While thechaosengine.com might be a nice site as I cannot judge it from out here. I can understand not allowing posting privileges without some vetting but it

While thechaosengine.com might be a nice site as I cannot judge it from out here. I can understand not allowing posting privileges without some vetting but it looks like they are closing themselves off entirely. Of course they can do what the like as its their site and I'm sure it works wonders for keeping the riffraff out. I've run in to some great sites previously that spread useful information on game development without being closed off but yes they tend to be specialized or have died due to low number of users. Seems like the above approach generates some extra overhead for as well moderators. Some of the posts in the public forum are like "After months still waiting" people saying that there is a huge backlog and admins don't have the time to let people in or someone changed jobs and lost access to the private forums.