Why Nothing Is On Topic In CLC...

K

Kenny McCormack

As many of you know, I have frequently observed that nothing is ever "on
topic" in this newsgroup - that is, that everything you could ever possibly
post here is "off topic". I think this is fairly self-evident, but since
there are a lot of nitpickers here, I thought I would provide a formal
proof here.

It follows from the following lemmas:

1) When we say "off topic", what we really mean is "inappropriate". That
is, our goal should be to post things that are appropriate and when we
fail in this, people tell us that we are "off topic". So, as far as I
am concerned, the terms ("off topic" and "inappropriate") are
interchangeable.

2) It is commonly accepted on Usenet (though not in all online fora) that
you are supposed to "do your homework" first before posting. That is,
that if the answer to your question is available in the existing,
publicly available and accepted set of resources (FAQs, web pages,
etc), then you are wasting your own and everyone else's time by posting
it to the newsgroup. Thus, your post is inappropriate.

3) The C standards documents are part of the accepted, publicly available
resources. So, if it is covered by the C standards document(s), then
you could, and should, have saved yourself, and others, the trouble of
posting.

4) It is held in this newsgroup - by royal decree - that anything not
covered in the C standards document is inappropriate. Further, we all
understand that everything in the world is either covered in the C
standards document or it is not (this is true for any set; everything
in the world is either in the set or outside of the set - this is basic
set theory)

Well, now you can see that lemmas 2, 3, and 4 together allow one to
conclude that nothing is appropriate (since everything covered in the
standards document falls under lemma 3 and the rest falls under lemma 4).
And, finally, lemma 1 allows us to conclude that it is also, sadly, "off
topic".

--
(This discussion group is about C, ...)

Wrong. It is only OCCASIONALLY a discussion group
about C; mostly, like most "discussion" groups, it is
off-topic Rorsharch [sic] revelations of the childhood
traumas of the participants...
 
T

Tom St Denis

As many of you know, I have frequently observed that nothing is ever "on
topic" in this newsgroup - that is, that everything you could ever possibly
post here is "off topic".  I think this is fairly self-evident, but since
there are a lot of nitpickers here, I thought I would provide a formal
proof here.

Nothing *you* post is on-topic. Here are some recent threads that
have positive replies and are accepted.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_frm/thread/6ff0538c81e0ec34#

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_frm/thread/33c7c10c2371c7bc#

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_frm/thread/407497c8cae78303#

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_frm/thread/4e499cd0a0804760#

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_frm/thread/bf821d1739d1c311#

etc...

[sorry for not posting the NNTP header identifiers...]

Maybe, just maybe you're a whiny little douchebag who posts nonsense
and has nothing useful to contribute? You really need to get a
hobby. Life is finite, life is short, life is wasted if all you do is
sit and bitch. C isn't your thing, we get it, move on. Find
something you do like, heck even love, do that instead.

Nobody cares that you don't like C. In fact I'm only replying to you
because I'm a) bored at lunchtime and b) trying to dissuade other
lurkers that anything you ever had to say was of any consequence or
validity.

Tom
 

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