Originally posted by: Matthias99
Originally posted by: Lifted
Maybe they are going to launch the forum along side a new section of AT for reviews of programming languages, etc.?
That would be nice, but in that case:
1) I'd rather have the forum now and the other other stuff later, and
2) They could just say so, and everyone would shut up (at least for a while
).
The only other reasons I can think of are they feel that there are enough good forums covering this topic out there already and concerns over additional resources need to support a new topic (storage, processing, bandwidth, mods, etc.). Think of all of the code that will get posted, back and forth, quoted, etc.
Theoretically, they're already supporting this topic now. I can't see it requiring enormous amounts of extra bandwidth (compared to, say, the volume in ATOT and/or P&N), and I wouldn't think that separating the topics currently in the "software" forum would make moderating them much easier, not harder. And again, if the bottleneck is that they will need another moderator or two, why not ask for volunteers?
Maybe they are even worried about having to police for malicious code, there are after all a lot of youngsters and noobs on AT who can become easy pray to @ssholes.
This is a legit concern, but there's nothing stopping people from posting dangerous code/links to WinXP keygenerators/links to kiddie porn/whatever in the forums now. In fact, in a dedicated programming forum, someone would quickly point out that "hey, this is a script that will delete your hard drive; don't run it" or whatever.
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