Wanna know why this place has gone down the tube? Because its been advertised as a "Computer & Security discussion website", now you might ask what is wrong with that. A few things.
Mainly, it brings the wrong kind of attention, we are getting far too many "How-to" and "Help-me" threads from 1 post users.

This site used to be about discussing the latest in cutting edge computer science, how these developments could affect other parts of the informatics comunity as a whole etc.

If you ask me, I suggest a second forum be set up to branch of the "Help me" crap.