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Anonymous2013-01-26 2:52
obviously the brace style used in K&R is the only sensible choice.
I could write a /prog/ overseer that uses machine learning to detect when the advertisers have filled the front page, and have it bump the preceding threads back to where they were, but the spam improves the state of the front page, so I'm not sure what to do.