it's a "cash cow" for a lot of coders actually, you just do not see it in front of your eyes...
for one reason: when someone ask a tool to be coded in the paid services requests, 95% of the time you will not have any echoes of the results... the clients keep their secrets, they do not even care to say if they are satisfied or not... because it is their right as a client. for the non-paid requests, i can say frankly that 75% of them are just waited to be reposted in the paid services forum, because the coders here need to get paid to code... even if the credits are good, that does not bring food on their table!
and yes, i actually reign as a moron on this community, my words are not golden, they are diamond... they help you reword your requests to make them more understandable when they are not pointed correctly in the first post...
and i was not focussing on vBookie either, i just did not break the mood by naming other hacks that could need a rehearsal... there is too much of them, and actually they are now to be reworked on my own site.. lol
btw, your opinion about my replies all over the place are just flawed by the fact that you are a client, not an executor... you are not the one who get to work with the clients... it's like when you go to McDonalds, you do not have to suffer the 1000 clients who ask for something that is not on the menu...
you also have to remember one detail: this site is not for freelancers to execute requests, but is a sharing community of coders giving their work for free... so reading all the requests is not the goal of all the coders here. some of the available coders are giving time to answer the requests they think can be possible, that does not mean the bigger projects are abandonned, it just mean the guys have no time to focus on that.
actually, you posted this thread which could be simply added to the existing one here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=192992 ... posted by a coder from the dark side of things, but it's the same kind of comments -- even if you are not refering to free-work, but to the execution of it... it goes in the same path... time, resources, power, credits... all the same reasons that make vb.org a community of sharing, not a freelancing site...