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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by ridiculous_fish on Saturday February 13, 2021 @05:34PM (#26127632)
Some fun comp.lang.c history:

Dennis Ritchie posted, sharing an extremely early version of a C compiler. Richard Heathfield (well known C book author) jokingly chided Ritchie for posting something off-topic, as it was not part of ANSI C. In typical Usenet fashion, this triggered a huge thread, arguing over the appropriateness of the joke. Even Linus Torvalds got involved.

Apparently Heathfield emailed Ritchie privately to apologize, and Ritchie's response is well known to anyone in clc: "Usenet is a strange place."

Original thread: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.folklore.computers/c/wbzzoyS... (I believe it was crossposted to clc)

Some discussion of the saga: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Dennis_Ritchie

RIP dmr

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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by blt on Saturday February 13, 2021 @06:44PM (#26128167)
This is hilarious. I could see something similar happening on HN today.
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by dirkt on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:44AM (#26130003)
Nerd discussions are always the same, no matter the medium...
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by ineedasername on Saturday February 13, 2021 @07:26PM (#26128454)
It shouldn't matter whether or not it's hilarious. Attempts at humor often fall flat on the internet and are somewhat frowned on per HN guidelines. You're objectively wrong and anyone who agrees should chime in to say so. Disagree? Fine, but come to this thread to tell us why. #s
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by vlovich123 on Saturday February 13, 2021 @08:06PM (#26128695)
Humor is an integral part of the human experience and connecting with someone else. Saying “ban humor” leaves the community very sterile.
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by crispyambulance on Sunday February 14, 2021 @07:59AM (#26132047)
> Saying “ban humor” leaves the community very sterile.

...or makes it even more hilarious.

Because you really can't "ban" humor. A moderator who actually thinks that's possible will soon have humor flying over their head. Even Stackoverflow has humor despite the best efforts of the self-appointed vote-to-close police.

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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by fargle on Monday February 15, 2021 @11:57PM (#26151088)
Poe's law
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by ineedasername on Sunday February 14, 2021 @01:40AM (#26130206)
This is precisely the problem: differing views not just on what is actually humorous, but the role that is should play in conversations, written or otherwise. Better to just avoid it all together #s ::I think we're off to a good start replicating the usenet scenario::
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by Minor49er on Saturday February 13, 2021 @08:44PM (#26128916)
You missed the "#s" at the end of the parent post
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by unkulunkulu on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @02:20AM (#26151681)
What does it mean? (Free bashing a newb opportunity ;)
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by andrewflnr on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:24AM (#26129922)
Re humor on HN: not a problem in the guidelines or in practice. HN just has higher standards for humor, and that's a good thing.
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by gigatexal on Sunday February 14, 2021 @04:36AM (#26130887)
Dang et al would never let it happen.
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by ruined on Sunday February 14, 2021 @05:30AM (#26131110)
Personal attacks are not cool on HN. We ban accounts that post like that. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do it again.
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by gigatexal on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:37AM (#26131501)
Wait what? I was singing HN’s moderators namely Dang. There’s no personal attack here.

If it’s not clear I was saying bannable speech and such would not be tolerated here because of the good moderation.

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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by u801e on Sunday February 14, 2021 @10:44AM (#26133277)
I think this may have been an attempt at humor by ruined where the post they made employs similar phrasing that dang uses when he's informing a user about a violation of the HN guidelines.
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by gigatexal on Sunday February 14, 2021 @10:55AM (#26133362)
Well crap, it went over my head.
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by exikyut on Sunday February 14, 2021 @10:53AM (#26133344)
I think you might be right.
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by ybroze on Sunday February 14, 2021 @03:08AM (#26130518)
That joke is truly, laugh-out-loud funny.
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by andi999 on Saturday February 13, 2021 @11:22PM (#26129665)
Actually the annoying thing here is, that the pointless discussion is achieved, while the link to the source code doesn't work (maybe temporarily overloaded from HN? Maybe dead)
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by badsectoracula on Sunday February 14, 2021 @01:32AM (#26130179)
It is on the Wayback Machine at least:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070223091507/http://www.cs.bell...

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