They'd still be able to release stuff but it would be moderated first. Once it had passed moderation then it would work the same as any other release. But as it is mainly non-coders who post questions in the release forums it would help with this.

Lol, that wouldn't change a thing. They would still post, and moderators would still need to move the threads. Only it will add more work for the moderators, since they must now also aprove n hacks posted.

The only change is that members won't see them until moderator action. I personally would prefer the way it is now then, let members report the post if a moderator not saw and moved it before that.

Well I guess thats right. I just hate using the report post function. I think I've only used it twice in all the time I've been coming here.

I've used it a few times, the trouble is that no one responds back to you to say if your report has been seen/actioned. I've had to report things twice more than once.

All reports are seen by all moderators (unless the report is closed by another moderator and you're not interested in looking at it).

Oh we do reply, but you don't see it ;)

It's kind of like the "Report Pirate Boards" with Jelsoft - You report it but never get told the action taken, and just surmise that when a board you suspect is pirate goes offline it's been dealt with ;)

Chris

Could do something like automating the thread title prefix thread combined with a Scheduled Task (cron) that runs through every 15 min or so and if it doesn't see one marked as "released hack" or something, it auto-moves it to a different forum.

You could simply kill two birds with one stone by having a checkbox that says 'This hack complies with the rules for posting hacks' or something like it :-p they need to click it to post a hack, takes milliseconds for real coders to click, and itll hopefully make accidental posters think twice. you could make it complain with javascript, much like missing a title, to pop up a box. not only will this alert people that those forums work differently from the average thread, but also better leverage for disciplining users should they NOT abide by the rules for the hack they post :p and of course a minor server-side check for those who turn off JS.