About that closed thread in /prog/

i.e. http://bbs.progrider.org/prog/read/1404081453

I posted http://bbs.progrider.org/prog/read/1404073028 with the intent to kick off some language trolling for sport. Is this okay? I have posted these from time to time. People don't complain about it, but if it's not cool I'll stop.

I did find the twitter posts annoying, and just about any of the ones that had links in the title text. I don't usually care about the person they target, but I have mad respect for Tim.

The official word by Admin was:

This isn't reddit or hn. No link only posts.

So I guess it's not ok.

Personally, I find nothing wrong with your thread, because it's an interesting page about a programming topic, and because my issue with Reddit/HN is their ranking/upvoting systems, not the fact they start conversations with links. However, I'm not Admin, who may entirely disagree with me.