I know I'm just going to get shit on for this post but fucking really, this place could be so much better. I would like some intelligent and civil discusion with constructive criticism, but I already know that this is going to turn into a shitpost from replies.
The reason /prog/ is shit is because it's only frequented by omnipotent autism lolis and beginner code monkeys. There can be no discussion in such a context, so the lonely nerds just go back to savagery, occasionally contributing seriously.
>>1
It doesn't kill other boards as much as /prog/, since it's a textboard and it's slow.
I wanted to be a mod, but even MrVacBob doesn't care anymore.
>>1
I generally disagree with meta threads like this (since they're mostly pointless), but this is true. But, let's face it, old /prog/ is dead, it's gone forever. The sooner you realize this, the better. Why I still show up here on the rare occasion, I don't know. It's like seeing an old friend who's terminally ill, you want to visit to pay your respects, but it's very difficult to say your final ``goodbye'' and truly move on, and you come visit to see how further degenerated the situation has become. I'm sad to say this is about as far as ``intelligent'', ``constructive criticism'' your thread will receive. I would become as giddy as a schoolboy if this place re-reached a level of quality circa 2006-2009/early 2010, and if it ever does (not going to happen), I'll be quick to become a regular here again.
To quote you-know-who: ``Congratulations, Summer, you've won.''
>>5
There's always been some misguided fool that came to /prog/ thinking that code monkey languages and practices were the best things ever. Until relatively recently, they remained a minority.
>>7 This board is best left unattended.
It's funny that people who used to agree with this statement in the past are now the ones who desire a textboard strictly for programming discussion (such requires moderation). Leaving the board to its devices is an indefensible position (unless, of course, you're part and parcel of new /prog/).
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Anonymous2012-03-30 7:04
>>10
OP here, thank you. This is the kind of reply I was looking for. We need more like you.
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Anonymous2012-03-30 7:10
>>10 old /prog/ is dead, it's gone forever Spoken like a wanna-be ``oldfag''. /prog/ was never good. In the past, there was less spam, sure, but there was more ``do my laughably-easy homework assignment for me'' threads.
You're not fooling anyone when you claim that /prog/ used to be good. Fuck off. >>11
You too. Get out. Go back to Reddit, faggot.
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122012-03-30 7:14
Honestly, if you dislike /prog/ that much, then don't come here. No one's forcing you to be here. But to continue making countless meta-threads (which are just as bad as the rest of the shitposting here) is just idiotic.
If you don't like it, don't come here. Shit's not gonna change. Deal with it, faggots. There are plenty of good newsgroups and 2ch-esque textboards which are better for legitimate programming discussion. If you weren't completely new to the internet you'd realize this.
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Anonymous2012-03-30 7:19
i love both niggers and faggots and none of you autistic nazis will prevent me from farting it out loud
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Anonymous2012-03-30 7:22
Just mail moot, he'll read your mail and probably silently disregard it.
>>12 /prog/ was never good.
I'm not suggesting that old /prog/ was some mysterious promised land of endless milk and honey, but come on, you cannot tell me that it's on the same level intellectually that it was just some 15-17 months ago. To say that /prog/ was never good at all is absurd and presumptuous on its face. People on the imageboards can get away with this argument since all content is quickly purged and there's no past point of reference to put everything into context. In the past, there was less spam, sure, but there was more ``do my laughably-easy homework assignment for me'' threads.
To which I remember those posting such threads being told to ``fuck off'', and told to go to /pr/ and rightly so. /pr/ is still around (http://7chan.org/pr/) and it has ``Understanding C++'' right on the front page. /prog/ used to loathe Sepples and the bullshit that /pr/ masturbates to. You're not fooling anyone when you claim that /prog/ used to be good. Fuck off.
Lead by example. You're not fooling me with the tired old unimaginative ``x was never good'' argument imported from the imageboards. Come up with a better argument than that, or piss off.
I used to be a good poster but then loneliness happened.
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Anonymous2012-03-30 10:26
Consider this: A pack of wild Mods.
