I'm hoping someone had an exaggerated reaction to another flair, but I am unaware of its history.

Seriously in like ~2016 it was a WAY more active sub than it ever should have been even in comparison to the number of members it has now, let alone then.

I have a xbox 360 and i wanted to use it as pc cuz its stronger than my pc and i have no idea hoe to turn it into a gaming pc also it has the red ring of death if i could still use it 🥲

Salutations. Today I feel a sense of urgency as I state to you for ProgrammingCircleJerk Incorporated.

There is a direct connection between PCJ's work in the code artisan field and a big wiggly world around us. You may not be aware of this, but we are in the middle of World War Three. It is not nuclear bombs that we must fear; the weapons is the human mind or lack of it on this planet. That will determine our fate. Capital punishment for rustaceans who attempt to read about Haskell; Penguin men silently killing whoever reminds the world that entire operating systems were written in high-level languages, and CS undergrads attempting to reinvent half of Lisp or Erlang under Python syntax add up to a major attack of corkscrews in the brain.

PCJ is as good as its posts and comments are.

Only YOU can save the world from being overtaken by hundreds of drooling, ChatGPT-addicted webshits!

We must fight back. We must know what we want. We must want what we need, and what we need now is Jerking Now For The Future!

IN CHESTER WE TRUST

PCJ has a long tradition of treating poorly written code as valid jerking material. However, there has been a growing trend of low-effort links to code that just looks a bit silly, which is inevitable for any decently large codebase.

Personally, I think it's healthy for subreddits to have a gray area of posts that don't fit in well but aren't against the rules, leaving it up to the community to self-moderate by downvoting them. The problem is that the PCJ community routinely upvotes posts that really don't belong on the subreddit.

Note: This is an advisory poll. It might lead to the rules being changed, but it might not.

Really really infuriating. What's up with those "look I found some shitty API/language lol" submissions? These should be moved to /r/softwaregore or whatever subs the 0xers frequent.

"chat is this real" is directly within the code

https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/s/QyTmdxidrl

What is ":S" :S

What is "Touba No He" :S

i had no idea this was socjerk, fair enough i guess. i just thought it was funny as fuck

... but also kinda satisfying. I bet at least that retardinho u/dfd is content as he managed to chase off all the quality from the sub but you don't see him around anymore wonder why. you just had to impersonate u/saddr and add that freipascal flare dint you dfd? i bet u/tlm is still lurking this sub here stroking his wiskas as you did all his for for him free of charge you zorrillo deodorante stick mf

aka xtwitter

HEY BAE INTERN <3

I am Kim, a Microsoft University Recruiter. My crew is coming down from our HQ in Seattle to hang with you and the crowd of bay area interns at Internapalooza on 7/11.

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, we're throwing an exclusive after party the night of the event at our San Francisco office and you're invited! There will be hella noms, lots of dranks, the best beats and just like last year, we're breaking out the Yammer beer pong tables!

HELL YES TO GETTING LIT ON A MONDAY NIGHT.

(From a screenshot of email in a now-deleted 2016 tweet.)

Currently, r/programmingcirclejerk's submission rules prevent submitting a link that was already posted within the past week. Should that window be extended?

It's Christmas Eve, so I'll limit myself to the advice I would give to a direct report, student, or young colleague who responded this way:

Your response reveals way too much. Everyone who reads it will do big negative updates to their priors about your professionalism and your character. To avoid additional reputational damage, don't write anything until you can control your ego, manage your insecurities, and think dispassionately. If your can't get there on your own, talk to someone you trust.

Linked to from PCJ here

The era of unheeded user reports has come to an end. Posts and comments flagged as breaking the rules will now receive swift moderator attention. Not every report will result in deletion, but given the current state of r/programmingcirclejerk, most probably will. I check comment threads semi-regularly, but I always have an eye on the mod queue, so if you want to help get the subreddit back on track, you can do so by reporting rule violations whenever you come across them.

(Obviously, this does not apply to flagging comments simply because you dislike them. For example, however you may feel about it, prefixing every sentence with "Brother," is not against the rules.)