meta thread

This thread may be used to discuss issues relating the /prog/ itself, both old and new.

So, it's been a while since the unfortunate series of events that happened at old /prog/. I think most of the old community has posted here a least a few time, with the exception of cudder and that one person that probably spammed this /prog/ when it was first made, who I believe is still banned from this /prog/. I would like the following things to happen, although they may not be possible:

1. The old /prog/ community, or what is left of it, may continue bbsing using some medium.
2. I would like to be able to use this medium without disclosing my ip address.
3. A little bit of exposure to new people is healthy. While we had a lot of homework threads in old /prog/, some of them ended up being interesting. It's easy for us to run out of things to talk about if there isn't much activity other than us.
4. The connection to /prog/'s entire history helped shape the culture of the board. It would be nice to have that again.
5. Add more wants here.

And some possible ways of getting these things:
1. Write a captcha solver and integrate it into a userscript for old /prog/. Moderation appears dead there again, so things would be like how they were for the most part. Moderation could always come back again though, and it would not be possible to obscure ip addresses, so it's pretty far from anonymous.
2. We all create twitter accounts and tweet.
3. We can create an irc channel.
3. We wait for distbb to be completed. And then we'll have a distributed text board that can self moderate and...well, as cool as that would be, it'll be different from old /prog/. The medium isn't complicated, and replaceable, but the people, the customs, etc, are what make /prog/ what it is.
4. We create facebook accounts and like each other's pictures of fibs code.
5. We go to reddit.
6. Insert more ideas here.

>>12

A small userbase makes it easier to group posts together to form a pseudo identity, which may then eventually be deanonmyzed. But we are much harder targets than redditors and twitterers.

Sounds like a /prog/ challenge. First thoughts: build word frequencies for every post. Then loop over every post and every other post. For each pair of posts construct a link strength based on the word frequencies, then cull under a threshold, then the remaining networks represent identities (i.e. a human poster). You'd need some way of ensuring mutual exclusion too idk.