The fact that we can still read that thread sums up the problem - I can't believe that no action was taken on those posts, I would have removed the posts, and/or severely warned the poster. Just no need for such ignorance, esp in such large bold letters.

problems with such posts is that the moderators here are not numerous enough to make follow ups on bad-attitude members, and they can't ban only for a single sentence that was stupid or so...

this is a community for supporting and sharing... maybe some guys think they can play like on a off topic forum, and i hate that myself... they all forget that we're here for fun, not for fight.

EDIT:

i have a point about why this site have problems actually: the main goal of this community was to share codes and hacks... but as the members count grown, the sharing was transformed in support and had a "branch-like" of a friendship community...

this is not a code-repository anymore, and by that, we have to face other kinds of discussions, other languages with sometimes a lot of differences in the education of the participants...

I agree....I have no issue with that. The problem is that many of the hacks haven't been ported.

Yours all have - for which I am eternally grateful. But there are many that haven't and one is met with derision when requesting them.

This issue *urgently* needs sorted, so that people like me can perform our upgrade without losing dozens of features.

Wow...and he purports to be a Christian...yeh.

My two cents and it's not meant to offend or anything, but not much in life is free...why not learn to code and port things on your own...that's what I did and I'm no genius by any means.

Now that gets very close to the main reason for a lot of attitude problems around here lately in my opinion.

I've learned as much as I physically can. I have to work for a living and I don't have the time to learn everything I'd need to know. Running my forum takes several hours a day as it is. There just isn't enough time.

Here's another good example:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....79&postcount=2

Is there really any need for all that crap about ignore lists?

What the hell is happening to this place?

I saved the following quoted text from a group management forum some six years ago, or so... Back then, we all managed a maillist... but as you can see, the same dynamics hold true for our online forum communities today.

I always thought it was helpful for new admins/mods to be aware how groups continue to evolve and change over time. So I always kept this with a few other resources for new staff members to read through.

What's described as a problem stage for long-running communities seems to apply to us here, as well.

LOL.. Psionic's banlist grow day by day... each time someone make fun of that thread actually.. lol (i suppose Mark.B is now in.. lol)

and yes, offending posts by coders that are bored of answering questions have to be dropped... i think that if a coder is bored of answering questions does NOT have to release a thing... this is not a coder's community, but a place to share... on all levels.

Quite right...nothing against Psionic, but I neither know nor care whether he has me on ignore, since with an attitude like he has, I wouldn't install his hack anyhow.

I currently use vBStatistik, forgot the author but he hasn't ported it to 3.5...never mind.

... using the hacks from someone that have a bad attitude is not wrong, not-using it for the attitude IS wrong... these codes are made to be available, support given or not...

i don't support my hacks anymore, due to the fact that i'm a father at home... i can't code and hug my kids at the same time...

but when people are asking for support and the guy released a code and is giving support, answering with a frustrated attitude is never good, because it gives a bad idea of the entire community, AND give a bad image of the product itself...