why are "programming" and "games" in the same forum?

[mjquilly]

it seems highly illogical to have these two grouped together.

"how do i do this in java"
and
"dood, what's the coolest game of the last 5 years"

just don't seem to go together.

 

[mjquilly]

ahh, my first double post, and it's a triple post. that can happen by only hitting submit once?

 

[mjquilly]

ahh, my first double post, and it's a triple post. that can happen by only hitting submit once?

 

[mjquilly]

ahh, my first double post, and it's a triple post. that can happen by only hitting submit once?

 

[mjquilly]

i logged out and back on, hopefully i don't have to repot a triple posting issue in here now...

 

[mjquilly]

i logged out and back on, hopefully i don't have to repot a triple posting issue in here now...

 

[mjquilly]

i logged out and back on, hopefully i don't have to repot a triple posting issue in here now...

 

[mjquilly]

rebooted my computer, tested in private forums, and i think i'm ok now.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Haha, that's funny stuff

Anyways, I would strongly agree. I would LOVE to have a programming forum, I think it would definitely help to spur conversation, whereas now it is stifled, due to being scattered among video game and software posts. There are a number of members who are programmers, however, the general "vibe" of anandtech doesn't seem conducive to programming and development, it's much more of a hardware and general chat board. Ho hum.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Haha, that's funny stuff

Anyways, I would strongly agree. I would LOVE to have a programming forum, I think it would definitely help to spur conversation, whereas now it is stifled, due to being scattered among video game and software posts. There are a number of members who are programmers, however, the general "vibe" of anandtech doesn't seem conducive to programming and development, it's much more of a hardware and general chat board. Ho hum.

I would definitely agree also. A programming forum would be very good.

Maybe we could even convince the admins to enable the fixed-width formatting tag if a separate Programming forum was created.

 

[Haden]

I would like to have it too.