So I am working together with a junior moderator to hopefully make a good unified STICKY for this forum.

If anyone has advice/things they would like to see in it LMK.

I am thinking:


1: BIG reminder to people to use google for simple requests

2: BIG reminder to people about what sort of questions are good questions to ask (and maybe how to better form them)

3: Reminders to ALWAYS post relevant source code / errors / logic misunderstandings

4: Big notice about WHAT topics should be posted here (IE: not video card help / fix my game crash / etc)

5: *POSSIBLY* outside links to useful sites, if they are allowed.



This way, instead of responding to every bad thread w/ GOOGLE THIS or WRONG FORUM, just point people to the sticky instead.

Let me know what you want to add.

How about explain what "Absolutely NO linking to outside projects or exe files!" classifies something as a project

because I've posted a *.application file and got a warn for "linking to binary files"

also
if I can't post a link to a project, then there shouldn't be requests for people to code them anything, at all
unless it's help with code and someone has already posted their code
even then, a jsp user could just insert something like <iframe src="http://www.maliciouscontent.com"></iframe> into something they threw together for them
or other malicious code given what they're working on
there really is no stopping someone from doing that unless the end-user reads through all of this code before slapping it in and compiling, which let's be honest rarely happens

and of course I have my list here:
http://www.cryingantlion.com/programs/mylistforjsp.html


e/
now mod who reads this pls authorize all my links thx

e/e/
how about mods who know about programming instead of ones who leave useless threads open for weeks and close anything where someone gets flamed, time to grow up

This post was edited by 0n35 on Dec 24 2013 08:44am

This is a good idea, this sf could really use a remodel of sticky's. This should also be a living document, not a one-time "set it and forget it" type of post. I think you need a purpose though, and then ideas will come in. Is this just supposed to be a list of rules, or is the idea for it to be more than that?

What's an authorized way to share/show source code? Are we allowed to pastebin in and post the link? Or is the expectation to post here only what we think is the relevant chunk of code? I'm not sure how may people would try to use this as their primary support tool, but it's still good to know the right way to post.

Not sure if anyone else cares, but there is no differentiation here between scripting and programming. This is useful knowledge for those folks who ask questions like "what language should I learn?".

Ditch the auto-it sticky. Mmbot is dead, that community and program are no longer applicable and auto-it shouldn't be shunned anymore. It's a legit scripting language that I (and many other people) use almost daily at work and deserves the proper attention. Keep the forbidden purposes parts, but ditch the choice to single out auto-it in particular.

I don't see a problem with people asking simple questions and not just googling it because they probably don't know the proper terminology they should be googling for, and the programming forums are so dead, even simple questions are better than going days (sometimes weeks) without seeing any new posts.

Getting people to post less in these forums is a bad idea imo.

If you would rather have this subforum be a place called google.com, why don't you go to another forum where that is the goal?
My outlook on this subforum is for more interesting programming topics to be discussed, and I don't see that happening if you have 5 threads/week about "ermagerd how i lern pregremerng?"