Titles, points, postcounts etc dun mean nuts imho, other than an ego boost for some odd people.

Perhaps a scheme which makes paid service requests more transparent ?
A member posts a request. Upon obtaining a Coder to help, member will need to fill up a field in the service request thread stating which Coder is handling the job. The Coder then will need to ack in the same thread, else it is not considered valid and offer is considered open. Upon completion of work, Coder fills up a field ( "Work completed" ), and Member has to acknowledge in the thread....

Hmm...ok it's late and i dun really know where i am going with this ....... :D

IMO hate should be punished on this site (block him from viewing that forum until he publically apologizes?)

Anyway I think a user feedback system similar to eBays would be really good here.

That's a bit extreme considering no one actually knows why he/she has been missing (for no more than a few days I might add). The fact is that in real life people can suddenly find themselves called away for a period of time.

I'm a mean person. :D At the very least one of the mods/admins should talk to him and sort out the problem. Remember that this isn't the first time he's unable to finish after he got paid!

Just my useless opinion. :)

This is the second complaint against this guy, in both cases he never gave them a heads up to anything from the sounds of it. If he's going to accept their money and not meet a timeline then it's his responsibility to at least give them a reasonable explanation.

I personally would like to see it such that people earn the right to see others service requests. By that I mean til you have reached a certain criteria within the forum (perhaps 100 posts, 30days registration and perhaps if we enabled reputation that you receieved reputation x times) then you will be able to see others service requests.

True, and those complaints are exactly one week apart. That shows that he has been active and has had access to a PC durring those times which he should of gave the members a prompt reason to why he hasn't even started on the jobs. So I seriously doubt that its because he was away on buisness, family problems, etc. Plain and simple, this is a case of take and run. *BAN*

normally they are specialized things that i need and i dont feel like typing up install instuctions and making an install file and those types of things

Its simple but your dealing with people who are lazy. Why dont vb themselves take on the work like any NORMAL programming company.

Read my signature.... Im only here because vb.com insists on me coming over to this dam site. Even if its just to talk. talk about it at vb.org like anyone is going to respond.

I give props to the 3 (YES 3) users that helpped me here. I helped a few when I could but its tooo head swelly up in here.
screw that.

This site in it self is a perversion. These are the people that make vb yet if you use the stuff they host you loose support of the inital software you bought.

its like apple pirating music off thier website... a little extream but the logic is the same. why host something you do not condone?
That alone should show you who your dealing with...
Oh god then you get other people like photopost.
This guy swears he is god to the net.
More like god should tie him up in one.

Whether or not people are lazy has no bearing on this thread whatsoever. The issue here is 'should the Service Request forum be more tightly restricted' not 'I want vB to support hacked boards and/or release versions with major additions to the code'.

The post linked to in your signature only points out, multiple times, that you have been informed that vbulletin.com support is voided by modification of the source code...a normal policy to have in place because otherwise the cost of support would go through the roof and those majority of people with unhacked vBulletin installations would have to bear the increase in their fees.

Personally, I'd remove it if it was in my signature...just makes you look silly.