What if a paid product was put into this hypothetical forum - and was then later discovered to have serious security vulnerabilities which lead to the exploitation or destruction of several forums. vB.org (Jelsoft) could then be held liable for endorsing or advertising this product, or for even allowing it to have been on the forum at all.

At least with the Request for Paid Services forum, any blame rests solely on the individual who took up the request, not on Jelsoft or vB.org. With a forum like the one you're suggesting, blame would rest on BOTH Jelsoft/vB.org (for allowing the product to be published here) and whoever the product's developer was (for the existence of the exploit).

I fail to see this liability that you think would have, but we can all agree to disagree.

Maybe but unlikely.

- You're neither endorsing or advertising brand vB if paid services are offered here.
- Modifications that are verfied as unsafe are usually removed quickly by the staff. There is no reason to suggest that it will be different if the (hypothetical) forum is up.
- The game changes if either organization takes a cut from revenue gained of a product by percentage, tax, royalty, lease and so forth.

I am not saying that there are no issues with liability. If you want to find a reason, you will. However, it doesn't matter to me either way. I'm just responding to the above quote.

looks like a dead-end again...

vBulletin.org is a site about sharing among vBulletin owners free advice. Advertising commercial products in any form is not what we want.

Closing thread.