Reference to this newsgroup

[Cholo Lennon]

Maybe someone "can recognize" a direct (and accurate) reference to this
newsgroup:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/20/cerity_has_7_h8s/


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Cholo Lennon
Bs.As.
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[Chris Vine]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 19:55:57 -0300
Cholo Lennon <cholo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe someone "can recognize" a direct (and accurate) reference to
> this newsgroup:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/20/cerity_has_7_h8s/

That's a good find on your part, and pretty accurate, I would say.

The basic problem is that open access newsgroups make it too easy for
those who are mentally ill or have other personality issues to ease
their pains by inflicting them on others instead. It does seem to have
got a lot worse in the last 6 months though. We have the poster who
seems clearly mentally ill with his "Please read again" postings of
corrections of corrections of corrections of things that no one was
interested in in the first place. And we have our two religious
nutjobs who are unable to respect others, or grasp that if everyone
used this newsgroup for proselytising their favorite brand of religion
it would be turned into an unbearable ocean of shit rather than the
current (only cesspit sized) pile of turd, and at least one of whom is
also dim and suffers from the delusion that he should be "leading" C++
(whatever that may mean).

And we now also seem to have acquired this Jeff guy who cross-posts
random garbage to this newsgroup in classic troll mode. And we have a
different poster (strangely silent for the last 4 or so weeks) who will
join any argument which he doesn't understand and take it to the point
of absurdity, cannot bear not to have the last word and doesn't mind
projecting himself as a complete dickhead.

I used to think that this newsgroup had enough sensible on topic
posting about C++ to survive all this. Now I am not so sure.

But I guess some things can still get better. Some may remember the
"plink" days. That particular individual seems to have completely
reformed.

[Alf P. Steinbach]

On 22.01.2017 23:55, Cholo Lennon wrote:
> Maybe someone "can recognize" a direct (and accurate) reference to this
> newsgroup:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/20/cerity_has_7_h8s/

It's weird that Verity doesn't mention ¹Reddit, or ²Facebook.

I think with her main focus on the working programmer's plight it's
understandable that she doesn't mention in passing the ³death of
comp.std.c++, and later of comp.lang.c++.moderated, and the impact of
that on the standardization process, and thus, on the language itself.

But I would have expected her to mention Reddit. Weird. Even though I'm
not using Reddit myself, other than the occasional glance. :)


Cheers!,

- Alf

Notes:
¹ E.g. <url: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/>
² E.g. <url: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cppEnthusiasts/>. This is a
popular Facebook group started by Prasoon Saurav and mostly moderated by
Matt P. Dziubinski and me; Matt provides a steady stream of interesting
news, for which the only possible explanation is − that he skims it off
the alligator aliens' Earth surveillance records!
³ With the first death of comp.std.c++ I argued, to its moderators and
to my co-moderators of comp.lang.c++.moderated, that it should be
rescued. It got up and running again using the clc++m infra-structure.
The last new thread I see was started by Ian Collins, dated january 2016
and approved by Matt Austern.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.std.c++/RqKItgcFLiw/7jz22gIYBgAJ

[ruben safir]

On 01/23/2017 10:17 AM, Chris Vine wrote:
> I used to think that this newsgroup had enough sensible on topic
> posting about C++ to survive all this. Now I am not so sure.

it is probably still the best venue for C++ expertise and discussion.
the alternative to open access if moderated forum that track you and are
a PIA to use.

This is much better. But good use of /dev/null is needed, at least for me.

Reuvian