How would they find the old snippet? Can you give me a query that still returns the answer or the old snippet?
Besides, when it really breaks, I can easily change the question, but I guess we’ll be safe for a year or so.
raises hand 15 here as well. I took a year of Java classes before coming here though ;D
I agree with Riven and everyone else who likes the current test system. Keeps spammers out, and keeps people who haven’t even started to learn Java out. There are other Java forums (which aren’t dedicated to gaming) that people can go and get help learning the language. I also agree that making a game probably isn’t the first thing you should do when you are first learning to program.
I agree with that question things. Keep up.
I guess it is kinda nice to find a forum that has a fair balance to its user base. Enough people that have active unique topics, but not enough to hear programming 101 questions.
Have you guy’s really been having issues with automated breaches recently?
SMF is a widely known piece of forum software, so yes, that pretty much guarantees a constant stream of attack. Not breaches though, unless your definition of a breach is that a spammer littered the forum with nonsense.
The last successful attack of JGO was about 6 months ago, and such an attack is now impossible, due to the lack of moderators and admins on this forum – with the password of a moderator, you can take over the entire forum, execute code on the server, and what not… yay for SMF.
true, that’s what got me into joining the forum. Seems like it has a small but big enough for my taste user base where the forum is not overwhelmed with topics. It’s nice.
I remember back in my early mid teen yrs I was playing around with a C++ interpreted language game creation tool and I would visit the forums often enough to always find the same beginner questions being posted over and over again facepalm… gladly though a mod eventually started make a sticky of topics that answered questions that were asked frequently.
And yet even on those forums, people will still continue to ask the same question 100 times a year.
Especially with a forum littered with people who all have under 10 posts.
You should add a whining section where the people that can’t answer the question can still cry :). It will probably be filled with spam.
A tutorial to help newb to enter the forum would be great too?
Nice, Forum DRM lol jk but if it stops spam I believe it to be a good thing. Also just like everyone says, all it is doing is stopping the people whom are going to come in, ask how to make a game and then realize its not easy and leave.
But this is exactly the first thing I did 
Newbs being able to register easily
vs.
Riven’s mental health
I think keeping the admin sane is a better choice, anyone who has dealt with massive influx of spambots on their forums knows how frustrating it is. Besides, I think registering should be a slight challenge to filter out nonsense people.
I definately agree, It’s been so nice last half a year that whenever I click “unread posts” I don’t get a ton of spam things in there.
Mike
I said probably 
I don’t mean that it’s impossible simply that someone who doesn’t know the Java syntax would probably have trouble tying together all the things that go into a game. Graphics, Threads, Loops, Images, etc. I took a year of Java classes and it only taught me the language basics, I still had to figure out how to make a game loop, how to load images, how to make a thread, how to load a font and so on. But I knew enough to get in here and get help. I was also smart enough to try to look things up on Google when I didn’t know something simple ;D