I remember the days when devrant was young and innocent. Before it was touch by the cynicism, flame baiting, and S.O. love nuts. Back when we poked fun at php as a language but not those who use it. Before +1 was improved to ++. Stickers were only 10, and the only way to get a ball was having 100 on one rant even though it felt like there might only be 150 users. Before When we rejoiced in each others successes and mourned in each other so dev related pains. Back in the good old days of.... A few months ago.

I still think it's quite small (foreseeing the future I mean)

@pretz but the flame baiting, questions that can be answered from the first page on Google, and work requirement has already begun. We need a report option (Google it first/this isn't stack overflow) and (we are not LinkedIn)

True af, that was my first impression too

true. I am here to read rants and cheer myself up and sometimes rant about my work. not to get pissed off by some edgy people flame baiting and mocking people.

I don't really agree. One rant about about a language doesn't constitute a flame baiting problem IMO. I want people to understand you're not going to agree with every rant and you're not going to like every rant. That's free speech/expression.

Are you referring to the one about PHP? I didn't agree with it but that doesn't mean I'm going to let it upset me. If I don't like a rant I scroll past it and read a different one.

I'm just curious, would people rather we heavily moderate to the point where only rants I agree with are allowed? That's no fun IMO.

@dfox I don't thinks a major problem I just think darkness slowly corrupts everything good (usually though our beloved friend sarcam).

@brettmoan agreed, but I think there's a major difference between a major community-wide change and one person posting a questionable rant that I legitimately don't think they were posting to troll or "flame bait", especially when looking at their other rants, none of which contained anything even slightly questionable. I think they just felt that way and ranted about it.

@dfox I would have just responded with "I ain't got time to moderate everything". There's no way you'd even be able to keep up. You'd have to create a moderator role. Then pick mods. Then the battle between users and mods would ensue. Then we'd have another shitty forum site. Then come the spam bots. Mods get overloaded and quit. New mods who don't know the lay of the land come in. Things get out of control. It's just chaos.

Shit, I think I'm down in the weeds.

@codeclod aka reddit?

@dfox I was also referring to in increase in posts asking for technical related help, especially when they want people to solve their problem for them, or when the answer is only a Google away