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Originally Posted by Freesteyelz

Hehe. Well the flip-side of it is that if the instructions were clear enough, you wouldn't get the redundant questions on the how-to.

AAAAAAAAAMEN to that!

Originally Posted by Ntfu2

I think its a better idea for noobies to learn vBulletin better so you can understand the hard to follow instructions.

and how do you propose they do that if they don't have good instructions to follow? Learning vBulletin comes from experience. Not having clear instructions is frustrating. You were a brand new vB user at one time, remember?

Originally Posted by j1mmy

The only way you cant learn it, is by getting a good set of instructions a few times, and then next time you will know what to do without needing such a detialed set.

Exactly

Originally Posted by kall

I agree here. It shouldn't be the job of the coder to teach people the utter basics of vBulletin.

Noone is saying it's the coders job to teach anyone anything. But creating a modification, then offering a set of CLEAR install instructions (especially if it's more detailed than just a xml upload and one or two template changes) is just common sense.

Originally Posted by Freesteyelz

I think hacks should (also) be categorized by Unsupported and Supported.

Absolutely agree

Originally Posted by Freesteyelz

.........implement a difficulty rating system, which can be selected by the author while setting up the first post, such as:

Level: Beginners
Level: Moderate
Level: Advanced
Level: Don't even bother...

There are many users here, novice to advanced, who are willing to learn if given the opportunity.

EXCELLENT. I've said this before in another thread. phpBB has their hack/mods database set up this way. In that respect (their hack/mod database), they are FAR ahead of vB.