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Originally Posted by Dean C

You are talking out of your backside mate. No threads from that forum are indexed in google, it was started fresh, a blank slate...

Dean, you're completely wrong in this case. The forum was openly viewable for quite some time, prior to it being made private. The threads within were archived, the archive was indexed and web searches still return those threads. However, the code within cannot be viewed unless you're a member here. Try to access those pages through the site, though, and you get a "You're not authorized" screen. This is provably and demonstrably true; I PM'd Xenon and Erwin about it, and finally had to contact the thread-starter privately in one instance.

Revan, I'd respond to your latest, but really can't keep a straight face long enough.

I see all the same problems:

A private Coders Discussion, with no compelling reason for it to be private. This serves to create attitudes like those clearly in evidence in this thread, causes the "public" coding forums to receive little attention, and puts undue emphasis on the "competing for Installs" amateur coding mentality vs. the true hacker coding ethic of open discussion.

A moderation staff that barely moderates, and who in fact seem to be responsible for most of the inane chatter that goes on, and who've never established and don't enforce professional standards of communication and conduct. While you cannot enforce lucidity or rational thought, you could at least do something about profanity and off-topic comments.

Until JelSoft gets the house in order here, they shouldn't refer people to this site.