So Alf P. Steinbach's shitty little "C++ Enthusiasts" Facebook group...

[Mr Flibble]

... bans me because I accidentally posted a Killers lyric to it rather then to my main feed by mistake but didn't remove it quick enough.

Fucktards.

Reddit is shit too.

Fucktards.

/Flibble

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"I'd say, bone cancer in children? What's that about?" Fry replied.
"How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery that is not our fault. It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil."
"Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain. That's what I would say."

[Mr Flibble]

On 11/05/2020 00:36, Mr Flibble wrote:
> ... bans me because I accidentally posted a Killers lyric to it rather then to my main feed by mistake but didn't remove it quick enough.
>
> Fucktards.
>
> Reddit is shit too.
>
> Fucktards.
>
> /Flibble

I will resist the C++ mafiosi as they try to protect their bedded in positions built on sand! :D

Where's North from here?

[Alf P. Steinbach]

On 11.05.2020 01:36, Mr Flibble wrote:
> ... bans me because I accidentally posted a Killers lyric to it rather
> then to my main feed by mistake but didn't remove it quick enough.
>
> Fucktards.
>
> Reddit is shit too.
>
> Fucktards.

I'm not the admin who blocked you, but I can comment in general.

The posting that got you blocked was apparently a link to a YouTube
video with Kenny Rogers, after a history of some (just a few) off topic
postings among about equally many accepted ones. However, a number of
other postings were deleted in the same action. I can't see what those
were about but likely they were previously accepted postings removed
automatically by Facebook: the Facebook machinery is not ideal.

- - -

The C++ Enthusiasts group was started by Prasoon Suarav, and is now
about 9000 members with three admins. I started a sister group about the
in-practice, as a place to direct one particular beginner who flooded
Enthusiasts with less generally interesting postings, and that group is
now roughly 11 500 members. You are not blocked there and would be a
welcome new member, in particular in view of your GUI work.

In the Enthusiasts group I'm an admin by invitation, and so are the
other admins Matt P. Dziubinski and (not active) Andrew Koenig.

Similarly, earlier in comp.lang.c++.moderated I was a moderator by
invitation. So, just as comp.lang.c++.moderated was not my Usenet group,
C++ Enthusiasts is not my Facebook group, but the sister group is still
mine since I haven't invited other admins.

- - -

A great many people share your sentiment about the proportion of ungood
people, trolls, as admins and regulars in C++ forums. For example, a few
days ago I subscribed to a Facebook group called Programming Jokes, and
I immediately saw a number of jokes about Stack Overflow. One went like:

A short story of Stack Overflow user.
Asked a question (graphic of happy)
Got idiot title with 16 downvotes in 6 min (graphic of despair)

So, it's common.

In fact C++ Enthusiasts was started because Prasoon was very unhappy
with the trolling and moderation at Stack Overflow. Someone else, here
in clc++, once described the Stack Overflow situation as the inmates
having taken over the asylum. Anonymous mods is not a good sign.

And from my own experience trolls also have a free rein at Reddit,
though they're much less active there than on Stack Overflow.

However, C++ Enthusiasts is clean of trolling.

And I guess that's because like comp.lang.c++.moderated in its time, C++
Enthusiasts is a non-commercial group with a small number of admins, who
are admins by invitation only.


- Alf

[Mr Flibble]

On 11/05/2020 12:04, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> On 11.05.2020 01:36, Mr Flibble wrote:
>> ... bans me because I accidentally posted a Killers lyric to it rather then to my main feed by mistake but didn't remove it quick enough.
>>
>> Fucktards.
>>
>> Reddit is shit too.
>>
>> Fucktards.
>
> I'm not the admin who blocked you, but I can comment in general.
>
> The posting that got you blocked was apparently a link to a YouTube video with Kenny Rogers, after a history of some (just a few) off topic postings among about equally many accepted ones. However, a number of other postings were deleted in the same action. I can't see what those were about but likely they were previously accepted postings removed automatically by Facebook: the Facebook machinery is not ideal.
>
>   - - -
>
> The C++ Enthusiasts group was started by Prasoon Suarav, and is now about 9000 members with three admins. I started a sister group about the in-practice, as a place to direct one particular beginner who flooded Enthusiasts with less generally interesting postings, and that group is now roughly 11 500 members. You are not blocked there and would be a welcome new member, in particular in view of your GUI work.

Could you post a link to that group please Alf?

[Alf P. Steinbach]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cppInPracticeQuestions/

- Alf