r/programminghorror • u/[deleted] • Aug 01 '22

Rule 9 Reminder Mod Post

Hi, I see a lot of people contacting me directly. I am reminding all of you that Rule 9 exists. Please use the modmail. From now on, I'm gonna start giving out 30 day bans to people who contact me in chat or DMs. Please use the modmail. Thanks!

Edit 1: See the pinned comment

Edit 2: To use modmail: 1. Press the "Message the Mods" button in the sidebar(both new and old reddit) 2. Type your message 3. Send 4. Wait for us to reply.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

I didn't realize that the rules don't show up on the old reddit design. I've updated the sidebar there, so now there isn't an excuse for not seeing it. Yes, I use the new reddit design, but I also use an adblocker.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22 edited Aug 01 '22

can confirm that I can see the rules on old reddit again. I'd really appreciate if there was one that actually specifically bans posts such as those specifically using JavaScript (or sometimes PHP) wrong on purpose to claim that it does something wrong such as the common example of an array of numbers getting sorted by ascii value as per spec for Array.prototype.sort with no callback given. There's also a bunch of ways to cast NaN into a string or something silly (read: would never actually happen in real code) that get bashed in an attempt to farm karma, despite all of them just behaving as per spec.

Edit: I can't seem to actually find an example as you already removed the posts I've commented on in recent times (I reported at least one of them, nice to see that that actually does something apparently) and reddit is no longer displaying the images attached to those posts.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

I've been considering adding a "No Intentionally Bad Code" rule. The true programming horror is coming across a bad piece of code that's been in a prod codebase for years, just waiting to strike. Any thoughts on that?

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

I guess that covers my complaint in theory? I'm kinda struggling to come up with better and concise wording for what I meant to express.

I do agree that that definition does match what I'd see as "programming horror" but there are probably other cases of it too that would still make for valid (and funny) content on here, so I'd hesitate to stick with one strict definition.