Sure! Design is something I've no real clue about, so any input there would be much appreciated. Do you happen to know a link or book you can recommend on this?

What sort of things do you want to see on v/programming?

Philosophy and the Community

1. I want /v/programming to be a general hub on programming related talk. It shall not be dedicated to specific programming languages.
2. The only language restriction in this subvoat shall be the English language though. It's awesome if you write a well-written article on how to do something interesting in another language, but I want this place to be accessible for everyone.
3. I'll remove anything that discourages people from learning. Stupid shit like "Wow ur so dumb u didn't even kno dat?!". We've all been there. We should do the opposite: If someone finds out something you took for granted, tell that user about related things (s)he may also be interested in!
4. We all think that trolling is funny sometimes. But if it gets too much, I'll remove the comment, okay? If you're a serial offender, I think that banning the user is quite funny too. Programmers have humor. Some jokes are perfectly fine by me, and being laid back is fine too as long the discussion is productive in general. If there's a circle jerk in a thread, I'll leave it be as long others won't be too annoyed by it (Please report these!).

Content I want to see

1. Educational content. This one's hard to find a balance between "Is not too obvious but well known so ok" and "Has been done to death and should be put somewhere else". An article showing off what crazy things you can do by abusing Hashes with blocks and all in ruby is ok. If you post an article stating that you can do { foo: 123 } in ruby, then I'd rather want to see that somewhere else.
2. Technology. We all like the new stuff coming out. A new framework which lets you write a webchat in 3 lines of code? Bring it on! (But please don't repost D:)

Content I don't want to see (too often)

1. "My program broke, please help". I think that /v/programming is a general hub on programming in general, and thus there are better forums on the internet for these questions. I will however not remove these posts as long they don't get too much, as they' can still be educational.
2. Memes. Please no. We can have a separate subvoat for that. I'd probably subscribe to it! But /v/programming is not the place for it. Will be removed on sight.
3. Advertising job offers, companies, discounts, etc. "FooBar Corp is hiring in Montreal!" Nice for them! Will be removed on sight though.
4. Clickbait titles. Yes, I knew about these 10 facts, and no, fact 4 didn't blow my mind. Has a good chance of being removed.

Are you going to do anything to stop blog spam?

The distinction is not always easy. Clickbait titles may end up being removed. If the article is just talking about this cool new product by some company, then I count that as advertisement and will remove it. But I'll also say that I probably won't read everything. Reporting such submissions is appreciated.

What about a wiki or post or something for a FAQ?

Good idea, haven't thought anything about it yet. I think that this is a perfect thing to be done by the community with the moderators making sure it's useful information. As of yet, I think some links on "how to start programming" would be helpful, but I don't know any good articles nor books on that. Though I'd appreciate a wide range of them: Yes, a beginner can learn C. No, it's not too complicated. If you repeatedly tell them that it is, they'll of course never use it. Let them judge themselves! Other than that, I'm tbh clueless on this one.

Convenience reply for you to see the post in your inbox.

I don't really read a lot of papers, I do like to watch talks though. In general, I can recommend the archive of the Chaos Communication Congress. I was up until recently working at a telecommunications provider, and that's the reason I'd like to recommend this talk on SS7. This talk is about CS students in north korea. A talk I enjoyed few days ago was about the Volt Framework.

Edit: Right now I don't have the permission to make someone a moderator. Or I'm too stupid to find the button. Sent Atko a message, may take a while though

In fact I have, though I didn't know its name. I've yet to find a real world requirement where a program should actually dump itself. I mean where it's supposed to do that, not a wrongly configured Apache server blurting out business secrets ;)

I think weekly -> monthly Q&A might be a good idea. It's all really wash until Voat starts getting more traffic IMO. What sort of threads are you asking yourself if they should be allowed?

I'm just getting into it, and right now it's not much work at all to be honest. The community pretty much moderates itself already.

I've never moderated a big forum anywhere, and ended up in here more by accident than anything else; I've no idea how much work a fifty-fold increase of the userbase affects the needed moderation. But, I'm already trying to get full hold on this subvoat so I can manage moderators. What's annoying though is that voats moderation tools are not only bad (Like at reddit), they're non-existant. Mod mail? It's a stub. Want to report something? Good luck finding the button (There's none), and if you want to be helpful and thus report by mod mail, well, still a stub. If you now think "Well .. then let me message one of the mods", you have a chance of 87.5% of choosing a inactive moderator from the moderator list. How fucked up is that?

I thought about building a small bot, which goes through all comments and looks for "!report" as crude work-a-round. Well, as voat is currently "under attack", I can't write a HTML parsing one without having a real browser, and as there's no real API I can't use that one either.

I conclude: I try to get hold of the subverse (But no idea if Atko will read my message), the moderation work is currently perfectly doable, and the mod tools are not there.

Also, maybe add some links to related subverses?

Sure, I'd need to compile a short list somehow. Thinking of /v/algorithms, /v/learnprogramming or /v/noobprogramming (Those guys should probably merge?) and /v/techcareerquestions. Any other ideas?

I can help moderate. I am the moderator of /v/algorithms

Awesome! I'd send you a invite if I had a button to do so. I was wondering if I should post to /v/subverserequest. I'm a mod, but then, I don't seem to have all permissions either.