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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Yeah, don't get me started on the CCC stuff.
Yeah, I just skip those threads. But it does significantly add to the noise here.
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Don't you like the CCC John ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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pkfox wrote: Don't you like the CCC John ?
Have you ever seen me participate in one of those threads?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Have you ever seen me participate in one of those threads?
You should. I did once, my answer of scrotum was apparently wrong.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Too bad, because the correct answer was banana-bending-pedal-pusher. 
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I thought that was what you were calling Dalek Dave for starting the CCC.
This space for rent
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I thought that was what you were calling Dalek Dave for starting the CCC.
Naahhh. Looked at one once, answer had 7 letters, I said scrotum. When the OP asked how I came to that, I said it had 7 letters and I wanted to post scrotum so I did.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Didn't Chris create the first Soapbox forum 12 or so years ago merely to accommodate you and John? 
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"For lazing about and discussing anything in a software developer's life that takes your fancy except programming questions"
i.e. an adequate description of what should go on in the lounge is "jawing", ergo the subject fits in perfectly.
Quizzes are of interest to many developers, as is joking around, as is bacon, as is gossip about the site, as is a moderate level of axe-grinding (preferably on non-political matters, of course, because such discussions rarely remain moderate).
Not everything suits everyone's tastes, but anyone who gets aeriated if absolutely everything is not to their tastes should be given nitro-glycerine, in one form or another*.
* I meant in pill or injection form for their blood pressure, John! Put that down!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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True, but there is a specific forum for Article Writing. Often people post a link here in the Lounge to somewhere else on the site because someone disagreed with them and they want validation. That is what this one smelt like also.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: is rather a perfectly acceptable lounge topic
Even though there is a forum already for that topic, I do agree you could discuss it in the Lounge. However, please do note, not you, nor the OP, nor anyone else actually discussed article quality here, really proving my point that this was more so about getting validation because someone disagreed. It really had nothing to do with having a technical discussion at all. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The motive of the poster being left aside (which you really can't prove without a doubt), this brings a poor quality article to the attention of the regulars, and that's important and valuable.
Far more valuable than a lot of other nonsense that goes on here.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: this brings a poor quality article to the attention of the regulars, and that's important and valuable.
I agree. And there is a proper place for that, not in the Lounge. Now we are going in circles.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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There's always another forum to post anything. But I'm concerned because you said the author shouldn't post it in the lounge. Those are two different things.
The recommended rules are here: Posting rules for The Lounge[^]. Do you find that the post has violated one or more rules mentioned there? If the answer is no, then it's a perfectly acceptable topic for the lounge.
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I guess Rajesh's point is that there is already so much crap being posted and tolerated here, so how is this one any worse.
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Easy, there are lots of people voting for rubbish posted by their friends.
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FaceCode ?
ProjectBook ?
Please suggest the more appropriate new name.
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Project Blue Book.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I just can't believe it got past the approval process. I went and looked at the current list of articles that need approval, and this one isn't any better than those, and they're being massively rejected.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It's all a question of timing. We can only approve or reject the articles we see on the approval list, and our Window may be anything from 8 hours to just a few minutes. The pond life that approves rubbish have the same constraints but in a different time zone.
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I'm in one of the early time zones. There are many times I have voted against approving an article and seen many concurring votes already made. Then guess what: the article appears as approved in an unmodified form. Is it a race to get the required number of approval votes before the item accumulates sufficient against approval? If so it is easy to see how a flood of supporters can override rational analysis.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Maybe they need to raise the bar as far as article approval permissions is concerned...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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You got three upvotes for that.
Just sayin'.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Lucky I've got 3 friends (actually 1 friend, and a young couple locked in the cellar).
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See that little orange flag at the top-right of the article?
Even though the menu partially disappears off the edge of the page, you can still use it to flag the article as "unclear", or "extremely poor quality".
If enough people agree with you, the article will then disappear.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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