[QUOTE]Originally posted by 1337Devil
Great.

I was hoping to find some new info about this hack, which I -really- want to implement but still can't cos nobody is explaining to me how to do so, no everybody is talking about how the Mods and Admins constantly bore the rest by telling people to enter their license info etc. in their profiles.

heh, I have a licence, I am just protesting... lol

I know I have a licence
The people at DigiBuy know
support@jelsoft.com Knows

The whole world does not need my:
Customer Number: 366************
Customer Password: *************d

So please do not speculate or imply I do not have one :)

heh :D

[QUOTE]Originally posted by YourHostSucks
So please do not speculate or imply I do not have one :)
heh :D

heh :) Its all good....

[QUOTE]As for the idea of sending people PM and Email for there license info, you would be surprised at how many software pirates disable these features in their user options.

Guys, they said they're working on it.

Takes time.

Give peace a chance ;)

The developers of the forums only get paid through valid licenses. When they get paid, you get better support. By letting them know you're a paying customer, you're asked to enter your license information in your profile. Piracy can destroy excellent companies and products(as was part of the problem with Looking Glass Studios *sniff* :(), and there's nothing wrong with having them combat piracy as well as they can.

I understand how admins may not trust co-admins with the license information, and there's no reason they should have to give it out. The co-admins can give the main admin their login/password on these forums, and have the admin enter the license information. If the co-admins don't feel comfortable giving out their password, that's what the change password part of the User CP can be used for. Change it, have the license information entered, and change it back.

I think everyone agrees this isn't a perfect system, but for now it will have to do, and as a paying customer I think you should agree this will make things better for everyone(everyone law abiding that is :)). Piracy will be cut down on, prices will drop(we wish ;)), and you'll get better support, to name a few of the benefits.

We are working on a solution at the moment. However it is not something that can be done quickly.
The piracy figures for vB are absolutely astonishing - back when vB 2 was first released, somewhere in the region of 50% of all vB's were pirated. I'm not sure what that figure is now but I doubt it's much lower.
We're doing our best to combat piracy, and this is only one of the things we're doing.

Hehe..

I removed the option for users to NOT allow Admins to mail or PM them. I put all the users that had it turned off before I implemented this change, manually on ON myself, and now no one on my forums can NOT allow me to PM or mail them.

Might be useful for this forum, too :)


and yeah, I feared the piracy figures would be high, but then, they're high for nearly EVERY product on the internet such as vBulletin! Piracy figures for Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro are probably insane... :(



HairyMonster: I think it should rather be something like a profile field that only the vBulletin mods and admins can view, which is something along the lines of

License holder for the following usernames: <input field>

And another one is, for the people in that userfield:

Co-admin or moderator for the forum of Username: <input field 2>


That might work well enough...?

oh and PLEASE don't delete this thread - I need this hack real much and I'm STILL waiting till someone, Anyone, can explain to me how to implement it! :(