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Originally Posted by nexialys

imagine the impact, you just read a thread among a lot of threads... on my side, i work on parenting forums all the time, and on other kind of sites too, and most of the admins i know are knot in rings or communities, and when one of them is scammed by "Scammer Not Polite", the information is spread largely... jut one event can be multiplied by 100 if the person post in public groups... and that's something i have seen a lot... i also seen a lot of the opposite, found my name and some others in these rings as a good person which we can discuss with a lot...

everything is possible... but changing the format here was debated so much times... each time we hear from a scammer or a coder who try to advertise his work, we start a new run... and it close as soon as a concensus is made...

While i agree nexia with most of the things, but i think its a bit unfair if the coders are blamed all the time also. Many clients that come here are an impatient lot. How many people who code are actually full time coders? Not many and most of the time the people who request service will expect the product delivered in a couple of days. Unless its your full time job, you can sometimes exceed your deadlines. Then the requests keep changing in the middle of the project(not everyone does it but quite a few do) If you refuse, you have a -ve rep coming. Now fact of life is that you usually won't get the +ve feedback always posted but if someone is unhappy he will be sure to post it(prime example is the web hosting business).
I think if you are talking here as a community, then realize that there might not be full time coders around, only those who do it when they have the time to code or when they want to code. Most of the people would be running their own websites, doing a day job and sometimes coding.
If you are looking for professional coders, full time ones, there are indeed plenty of freelance websites around. However then you are also restricting yourself to be answered by a few who will be a lot busier. It should be the clients responsibility to select the best deal he gets. Anywhere he gets it.

Originally Posted by Dismounted

Because it is not the focus of this site. vBulletin.org's primary objective is to encourage the sharing of modifications and ideas.

Well that might indeed be true and thats great, but if you allow a user feedback in the paid requests(where the client can post a feedback on the work done) then in my opinion you can also allow those opinions to be posted in a central location where its easier to see them for the future clients if they select that coder/(or the other way round, that client's feedback to be seen by the coder). At the end of the day you do ask clients to search for the coder and his rep before you select him. Won't it be better to make the job easier by having the feedback(whoever does leave it) to be at a central place rather than user doing a forum search which might not reveal all the feedback(or any!). Such feedback display can be limited to certain sections only or only in the user profile. Just my opinion.