Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Steve Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: This forum has gone to crap Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:32:25 +0000 Organization: Friends of the Galactic Collective Lines: 21 Message-ID: <0WZzRT.b3R.T7oRL@gmail.com> References: <09b9226e-295c-445a-b475-a75eaee2da08@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="451d67796bf6fcf36587c3e0e2ac5633"; logging-data="7303"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ypt/4/DU9tQwgz7zp1Rbf" User-Agent: NN 6.4.3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:IFQFkZC0rH+0P2AsAktZnBkC++c= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:68448 On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 04:49:26PM -0700, Chad wrote: > I remember the first time I read this forum was when I was an undergrad at UW Madison back in the stone age. This place was dominated by knowledgeable people that gave eloquent responses. Over the years, a lot of these people disappeared, and I their place showed up some not so bright people who chose to make this place their home. > > And now we have some dipshits that can barely form a coherent English sentence. What's next? I guess the only thing that could be sucking is if we get people that use Internet slang. The problems with this newsgroup does not fully reduce to those who are functionally illterate in the English language. IMNSHO, the largest threat to Usenet are the fucking Creationists, making over the Internet in their God's image -- which is to say a playground for corrupt, lying, hypocritical bigots. These are most often people who do not make their deviant ideology explicit (we wouldn't understand), and may have enough formal eduation to pass themselves off as 'learned', at least superficially. But their religious extremism underpins their values and they tend to place themselves above mere civil considerations. After all, they are special people and not dirty commoners who are unable to fully appreciate The Trvth. Some of you will imagine I am speaking of Rick Hodgin but you would be wrong. Rick is a distraction. Regards, Steve Thompson -- "If I had a nickel for every time some idiot called me about a computer problem that turned out to be user error, I would be able to retire and spend the rest of my days cultivating clues in my backyard hillside garden." -- MysteryDog in 24hoursupport.helpdesk.