated forum

>>19
I'd be just fine with it if you went ahead and switched already.

>>17
Maybe you should start and die out, un-VIP one.

/prog/ is like a big party and everyone is autistic.

>>17
the main problem is that moderators usually lose interest after
some time, after which the abandoned boards degenerate. i don't
think another board is going to solve this mess (unless cudder
comes back with a working rechan, in which case i'll move
instantly of course)...

personally i have created local mirrors for the main boards:
every day at 9AM my scripts download all new posts and present
them to me. i then personally go through every post and rate
them on a scale of 0-9 before they go into my database. this
takes me about 40 minutes.

all traffic in the house is routed through a proxy which
removes posts with a score below 5. using this system, i am
effectively able to moderate the boards for my roommates and
they love me for it.

if you want i can give you access to this proxy, i can guarantee
that it will drastically improve your /prog/ experience.

>>18
I'm actually kind of fond of this place, when there is actual discussion and the occasional troll.
You understood /prog/.

if you want i can give you access to this proxy, i can guarantee
that it will drastically improve your /prog/ experience.
why dont you give EVERYONE the address, then both wishes we be preserved, we will have a moderated forum and the original /prog/ will be maintained for shitposters to troll on

>>24
I don't have the resources to host a public proxy for all of
/prog/, however if you are a truly dedicated Expert Programmer
you can decrypt the code below to reveal my IP. I don't have a
static IP though, so this will stop working after some time.

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>>25
what is it with you goddamn /g/-fuckers and your Base64 bullshit? Go Away already.

>>26
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>>25
I fucking hate you.

>>27
Q2hva2Ugb24gYSBjdWRkZXIu

>>25,27,29
This poster is Tumor-complete

>>26

They think it's really 31337 or something like that, obviously the addition of one completely unnecessary layer of complexity is the mark of a horrible programmer.

>>25
That was profusely entertaining.

>>25
That's pretty swell, br-- GO FUCK YOURSELF WITH A CACTUS

>>11
I don't believe you.

check 'em