Cash Curtis II:
Quote: " ur enginnne suxxorfss minne iz likke 12 ichnes lonnnger"
Lol!!
A post on TGPF like that would have got your post deleted as we only allow plain English.
Jeff Miller:
We are currently discussing which of the boards to make visible to non-registered visitors to the site. I agree with you that this information shouldn't be kept secret.
Forums, like private member clubs have rules of behaviour and when you join, you have to conform to them. The plain fact of the matter is that on here there are a lot of users who abuse the forums and to many people it's just annoying.
Look on here and see how many posts ask a question that has been answered countless times before - just because the poster can't be bothered to do a search.
Crikey, I've answered questions before and seen the same question asked again the following day while the thread I posted to is only a couple of lines down on the same page!
Newbies have to learn I know, but why bother actually reading the help files or attempting to solve something yourself when you can come onto a forum like this and ask "How do you clear the screen"?
And how many times does a perfectly reasonable thread get ruined by some wally off-topic posting or inserting some abuse or pathetic comment?
Take Stickies. How many here can say they bother reading them? They contain rules for posting and on the whole they are just ignored. For example, look on the Code Snippets board...
There's a stickie on there politely requesting users to state in the topic of their post the version of DB the snippet works with for the benefit of users who only have one or the other - they aren't 100% compatible and can waste a lot of time. (A pet hate of mine I know).
Then look at the number of posts which actually bother to do it. At the time of writing, there are 30 posts where the author couldn't be bothered, or didn't know - because they don't bother reading the stickies.
On TGPF, we just don't want these annoyances and would rather be a serious board.
If someone applies to join and they have behaved on here in a responsible manner then they are more than likely to be accepted. We have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to the rules so anyone who slips through the net will simply be banned the first time they step out of line.
It's not elitist, it's just filtering out the idiots who aren't interested in programming and just want to lark about - removing the annoyances for the rest of the members.
TDK_Man
