Something has been bugging me, and I think it might be because I'm old, intolerant and generally a crank.
It seems many of the posts in the "Programming" forums can be classified as follows:
1) The mahoosive question.
These are characterised by the "Can somebody write a fps for me please" type questions.
Rather than learning to program the poster wants the complete source for a game.
2) My bad.
These are characterised by "I've written this code and it's not a FPS and look there are already 200 lines, there is a bug in dark basic! I want my money back!"
followed by:
"oh, my bad, there's a stupid error on line 6"
3) I don't know what I want, but what is the answer?
These are characterised by "I want something sort of maybe like, you know, that thing, where it......."
No real question....
4) Interesting.....?
Finally a properly formed question about programming.
Maybe the forums should be subdivided for:
Newbie Programming Questions
Newbie IDE/Dark Basic Questions
Algorythm Questions
Advanced Games/Dark Basic Topics (BSP etc)
and the the moderators could keep each area on topic?
I'm rambling now, none of the above is really what I think, just a sharp/unfair charicature of my opinion in order to promote discussion....
