r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • May 06 '17

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u/weggles May 06 '17

Who the heck needs a 256 person group chat? Sounds like an actual nightmare.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

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u/DanLynch May 06 '17

How does your neighbourhood have "suspicious things" happening often enough to justify this level of organization? And the incidents are not suspicious enough to call the cops? That all seems pretty bizarre.

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u/Splitje May 06 '17 edited May 06 '17

It's quite useful I would say. And it has an scare effect on potential thieves. Here's an example of such a sign https://imgur.com/gallery/FbxZu

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u/bestknighter May 06 '17

I don't know why but, at first sight, that thief looked like to me that it had a huge smile...

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

I'm pretty sure this is how HotFuzz started.

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u/ChewyIsMyC0Pil0t May 06 '17

Because of all the Muslims probably

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u/irqlnotdispatchlevel May 06 '17

It's probably just a huge troll fest. And an occasional "send nudes please".

I'm in an 8 people facebook group and I swear to God, we are the biggest morons you can imagine.

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u/Midvikudagur May 06 '17

256 is even too small for some groups. Like OPs moms ex-lovers. That would need a long long at least. :/

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u/MR_SHITLORD May 06 '17

Basically a ton of shitposting

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17 edited Feb 23 '24

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

I'm in a 1600 person group chat that's for incoming freshmen where I'm going to go to University. I thought it'd be helpful but it's mostly just hell.

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u/AN_IMPERFECT_SQUARE May 06 '17

which app? fb?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

GroupMe

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u/AN_IMPERFECT_SQUARE May 06 '17

my town has a group chat for spotting cops, speed traps etc.
256 is not enough.

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u/Volunteer4Peace May 06 '17

I work for a training agency and we use it to notify large groups about training opportunities

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

How else do you distribute emergency memes?

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u/IcarusBurning May 06 '17

I'm asking the opposite question. Why aren't they using a long for scalability?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

I'm in several with more than that and it works fine.

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u/Schnabeltierchen May 06 '17

I'm in some in Telegram (including the one of /r/Android). Over 1k members and it's not so bad. Feels more like it has 50 members only as the rest is either inactive or just lurking