Good idea, so I permasaged those three in /politics/.

No idea about /prog/, I'm not the mod from that group. From a quick look I see several of those permasaged /prog/ threads being trolled, so maybe a misfire of one permasage too much? If nothing happens after a while, if I were you I would recreate the same thread with a better header like "misleading indentation" instead of "missleading identation".