Alright, alright... I'll admit, I too have had the OP's concern at one point. It went something like this:

"When I make my pwn program, should I include Allegro in the opening loading sequence? Though I don't want to neglect support, I don't want to bring too much attention to the allegro community, it could disrupt my precious virgin internet haven hole."

Ok?! Are you happy now!?

How embarrasing

Later, after late in the afternoon when I got out of bed, I thought it through.

[edit] BUT! If any of you so much as think about doing a pwn with intent to disrupt my precious virgin haven hole, oh there will be consequences... there will be consequences...

Not like I've an appropriate project it could apply to, but I sure second that.

That theory is built on infinite amounts of time. It's also not true - for a typical monkey, certain character sequences are much easier to type than others, which means there might not even be enough entropy in that RNG to produce the works of Shakespeare; instead, they might keep spitting out the same garbage over and over again. Seeing how difficult it is to construct algorithms that produce powerful entropy based on a finit set of initial values (cryptography basically revolves around this single problem), I consider it highly unlikely that any number of real-world monkeys (or hypothetical immortal yet otherwise completely real-world monkeys) would fit the theory.

Even if that were to happen, I doubt such an increase (not even 50%) would hit any serious bottlenecks. 1000% and we might be talking, but even that could easily be remedied by throwing more hardware at it. A factor of 1000, and Matthew might have to think about how to restructure the code to allow it to cope with the traffic - but there is absolutely no way whatsoever we'd be attracting 13 million new users overnight.

Nah. We'll scare them away fast enough.

#allegro wouldn't have any problems with 10 times as many people in there... often there's hours without anyone talking right now.

On the contrary. It was designed to minise jams in mechanical typewriters.

Don't think so. New guys are gonna ask the same questions over and over. If people get seriously tired of asking them, they'll just end up in the FAQ, and people could just answer them with a simple 'RTFM'.

Thats not how the model works at all.
From what I have seen.(From the Begining)

The new guy ask questions.
old cats answers question.
Newer guy asks same question.
the new guy answers question to reinforce his learning.
If new guy does not get it right Old cat steps in.
Or old cat steps in to add additional information.

Edit: i have been monitoring allegro logs and i see there are a lot Mac address that have accounts tied to them but are not loged in an still accessing site content. there are also accounts with 4-5 Mac address tied to them. I have also noticed mac address accessing site content. then years later get accounts linked to them.