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Coin
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I don't remember when exactly we made the change, but when I look at the last 15 threads in the Computer Science forum I see exactly one of them is about anything you could reasonably call "computer science". Besides this one computer science thread, one is a programming thread and one is a math and science software thread. The rest are about general computing topics, things like how do I get my video card or joystick to work.
I think that having a "Computer Science" forum which is not actually about computer science is worse than having no computer science forum at all. If there is no computer science forum people with real computer science questions will probably just post them in "programming" or the sets/logic math forum-- but personally I would find the situation of there being a CS forum where no actual CS discussion seems to be taking place as a discouragement to posting anything on the subject at all.
I think it is too bad "programming" is not a top-level forum anymore, but I'm sure you all have your reasons. So if this is the way we are going to do things I think you should name the top-level, not-really-CS forum just "Computer discussion" or something.
I think that having a "Computer Science" forum which is not actually about computer science is worse than having no computer science forum at all. If there is no computer science forum people with real computer science questions will probably just post them in "programming" or the sets/logic math forum-- but personally I would find the situation of there being a CS forum where no actual CS discussion seems to be taking place as a discouragement to posting anything on the subject at all.
I think it is too bad "programming" is not a top-level forum anymore, but I'm sure you all have your reasons. So if this is the way we are going to do things I think you should name the top-level, not-really-CS forum just "Computer discussion" or something.