To enforce a valid coding style in the community!

[amykhar]

I would much rather see peer support and friendly help than a standards committee. When you drop by my threads and make an improvement suggestion, I consider that team-work and community spirit.

If you form a committee that slaps labels on stuff, it would have a negative connotation to me.

Let's look at WHY people release code here. I release code for three primary reasons.
1. I've done the work anyway, might as well share.
2. I'm giving back because others have helped me
3. I am looking for others to contribute and improve upon my original concept. People use the code in different ways or dream up different features. Sometimes, that makes the code more robust and I benefit from the ideas of others.

BUT there are huge downsides to releasing here as well. We get a lot of people who don't read even the very first post of the thread and then ask the same question over and over. We get people who don't follow install instructions and then yell "bug!". We get people who get ticked off when we don't make all kinds of goofy changes to the code that would benefit nobody but the person who is getting ticked off.

This place needs to be fun and sociable if anybody is going to stick around. Yes, let's improve the code. We can all learn from each other. But, lets do it in a less judgemental way.

Amy