I'm all for stating that a hack is not free.

Neo, you have a "holier than thou" attitude which makes you look like an ignorant prick.

merk- the real problem is releasing a hack, leting 40 people download it and install it, then say, "oops, by the way, you can't change ANYTHING on it"

That is arrogance.

Whether or not the hack should be removed is not your decision, but ours.

Very true, Chen.
But since this seems to be a rather hot potatoe right now, maybe you or someone else could give us your view on the topic? I will be happy to follow you guidelines - and right now I think we need some. What is acceptable, what is not. Give us this, and alot of bickering like this will end.

After all, in the end it is you, the admins of the board, that ultimately decide what is acceptable and what is not.
Let's bring closure to this issue. This community is suffering from a few bad apples right now. Sometimes the best thing to do is take a timeout and go have a look at this thing called 'out doors' - not quite sure what it is yet, tho ;).

Thank you for re-opening this thread again, btw.

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Hi,

all I can say is that the vbulletin community would never have become that popular, if all the hacks out there costs money!

If someone did a lot of work to code a hack, then he should advertise his work on his commercial homepage and not here!
Thats all i can say.

Regards
Birdie501

I'm not trying to decide for you, but rather seeing if I'm the only one that saw it as I did. The choice on what to do is up to you, as always is.

If they wish to post they may, but why charge for a hack? Maybe he feels that he isn't being appreciated and would like some compensation to the time he has devoted to creating it?

If you are going to charge for a hack then people will expect some top class support. When you charge it leads to warez etc etc. Giving it away for free is the simpliest solution.

As Chen said its not your decision if it should be removed or not, its that of the staff here.

just let them charge for it...and then everyone else will charge for theirs, then this place will be no more....

oh wait...thats a bad thing.

Well is thats a bad thing then I guess vbulletin should be free aswell. and Overgrow should be banned from the vb sites. I personally thought we had to pay to come here.. so thats makes us "clients" of vbulletin not some low life scum with we are thought of.. unless this isnt a vb related site then its ok... so I have read through the agreements of using vbulletin and now where in there does it say you cant make addons and sell them.. as does it not say any where on this site thats you cannot advertise your addons for sale. Sure you can find it to be bad but if its that bad then you dont have to buy it. But anyways the hack has been removed for other reasons not involving any of this.

heretic: Wow I feel so special, I not once insulted you but stated facts making you look wrong, so you insult me. Good job. And just because I didnt have time to make one for you and then later release the hack makes you cry doesnt it.

neo's been kind of edgy lately, I saw him [better wash my mouth][better wash my mouth][better wash my mouth][better wash my mouth][better wash my mouth] out another member yesterday. Anyways, I think there should be a forum for people to release charged hacks, the full release forum is not an advertising place, but I think there should be.