The general dev section has always been private and will remain so. It's automatically available to members of game specific dev groups or to people who have asked for access and met the requirements.
Oh.
It seems I might have known this at some point and forgotten...but for some reason it keeps sticking in my mind that section was marked public/registered user as after all it was "General" and not game specific.
Age?
I go this fall to a Social Security hearing for my disability from back in 2002...so who knows?
What about the other sections I brought up that clearly have been open until the forums reboot (i would suppose that is when this happened) ?
Is it a software glitch, a missed pushed button or is it the new rule about them (sections) needing a Moderator beyond what us Administrators do for for each section?
I don't really see any need for a Moderator for the "TKC Clan,The Polling Station, World Teamkill Championship 2010" sections and I thought Raven Heckler as well as Mr. Medic both are Mods in the Random Insanity section.
Besides the extended offline time we experienced,all the search engine spiders and crawlers are missing sections which point to TKC which are now no longer viewable other than to Staff.
I can remember only a few short years ago that the YAHOO search engine had our site listed at/near the top of the first search page.
Yes the whole World follows TKC...it would be nice in my mind if they still could 100%.