Faggot, anal retentive Mods nearing your /prog/ home. Deleting your /prog/ posts. Raping your /prog/ waifus.
And you can't do shit since they're autists. The Mod leader grabs your troll thread and deletes it with his gaming mouse.
The primal Mods finally dominate your /prog/. They post CS101 homework on /prog/ and you are forced to be their slave.
Such is the downfall of /prog/.
The fact you think prog is so bad or all that different, and you actually have to spend so much time dwelling on it and drumming for what you think prog needs (which it doesn't) only serves to its testament as the best board on the net today.
Go make your own board if you want to be a nazi, since you obviously haven't been very long if your shit is seriously in a bunch over such frivolity. That goes to anyone. You were here in 2010? Here's a sarcastic whistle and zero recognition. You were here in 2008? Good for you, you're almost on your way to maturity skip, but why are you still here complaining about the place instead of just moving on?
Nobody from the real early days would seriously be sitting here complaining about the board, as they are not retarded (since they are not underage) and know how to seek out the things they want. There's a reason why vacbob and moot don't care and it is more valid than anything you are trying to pull across, sorry.
/prog/ is self-moderating. I can understand how this is difficult if you've just come from the image boards or another forum, but this is why you lurk and learn how /prog/'s dynamics work. The first sixty pages could be spam, in which case you go to page 61 and find a thread you like. All threads MUST BE REPLIED TO, but after that it's fair game.
>>24
What? This custom of necrobumping some half-decent threads from the past over the deluge of spam is something that I've only seen very recently, and unless it was habitual 5 years ago (and I don't believe you shit), it didn't happen before. The only big wave of necrobumping I saw was done for trolling. Or cleansing? It was near a strong a shitposter plague a year or two ago.
Unless you are saying that there is some secret cabal of posters who only converse in threads buried long ago, keeping them outside the view of shitposters by means of sage. And that just ain't happenin', son, because there are shitposters from Xarn's time hanging around who would bother to use /prog/scrape or similar every so often to thwart any such attempt.
Interesting, but your argument has nothing to do with the issue at all.
The discussion is about making /prog/ better, not about finding another board to visit.
If you find yourself satisfied with /prog/, you actually have no business in this thread, unless you positively want to express your discontent with the idea of enhancing /prog/ (at least in the proposed sense).
>>28
``enhancing'' You better fucking BELIEVE I have a lot of bewilderment with the idea, which if you read my post you should've gotten that that's part of the reason why I posted it.
Seriously bringing in some fag to come in here and have special powers over the board is the worst idea. I mean you seriously don't think it's going to turn into the fucking circlejerk shithole that the imageboards became and that registration boards invariably are? Ok, if you seriously do, all of you who do, tell me some thing and one thing alone: Why, how, and when did you even get here (w4ch/prog) in the first place.
Also not only would it be a shithole where interesting developments get snuffed by deletion, any of the existing threads that don't adhere to the rulefag notion of "DURR THIS ISNT /PRUG/ HURF DURF" would be eradicated with despotist zeal.
Honestly, and I cannot stress this enough, if anyone seriously thinks prog needs more moderation than what it has, they really doesn't understand the principles of w4ch and what makes w4ch what it is. You wanna bring mods in? You might as well just go to reddit, it's exactly that.
>>31
This isn't /newnew/, /newpol/, or /lounge/ so I don't even know what you're trying to refer to. Ignore them and post in other threads? Spammers tend to stop or get stopped eventually.
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Anonymous2012-04-03 18:49
Howsabout a Slashdot-style modding system?
We'd (obviously) need a credibleish system to give only one mod point per luser, to prevent sock-puppetry and shit. But once we get our ducks in a row, we get a collective way of telling off shitposters and spammers, without giving too much power to morons that really need a life. And as a bonus, the original shitpost is still there (under the standard threshold) for anyone who later wonders what the resulting shitstorm was all about.
>>41 >>42
Well apparently it isn't good enough for the sussman and the other guy who want it to be just the two of them rubbing their dicks against a PDP-10 or something, I'm not even sure. All I know is I don't enjoy participating in anything else as much as /prog/.
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