[Freddie Bingham]

There are only two instances of where we have used contributed code.

The original Poll hack by Doron was integrated (in 1.x I believe). The second instance is when I integrated Overgrow's Karma. In both instances this was only done after the author granted permission.

We do not look at the source of your modifications. Frankly, we do not need to view your source code to be able to program a feature that serves the same purpose. Customers ask for features, we add them to the internal feature list and rank them. We then go down the list adding the features. I am sure that some of these requests come from customers that saw such a feature here and they serve as the middleman. We don't come trolling here looking for ideas, as we have no shortage of ideas. If we used this website for our ideas, then why don't we have RPG addons, uCash, Arcade, and all the other popular hacks? With 3.6 we simply added items that were requested frequently on vBulletin.com. I think you'll find the infraction system doesn't function like the Warning System hacks. That is because I programmed it with my own goals, not basing it on anything that was already established. Hence people complain that it doesn't actually change usergroups like the hacks.

Why are we being accused of stealing a signature limiting system when phpBB had the same thing before any hack existed on this forum? I've long suggested that we must limit signature images by forcing them to be uploaded like Avatars. It was on the 2.x todo list but didn't make the cut.

Just look here.

I couldn't tell you what the most popular hacks are or what gets installed often. Part of the problem with this website is that we (developers) do not browse this website very often and have no idea what is going on here. I only found this thread because Zachery pointed it out to me. Please don't be so quick off the handle to accuse us of theft. We have rather high standards and would have to quit before we would ever use anyone else's code again.

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