Well said Shelley, I agree. This is the instant gratification generation... Quick, now, moving on to the next big thing...

I don't see how marking the modification as installed can be a measure of how much your mod is appreciated. If they don't mark it Installed, they don't get automatic notifications of when the mod has been upgraded, bug fixed or when a mod has security issues and needs to be uninstalled or patched. Marking as Installed is for the users benefit, not mine. Sure, you need to know whether your mod is popular enough to bother with anymore. And that's a good enough indicator without being scientifically accurate. But that feature is there for you more then it is there for me.

That's a pretty dang good idea :)

Sometimes I try out a mod only on our beta forums and dont install it on the live forums because it doesnt work properly or isnt to my liking.

I dont install all the mods I download on our live forums. Also as it has been mentioned before I sometimes download a mod more than once.

If I were to click install for all of these then people will get a totally wrong idea about what all I have installed.

Same with me. I used to install a lot of things, but in the last few years I don't really care for a lot of the mods that are put out, but I give them a try. If I like them and decide to leave them, I always come back and click install so I can receive updates if something changes with them.

IMO, that adds an unnecessary step. If someone downloads and installs something without clicking installed, they're the ones with the disadvantage because they'll miss out on e-mails about fixes and enhancements.

The system works fine as it is. unless you have no arms or they miraculously been chopped off or an act of god is at pending status for their removal there's no reason stopping anyone from click the mark as installed.

The system should not be questioned for the lack of laziness and know how. Nothing stops anyone returning to click the mark as installed link once they have familiarized themselves with vbulletin.org

Bah, that's no excuse... you could use your nose to point and click with :p

Why would she do that when she has an army of smilies to do her bidding???

:p

I still wuv you Shelley ;)

Mike

I disagree with forcing users to click the install button.

A better suggestion IMO would be to show a notice at the top of a mod thread when you downloaded it, but you didn't click the install button. Something in the same style as the rating notice. This shouldn't be very difficult to code.

It could also include (a link to) some information about the install button (show appreciation, update notifications, ...). At the moment there's no info page about it. This could be useful for new users.

That is a better suggestion.

The reason I suggested this from the get go is. I know people come here and download our mods just to take them to other sites to share them with people that do not have a vBulletin licence. I really would not like people who do not pay for their software to use my mods. I also know there is really no way to stop it. I started to think about not sharing my mods, but that wouldn't hurt no one all of us who do have legal licence.

This is one of them things we just have to over look.

I actually thought this thread died after Paul spoke and said it would not happen. I didn't mean to stir the pot.