[Revan]

I can't say much about the "glory days" as the only memory of vBulletin I had before joining here was when I installed a pirated vB2 on my site and was in awe at how much better it was than wBB, but I took it down because I was too scared of getting legal letters...


About the graphics sections, my opinion is divided.
For one I completely understand how it takes the focus away from the coding, which is what the core of this site was. But on the other hand, it's sort of frustrating for users (ie non-hackers/designers) to have to register on three sites in order to get everything official vBulletin has to offer. vBcom, vBorg and vBTemp.
I suppose this could be remedied by allowing the graphics sections to be completely hidden, similar to the 3.0 and 2.0 forums can (or should) be.

Your post elaborates on something I said in one of the drama threads, something like "What makes a newbie into a hacker? Willpower and motivation. The newbie is responsible for the willpower, vBorg is responsible for the motivation."
I use the term newbie meaning someone new to this site.

What do you propose we do about whiners? I mean people like in the "for those who have left" thread who can do nothing but put down every single attempt the staff does at accomodating the hackers' wishes.

What do you propose we do about offering motivation? Not everybody releases their work because they use it on the site. To use myself as an example, I used to work on the RPG because I used it on my forum, but now I dont have one and therefore that motivation is lost. I only not quit working on the hack because Id feel bad about saying "well sod this, Im out.", so do you have any solution as to providing motivation to keep coming back to code?

Hope to hear more on this, and pray this thread be free of lamers.